Surfshark vs PureVPN

Both of these compete on the two-year price, and both have something behind the price that the buyer usually finds out afterwards. This comparison is mostly about deciding which of those you would rather carry.

Cheap on a long prepayment, both of them

Surfshark's advertised rate covers twenty-seven months and then roughly doubles. PureVPN's covers twenty-seven months too, and it sells port forwarding and a dedicated address as extras on top rather than including them. Neither price is the price.

Surfshark places no cap on simultaneous devices, which is its strongest single argument. PureVPN allows ten. Both ship apps down to televisions, both have obfuscation and ad blocking, and both are cheap enough that the money is unlikely to decide this.

What each one leaves out

Surfshark's kill switch allowed traffic through after a restart under testing, and it does not support IPv6 — the guidance is to disable IPv6 on your network rather than have the VPN handle it. PureVPN's kill switch holds and it protects IPv6, which are two concrete points in its favour.

PureVPN's problem is history rather than engineering. In 2017 it supplied a customer's connection records to the FBI while advertising a no-logs policy. Its fourth assessment ran in February 2023 and the pages describing it no longer name the firm that did it. Its servers also do not run from memory, where Surfshark's whole fleet does with nothing written to disk.

On current evidence Surfshark is clearly ahead: Deloitte assessed its servers in June 2025 and a separate firm tested the network that December. Jurisdiction runs the other way — PureVPN is a British Virgin Islands company outside every intelligence agreement, and Surfshark is in the Netherlands, inside the fourteen-country one.

PureVPN's speed has not been measured on the bench the other entries use; the independent figure available puts it around a fifth slower. Surfshark is quick.

Which should you choose?

Choose Surfshark if recent, named audits and a memory-only fleet matter more than a documented disclosure from 2017, and you will verify the kill switch yourself after a reboot. Choose PureVPN if a kill switch that holds and IPv6 handled properly are what you came for, and you have read the 2017 case and decided the intervening years answer it.

If neither trade appeals, that is a reasonable conclusion, and Windscribe is the cheaper long-term option with neither problem attached.