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TunnelBear pricing
TunnelBear publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $9.99/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
TunnelBear plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Unlimited | $9.99/month | 3 | +$9.99/month, 3 more features |
| Teams | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 2gb of data per month, access to vpn servers, unlimited devices.
Unlimited
$9.99/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Unlimited monthly data
- All server locations
- Cheaper on annual/3-year billing
Teams
On requestOver Unlimited, this tier adds:
- Unlimited data
- 5 connected devices per user
- Dedicated account manager
- Centralized billing and management
Where TunnelBear stops being free
Free, Free
- 2GB of data per month
- Access to VPN servers
- Unlimited devices
Unlimited, $9.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Unlimited monthly data
- All server locations
- Cheaper on annual/3-year billing
What the product covers
The full TunnelBear feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
security
- Encrypted VPN tunnel
- GhostBear obfuscation
core
- Server location switching
- Browser extensions
- Teams account management
People bring TunnelBear in for casual browsing protection on public wi-fi, occasional geo-unblocking with a light free allowance, bypassing network-level vpn blocking via obfuscation, managing vpn access for a small team with centralized billing. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to TunnelBear are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for TunnelBear
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
TunnelBear runs on windows, mac, linux, ios, android, and is published by TunnelBear. The full record is on the TunnelBear review.
TunnelBear pricing questions
- How much does TunnelBear cost?
- TunnelBear publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Teams. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does TunnelBear have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 2gb of data per month, access to vpn servers, unlimited devices. Paying starts at $9.99/month for Unlimited.
- What is the difference between Free and Unlimited on TunnelBear?
- Unlimited costs $9.99/month against Free, and adds unlimited monthly data, all server locations, cheaper on annual/3-year billing.
- Is the Teams plan on TunnelBear worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is unlimited data, 5 connected devices per user, dedicated account manager, centralized billing and management. It costs On request against $9.99/month for Unlimited. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with TunnelBear?
- The record lists 5 features across 2 areas: security, core. In practice it is brought in for casual browsing protection on public wi-fi, occasional geo-unblocking with a light free allowance, bypassing network-level vpn blocking via obfuscation.
- Does TunnelBear charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these TunnelBear prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare TunnelBear against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to TunnelBear to make a useful price comparison.