How much does Windscribe cost?

Windscribe publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $9/month for Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Free and Build-A-Plan on Windscribe?

Build-A-Plan costs $3/month against Free, and adds pay per selected server location ($1/location), $3 minimum purchase, unlimited data on selected locations.

Is the Pro plan on Windscribe worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is unlimited data, 69+ countries, $69/year on annual billing. It costs $9/month against $3/month for Build-A-Plan. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?

1 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Windscribe have a free tier: Google Authenticator.

Does Windscribe 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 Windscribe 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 Windscribe against before paying?

The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Hanwha Vision, BeyondTrust, Feedzai, IDnow. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Windscribe covering price, platforms and features.

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Windscribe pricing

Windscribe 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.

As of 29 August 2026, Windscribe pricing is free, then $3/month across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free, then $3/month
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Windscribe 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.

Windscribe pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	3	Entry tier
Build-A-Plan	$3/month	3	+$3/month, 3 more features
Pro	$9/month	3	+$6/month, 3 more features

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

The entry tier. It covers 10gb of data per month with confirmed email, 10 server countries, unlimited devices.

Build-A-Plan

$3/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Pay per selected server location ($1/location)
$3 minimum purchase
Unlimited data on selected locations

Pro

$9/month

Over Build-A-Plan, this tier adds:

Unlimited data
69+ countries
$69/year on annual billing

Where Windscribe stops being free

Free, Free

10GB of data per month with confirmed email
10 server countries
Unlimited devices

Build-A-Plan, $3/month

The first thing you pay for:

Pay per selected server location ($1/location)
$3 minimum purchase
Unlimited data on selected locations

What the product covers

The full Windscribe 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

Firewall / default block
R.O.B.E.R.T. content blocker

core

Unlimited simultaneous devices
Build-A-Plan
Static IP and port forwarding add-ons

People bring Windscribe in for running a free vpn across unlimited personal devices, buying access to just a few specific server locations cheaply, blocking ads and trackers at the dns level while browsing, preventing ip leaks with a default-block firewall rule. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Windscribe are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Cybersecurity

Too few cybersecurity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Windscribe entry price against other Cybersecurity tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Windscribe (this page)	Free, then $3/month	freemium	-
Hanwha Vision	On request	One-time purchase	-	vs Windscribe
BeyondTrust	On request	quote	-	vs Windscribe
Feedzai	On request	quote	-	vs Windscribe
IDnow	On request	quote	-	vs Windscribe
Eagle Eye Networks	On request	Per camera per month	-	vs Windscribe
iDenfy	On request	Per verification	-	vs Windscribe

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Windscribe badges page.

Before you pay for Windscribe

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 $9/month, 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.

Windscribe runs on windows, mac, linux, ios, android, web, and is published by Windscribe. The full record is on the Windscribe review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.

Windscribe pricing on the vendor's own site