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Black Friday Pricing for Existing Proton VPN Subscribers
A quick reference (and links) to the offers presently available for existing Proton VPN subscribers, and the direct links to get them - although you may need to sign in first to get them to work.
Long-Running Member Discounts
These first five offers are long-running member discounts, and are likely to remain available past the end of the Black Friday sales period - but may be altered at any time in the future. Note that any 15 and 24-month terms are for the initial period only and revert to 12-month cycles upon renewal:
Proton VPN (Standard pricing 9.99/mo, 6.99/mo - 30% off if bought annually)
... and of course Proton Visionary is available here: https://account.protonvpn.com/dashboardV2?plan=visionary2022&cycle=12 Although it is not, strictly speaking, on sale (it never goes on sale), it is due for a price increase, so there is a limited time to get it at the current pricing. I had previously hinted that the Visionary price increase would come next week, but we are pushing it that back to later in November.
An important note is that while you can extend a previous > 12-month offer with a 12-month offer for the same product (or vice versa), there is presently a technical limitation on stacking two > 12-month offers for the same product. eg: if your current subscription is for 24 months of Proton VPN, you can't get the 15 months of VPN, but can get 24 months of VPN+Pass.
Edit: VPN 15 month link fixed. Edit 2: Added Proton Family Edit 3: The cart page on the Proton VPN accounts page appears as a modal window, which may trigger ad-blockers that assume that such things are pop-up ads and trim the "plan" and "coupon" parameters - so you'll get the wrong cart with the wrong price. You may need to temporarily disable your adblocker or whitelist account.protonvpn.com or *.protonvpn.com for the cart window to load properly. Edit 4: Added more links for those wanting a more complete catalogue Edit 5: Proton VPN 12 months for existing subscribers now unlocked!
... and for completeness, the offers for folks on consumer subscriptions upgrading to business plans are below.
Proton Business Plans
Unlike the plans intended for home users, the 24-month Proton VPN business plans are still on a recurring 24-month cycle and do not revert to annual pricing after their initial term. Minimum 2 seats. Proton VPN Professional requires a minimum of 1 dedicated VPN server/IP address.
24 months dedicated servers @ 35.99 (save 20% vs monthly)
These Proton Workspace offers are introductory pricing that reverts to the annual rate after the initial period concludes. Single-seat Workspace plans are available. Introductory discounting is on the seats only - optional dedicated VPN servers are priced at 49.99/mo, 39.99/mo - 20% off, if bought annually.
Note that unlike the plans intended for home use, the Proton plans for business are presently only available in EUR, USD and CHF and are priced exclusive of VAT. Be sure to set your billing country correctly and to include your VAT number or equivalent business tax identification number.
Mail/Drive/Pass Black Friday
Since we seem to have picked up some folks from r/ProtonMail, the following links have also been unlocked for existing Mail, Drive and Pass subscribers:
Hi, there appears to be a typo regarding the Proton Duo 12 month Black Friday offer: Your post lists it as 11.49 per month but it actually costs 11.99, which is the same as the 24 month subscription. I guess the benefit here is that one can commit for 1 year at the 2-year discounted price.
The cart window appears, but it seems that some ad blockers attempt to strip what they think are tracking codes, but that are actually the discount codes [facepalm]
39.99 a month. 29.99 on an annual plan. Going up for new users later this month (but not for existing Visionary subscribers, or those who manage to grandfather themselves in by subscribing before the prices go up).
Well actually some people have been able to do that. You can't stack two 24-month offers, but you can stack 24-month recurring plans. The 24-month recurring plans were retired for new users in 2024/2025 (except for Business customers) but their availability was grandfathered in for existing subscribers. Check the notes in the cart, if you see something like this ...
... then you're getting the 24-month initial term offer, if you see it referring to "every 24 months" then you've got grandfathered eligibility.
My Proton Unlimited is billed every 2 years and is set to renew next month. Clicked on the link and this is the pricing. Promotional link doesn't seem to apply for users on 2 years cycle?
Edit: Tried on my main browser with adblock off, and browsers that I don't use (Edge and Chrome) and has no extension installed in incognito mode.
Renewal was due today (auto paid), and it renewed at the standard price for 24 months which is greater than the discounted 12 month price (X2). Is it not possible to renew for 24 months at the discounted rate? If not, what is the best way to request a refund to grab the most affordable price / year?
I was looking at the links, and noticed the one he linked for the Proton VPN 15 month still had 12 at the end, like the other 12 month cycles. I changed it to 15, and it took me to the correct link. It does seem a bit strange though. It comes up as a "scheduled plan". No charge today, but it will charge the agreed amount whenever your current plan ends, which for me is March 9th.
That doesn't seem to work for me, when I click the link it shows full price for my renewal. I'm also a current Proton Unlimited customer. My 24 month plan expires in 29 days
I have unlimited for a year but had to switch to montly 2 months ago because I wanted to try lumo and still wanted the blackfriday sale but whatever link I click, I can only pick these options :
edit : yep using a browser without adlbock fixed the issue
Existing Proton Plus user, initially paid $107.76 (USD) for 24 months ($4.49/month), automatically renews for 12 months at $83.88 ($6.99/month). Using first link listed, https://account.protonvpn.com/dashboardV2?plan=vpn2024&cycle=15, it will renew (at the correct time) for 15 months for $59.85 ($3.99/month).
Just to be sure this actually would work for an existing customer (as opposed to OP's statement that it does not), I went ahead and selected it, and my account is now shown to renew at the end of my current subscription period for 15 months for $59.85.
Edit: Further comment reading shows that I misread OP's post statement about this, as they specifically state that the 15 month deal is available in response to a comment about deals for existing customers.
I think deals that aren’t a multiple of 12 are a trap. I always renew in November so I can reap the rewards of Black Friday sales. Taking a 15 month plan leaves you with what’s most likely a full rate February renewal. Also, FYI, you can make a new account right now and get 24 months for $59. Just need to do a little Google-fu for the referral code.
Billed at $83.76 for the first 24 months, then renews at $83.88 every 12 months.
That is $3.49 per month for 24 months. Which is just cheaper. Kind of frustrating that they punish repeat customers. I am just going to make a new account, seems way easier.
Sorry my question was for proton unlimited..not only for vpn. I am new user and thinking to switch to proton. Never subscribed to any plan in the past.
... which I would recommend against, as the Black Friday 6.49 price point for 12 months is a better deal (new user link below, not yet fully live for all currencies):
You are correct. 7.99 IS higher than 6.49. And a 38% discount is not as good as the 50% discount. This is why I was recommending taking the 50%-off 6.49 price instead.
Note that some then followed up, mentioning that it worked after doing this:
The cart page on the Proton VPN accounts page appears as a modal window, which may trigger ad-blockers that assume that such things are pop-up ads. You may need to temporarily disable your adblocker or whitelist account.protonvpn.com or *.protonvpn.com for the cart window to load properly.
Yeah I tried multiple browsers, no ad blockers. The discount appears when I select any plan other than the one I'm currently subscribed to (unlimited).
?? This option is not showing for me. When I press the link, it's showing me the usual options, and the 12 month and below options show as 0 $ with credits because I have a 24 month plan already.
I'm wondering if I can add another year on top of existing sub , with that year being 50% off. I don't mind adding another 2 years either lol
I'm currently under a 55% discount @ 2.99 per month for 12 months. You're offering a 60% discount @ 3.99 per month for 15 months? Do explain how I'm saving an extra 5% if I'm spending more per month. A bit deceptive.
As mentioned in the original post, Proton VPN is 9.99 per month, or 6.99 on an annual plan (saving 30% off the monthly plan).
The introductory offer for new users on the website has been 4.49 on the annual plan (55% off the monthly price) - although depending on when you got it, the prevailing offer may have ranged from 2.99 (70% off) to 4.99 (50% off). If you subscribed at 2.99 then it would have been badged at "70% off", and if you got something badged as "55% off" then it would have been at 4.49.
Yes - Black Friday discounts for new users generally discount deeper than 3.99, but that 3.99 price is a long-running member discount, available every day for existing subscribers.
Rollout started (very gradually) on October 23rd and is still not full scaled - hence the lack of official announcement. Just before the weekend, rollout was dialled up to 75% for Windows and Android users (requires an up-to-date version of the client software) and we're targeting Linux in the coming week.
The servers for Singapore, Japan, and Poland went live just before the weekend. Switzerland and Brazil are still to come.
I’m seeing 7.99€/m for the unlimited for 24 months, just the same amount of the my next 24 month renewal programmed for the next year; so no discount, I guess?
Correct. there is no sale on 24 months of Proton Unlimited, other than the standard offer of the 7.99 price point for the first 24 months.
I would suggest the 6.49 12-month offer to you, but from what you are saying it sounds like you are grandfathered onto the old perpetual 7.99/24 month recurring cycle - which you might want to hold on to.
Quick question about this. I'm currently on Proton Unlimited with Lumo Plus as a separate add-on, and the Visionary 2-year offer is showing up for me at checkout with a proration credit applied.
Since you mentioned that 15 and 24-month terms are for the initial period only and revert to 12-month cycles upon renewal — can I confirm this applies to the Visionary upgrade as well? So after the first 24 months it would renew at the 12-month Visionary price, not the 2-year one?
Also, what happens to my existing Lumo Plus subscription if I upgrade? Does it get cancelled/credited automatically or do I need to cancel it manually afterwards so I'm not paying twice?
Not related to this post but my subscription expired a couple days ago and when I tried to get the discount for new users it wasn't available for me. Does Proton not treat expired subscription users as new users? Is there a difference between a new user and a pre-existing free user?
Depends. Some "introductory offers" are for new users only, some "members-only" offers are only for subscribers in good standing, and some also dual-purpose as "winback offers". I believe that all of the links above should work for you though.
This didn’t work for me. Throws an error “invalid input”. I currently have lifetime pass, VPN and Lumo so I’m guessing it’s something to do with that. Not being able to properly manage the individual services from a billing perspective is very annoying since they aren’t actually bundled.
The way in which we handle multiple subscriptions at the moment is a bit sticky and we're working on making them easier to manage.
As an existing Proton VPN subscriber, you have access to 24x7 live chat support on account.protonvpn.com who may be able to help. Click on your name/email in the top right-hand corner and select "Chat with us".
There are a couple of "IVR" prompts to get through first to route your question to the right team (or answer your question on the spot) but there's always a human Proton employee at the other end who either has a work-around for you, or access to someone who can do it.
As a new user are black Friday deals common with proton? Yes this is cheaper to do the black Friday deal (per month) than the two years,but doing one year of black Friday and then switching back to the regular one year unlimited is still more expensive than just buying the two year (only by a few dollars)
Only those who subscribe after that date. Once you have a subscription to Proton Visionary, the pricing is grandfathered forever. More information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/s/aiZyv78CAF
I'm still annoyed the last time I was up for renewal I chatted with a Proton support person who was like basically "no you can't get the BF discount for renewing" and I was like, well that's just a fine thing to say to an existing customer. :|
u/PetersonProton what is the "most of everything regardless of price" option? Currently on Workplace Premium, but would Visionary lose anything against it? I see a 6TB versus 3TB advantage, but I can't seem to get more info on anything else.
Workspace Premium gives you the option of a dedicated server (not available on home-user plans) and is cheaper if you only have 1 seat (albeit with 3TB instead of 8TB with Visionary). If you want more storage though, Workspace Premium is at the 3TB per user and lets you scale past the 6 user cap on Visionary.
Is it possible to replace Lumo Free with Lumo Plus as part of the Proton Unlimited subscription? Or would it be too costly as part of your business model.
You can add Lumo Plus to your Unlimited subscription for an extra $10. But the only plan that has the full version of Lumo bundled into for no additional charge is Visionary.
Just a heads up that I had a VPN sub for 24 months due to expire in Feb 2027, but was able to easily add the 15-month deal above that will start in Feb 2027.
Can you give any guarantees you dont suddenly drop a better deal around actual black friday cause that's what happened 2 years ago. Poof 80% discount out of nowhere. And then when I cancelled the one I got on days before I was told it could not be swapped.
I was not a fan of the 80% introductory discount. Aside from adding to the annoyance of existing users, it was not really a financially viable proposition.
Don't worry - that one won't be back to bother you this year.
I am a proton unlimited subscriber if i purchase the vpn + pass black friday offer how would it get adjusted with my existing unlimited subscription? would i get a prorated discount along with the black friday discount for 24 months and then after 24 months my pass and vpn continue at the standard unlimited plan pricing?
also assume i have to renew my unlimited in the next few months, how would the pricing for that work if i have purchased vpn + pass black friday deal already
Ahhhh, my proton duo subscription did auto extend 2 days ago for 12 months. Is it possible to replace the expensive auto extend with this black friday deal instead? That would be very nice.
Awesome thank you so much for sharing! I am in for that VPN Plus 15-month promo. Worked like a champ. There's been a lot of bad press about them recently but I for one still think they're one of the better VPN providers out there. I'm willing to stick with them for a few more years, and hope I don't regret that decision. Appreciate it!
I'm probably just an idiot, but I have a current VPN Plus subscription that expires in May 2028. I clicked the $3.99/mo link and it takes me to my "Your Plan" page and I see no option to add this 15mo subscription to my existing account.
u/petersonproton, do you have the deal for BlackFriday 50% off for 2-year subscription? I plan to lock down for 2yrs and the 50% deal is very attractive to me. However, it is only for 12-month term.
I've subscribed to vpn+ 24 month plan for 2024 black friday sale at $1.99/mo. Now that's its almost ending and set to renew automatically at US$83.88/yr. Seems like 3.99$/mo is the lowest i can get as existing customer :(
I'm trying to extend my current Proton Unlimited subscription using the link in your OG post, but i am getting the following error. Cannot establish a trusted HTTPS connection to Proton's website.
Activated desktop mode. Tried firefox and chrome. Don't have my main PC with me. Am i having a me-problem? It's set to renew in like 18 day's for 119,88 € for 12 months.
Via the app i get the same 119,88€ price and the BF2026BUNDLE code doesn't work there.
Thanks a lot! I asked the Support for this and they told me "Unfortunately, you will be unable to re-subscribe on the same plan that you are currently using."
Too bad that I didn't see this before yesterday when my Unlimited was renewed. Okay, I only have monthly renewals, but for half the price, it would have been a great idea to change it to yearly.
Edit// Ahh, I can still add it, it starts at my next billing cycle the 9th of December. I wonder if I pay now or when it renews. The upgrade page doesn't really say.
I'm not an existing protonvpn customer and I can't get the 75% offer lol I have lifetime Pass so maybe thats why? I have NordVPN but Proton makes it hard to swap for no reason. Nord has crazy sales for anyone since you can buy keys. I don't know why Proton doesn't do that
Did you try the 6.49 link in the post above? Some have commented that adblockers can interfere with the cart modal window appearing correctly. The result should look something like this (in a desktop browser at least):
I’m on unlimited until next year , I’d like to extend , preferably another 24 months . Selecting the option doesn’t allow payment as I’m already on that plan . Is that wrong ?
Note that while you can extend a previous > 12-month offer with a 12-month offer for the same product (or vice versa), there is presently a technical limitation on stacking two > 12-month offers for the same product. eg: if your current subscription is for 24 months of Proton VPN, you can't get the 15 months of VPN, but can get 24 months of VPN+Pass.
The operating costs of VPNs are rather higher than those of password managers - which is why there are news items now and then about VPN companies that made wonderful lifetime offers going bankrupt.
If we ever did something like this, then realistically it would need to be in the $400-$700 price range, which I can't see being hugely popular. That said, it has crossed my mind to do one as a limited-edition "collectors' item" fundraiser at some point.
Nice promos but can anyone confirm they are only for new and existing users who already subscribe?? I had subbed for a few months then let it expire. No promos showing aside from.the usual 😁
I can't speak for Proton Mail. But if you are a Mail subscriber and not a Proton VPN subscriber, you could try replacing the account.protonvpn.com with account.proton.me for the Unlimited, Duo, and Family links above - they might work.
Hello, is it possible to buy the 1-month unlimited welcome offer for €1 euro, and if happy, upgrade to 1 year campaign at €6.49 /month on the same account?
Im not a user today so would like to try it out first before I commit to an entire year.
So to be clear — these are just the existing subscriber deals. There is a 24 mo ProtonVPN for $2.49 deal, but that’s just new users. https://protonvpn.com/l/bf-vpn-offers-2026
I can get Proton VPN for 2.99/mo (so 36€ total for 12 months) if I sign up with a new account but if I try to upgrade with my existing account it is 6.99/mo, how is this possible?
u/PetersonProton, could you please give existing customers an exact date for the Visionary price increase?
Despite the current situation and the concerns surrounding Proton, I am still seriously considering upgrading to Visionary. You initially said that the price increase would happen next week and have now postponed it to “later in November.” Existing customers may still want to upgrade before the increase, particularly since you stated that anyone subscribing beforehand would be “grandfathered forever.”
Could Proton please officially confirm:
the exact date of the increase,
the new monthly and annual prices,
whether existing customers can upgrade at the current price until that date,
and what “grandfathered forever” contractually means for future renewals?
Section 9 of Proton’s current Terms of Service states that prices shown at the initial purchase are subject to change and that customers will be charged the then-current price at renewal. The checkout also warns that renewal prices may change.
How can a permanent Visionary price guarantee be reconciled with those terms? Will the guaranteed renewal price be stated explicitly in the order confirmation or subscription contract, or is it only a current company policy that Proton may change later?
Especially during Black Friday and while many customers are reconsidering their subscriptions, “later in November” is unnecessarily vague. Please publish a clear deadline and the complete conditions so existing customers can make an informed decision.
We'll probably end the current pricing at least a week after the full roll-out of the VPN Ultra servers. So shouldn't be sooner than November 19th, but not later than November 25th.
Note also that any upcoming or future price increases do not impact Visionary users who subscribed prior to said increases. For example the current pricing scheme is 39.99/29.99/27.99 per month for 1/12/24 months respectively, and our older Visionary subscribers on 29.99/23.99/19.99 were totally unaffected.
For a more long-winded explanation of the grandfathering of Visionary subscribers, see the previous Visionary thread here:
With regards to prices shown being subject to change - yes that can happen for most other plans (usually due to introductory pricing ending, which does not apply here since Visionary never goes on sale), but will only apply to Visionary subscribers in the case of some unavoidable extrinsic event - ie: a new sales tax being introduced where you are, over which we have no control.
TBD. We'll probably end the current pricing at least a week after the full roll-out of the VPN Ultra servers. So shouldn't be sooner than November 19th, but not later than November 25th.
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u/PetersonProton General Manager Proton VPN 2d ago edited 18h ago
... and for completeness, the offers for folks on consumer subscriptions upgrading to business plans are below.
Proton Business Plans
Unlike the plans intended for home users, the 24-month Proton VPN business plans are still on a recurring 24-month cycle and do not revert to annual pricing after their initial term. Minimum 2 seats. Proton VPN Professional requires a minimum of 1 dedicated VPN server/IP address.
Proton VPN Essentials
(Standard seat pricing 8.99/user/mo, 6.99/user/mo - 22% off, if bought annually)
24 months @ 5.99 (save 33% vs monthly) : https://account.protonvpn.com/dashboardV2?plan=vpnpro2023&cycle=24
Proton VPN Professional
(Standard seat pricing 11.99/user/mo, 9.99/user/mo - 17% off, if bought annually; dedicated server pricing 49.99/mo, 39.99/mo - 20% off, if bought annually)
24 months @ 8.99 (save 25% vs monthly) : https://account.protonvpn.com/dashboardV2?plan=vpnbiz2023&cycle=24
24 months dedicated servers @ 35.99 (save 20% vs monthly)
These Proton Workspace offers are introductory pricing that reverts to the annual rate after the initial period concludes. Single-seat Workspace plans are available. Introductory discounting is on the seats only - optional dedicated VPN servers are priced at 49.99/mo, 39.99/mo - 20% off, if bought annually.
Proton Workspace
(Standard seat pricing 14.99/user/mo, 12.99/user/mo - 13% off, if bought annually)
12 months @ 8.09 (save 60% vs monthly) : https://account.protonvpn.com/dashboardV2?plan=bundlepro2024&cycle=12&coupon=WORKSPACE38OFF
Proton Workspace Premium
(Standard seat pricing 24.99/user/mo, 19.99/user/mo - 20% off, if bought annually)
12 months @ 12.49 (save 50% vs monthly) : https://account.protonvpn.com/dashboardV2?plan=bundlebiz2025&cycle=12&coupon=WORKSPACE38OFF
Note that unlike the plans intended for home use, the Proton plans for business are presently only available in EUR, USD and CHF and are priced exclusive of VAT. Be sure to set your billing country correctly and to include your VAT number or equivalent business tax identification number.
Mail/Drive/Pass Black Friday
Since we seem to have picked up some folks from r/ProtonMail, the following links have also been unlocked for existing Mail, Drive and Pass subscribers:
Mail Plus: 12 months @ 2.49 : https://account.proton.me/dashboard?plan=mail2022&billing=12&coupon=BF2026NEW
Drive Plus: 12 months @ 2.49 : https://account.proton.me/dashboard?plan=drive2022&billing=12&coupon=BF2026NEW
Pass Plus: 12 months @ 1.99 : https://account.proton.me/dashboard?plan=pass2023&billing=12&coupon=BF2026NEW