Surfshark

Fast, cheap and great for streaming, Surfshark remains one of our favourite VPN services

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Like its sibling company NordVPN, reviewed on p90, Surfshark is rapidly moving into traditional internet security spaces. It now offers features such as remote and local malware scanning and protection for PCs, removal of your personal information from data brokers, eSIMs and single-use alternative identities. These are available in a variety of different bundles, but this Labs focuses on straight-up VPN services so we've reviewed the Surfshark Starter package. This doesn't include any of these extras, unless you count the travel eSIM sign-up bonus, but it's extremely cost-effective if all you need is a VPN.

Surfshark is the consumer VPN service we most frequently recommend, thanks to dependable and fast performance in our tests, year in, year out. It's also routinely excellent for watching all kinds of region-locked media: it sailed through our current iPlayer, Netflix and Amazon Prime tests, but then it usually does. Although ExpressVPN and Proton VPN were both faster in our most recent tests, Surfshark never fell below 300Mbits/sec so it's a match for anything you want to throw at it, from streaming to gaming.