Labour Day VPN deals are live now, running through Monday, 7 September, and this year’s crop is as competitive as anything you’d find on Black Friday. ExpressVPN, Surfshark, and NordVPN are out front with the deepest cuts, but IPVanish and Norton are worth a look depending on what you actually need from a VPN.
Back-to-school season drives a substantial chunk of annual VPN subscriptions, which is exactly why providers time their biggest promotions around now. Sign up during a Labour Day promotion and your discounted rate stays locked in for the entire subscription period, so getting the timing right genuinely matters.
Labour Day VPN Deals: The Headline Offers Broken Down
ExpressVPN is offering 80% off on its two-year Basic plan, priced at $83.72 for the first two years with four extra months included. Renewal comes in at $99.95 for the following two years, still below the standard monthly rate of $14.99 per month. If you’d rather not commit for two years, there’s also 66% off on the annual plan with three months free.
According to AppleInsider, the Advanced tier two-year plan with four months free works out to $3.14 per month, representing an 82% discount. That’s the effective monthly rate once you divide the upfront cost across the full 28-month term, useful context when you’re comparing across providers.
For Surfshark, the headliner is $67.23 for the first 27 months of Surfshark Starter, which breaks down to $1.99 per month across the full term, per AppleInsider. The more interesting play, though, is that Surfshark One (the middle tier) is available for the exact same $67.23 price. You get everything in Starter plus alternate ID generation with masked emails for identity protection, at no extra cost upfront. The catch: Surfshark One renews at $284.25 a year, which is steep. Disabling auto-renewal when you sign up is sensible if you want to hold out for another promotion or reassess at the end of the term.
Surfshark’s headline feature remains unlimited devices with no cap on concurrent connections, plus split tunnelling, rotating IPs, and VPN MultiHop included as standard rather than as paid add-ons.
NordVPN is discounting its plans by 69-75% across the board for two-year subscriptions. NordVPN Complete, at 75% off, comes to $118.53 for two years plus three extra months. That works out to $4.39 per month and includes antimalware browser protection, SSN monitoring, and 1TB of cloud storage. All plans include Dark Web Monitoring for up to five email addresses. NordVPN also offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
IPVanish and Norton: Solid Options at the Value End
IPVanish keeps things straightforward. Two tiers, both with unlimited devices and connections. The Essential plan (standard VPN features plus 3GB of eSIM data) is priced at $59.76 for the first two years. The Advanced plan adds 5GB of eSIM data, a secure browser, and 1TB of cloud backup at $86.16 for two years. According to AppleInsider, the two-year deal works out to $2.19 per month when paid upfront, one of the lower per-month rates on this list.
Unlike Surfshark, IPVanish does not sharply raise its renewal price at the end of the introductory period, which makes the long-term cost easier to plan around. It also supports a wide range of operating systems (Android, iOS, ChromeOS, visionOS, AppleTV, Fire TV, and Linux) and offers router-level VPN configuration through IPVanish-enabled hardware you can purchase directly. For anyone switching between several devices daily, that router option removes a lot of friction.
Norton’s Labour Day offer is more modest by comparison. Norton VPN Plus is 50% off for the first year at $49.99, rising to $109.99 at renewal, with a ten-device cap. It includes kill switch protection, rotating IPs, ad blocking, and 10GB of cloud backup. If you are already in the Norton ecosystem, the Norton 360 Deluxe bundle is worth considering over the standalone VPN: it carries the same first-year price but adds antivirus, malware, and ransomware protection, renewing at $124.99 a year.
For a broader look at how these plans compare outside of promotional periods, CNET’s VPN guide tracks ongoing pricing across the main providers. The Labour Day window closes on 7 September, so if you’ve been sitting on a decision, that’s your hard deadline.
