A monthly VPN plan for a tunnel that stays on

Auto-connect is what makes a monthly plan different from a weekly one in practice. It watches for the device joining a network it has not been told to trust and brings the tunnel up before anything else gets a chance to talk. On a week bought for a trip you would do that by hand, because the trip has a start. Over a month there is no such cue: the networks arrive unannounced, in a pocket, while the screen is off, and a connection that depends on you remembering is a connection that will be missed.

The other half is what happens when the tunnel fails rather than when it starts. The kill switch stops traffic instead of letting the device fall back to the open network, which is the failure you would otherwise never learn about — no error, no prompt, just a handset quietly resolving DNS through the cafe's router again. WireGuard completes its handshake in a single round trip, which is why the ordinary event on a long run, a handoff between Wi-Fi and mobile data, is a reconnection of about a second rather than a stall you sit and watch.

Everyday use is far less dramatic than the trip-shaped use the shorter passes serve. Across one month a single phone quietly covers the commute, the office guest network, a hotel, somebody's home router and the cafe at the end of the road, without any of them being an occasion you prepared for. Not one of those is a destination you would have bought a pass for. Together they are most of the month.

The household case is the other reason a month is bought once rather than repeatedly. One account covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android, with Windows in review, so a laptop, two phones and a tablet can sit behind the same subscription. In practice that is also the simplest way to get DNS-level tracker filtering onto a device whose owner would never have configured it themselves: once the account is signed in, there is nothing left for them to maintain.

Short billing periods change the incentive on the other side of the transaction. When the longest anyone is committed for is the remainder of the current month, the only thing keeping them is the app continuing to do its job: connecting on the first try, coming back after the network changes, blocking what it claims to block. There is no paid-up year to coast on and no term inside which a bad quarter can hide.

That is why the ladder stops here. There is no annual tier and no discount for predicting next summer, and the monthly figure is the ongoing price rather than an introductory rate that steps up at a second renewal. If WrapVPN stops being worth it, the appropriate response is to stop paying for it, and a month is short enough that doing so costs almost nothing. Why prepaid annual pricing is shaped the way it is, and what to check before agreeing to one, is the subject of the commitment page in the related links.

WrapVPN costs $1.99 a week or $3.99 a month, with no annual subscription and no long-term commitment, and the two meet sooner than that ratio suggests. Two weekly passes come to $3.98: a penny under the month, for fourteen days instead of thirty. So the month is the better value from the second week onward, and by the third — $5.97 against $3.99 — it is also the smaller number on the receipt.

Against the daily pass the line falls earlier, and it is drawn in days rather than weeks. Four separate days cost slightly less than a month; five cost more. So if you expect to connect on more than about four days in a month, the month is already the cheaper purchase as well as the simpler one. Below that the shorter passes genuinely win, and this page will not pretend otherwise: a fortnight abroad with a return date, one conference, a single flight. Those are trips, and the daily and weekly passes are priced for trips.

The seven-day free trial is attached to the monthly plan specifically, which is the sensible place for it: a week is long enough to watch how the tunnel behaves on the networks you actually use, and that is the one thing no amount of reading will settle. Cancel before day seven and you are not charged at all. Cancel after it, and the month you have paid for still runs to its end.

Knowing the renewal date is the whole of the ongoing admin on this plan. Billing runs through the App Store or Google Play, so the subscription sits in the store account that already holds your others, with its next charge date listed beside it, and ending it is done from there rather than by asking anyone. Prices may vary by region and store, so the figure your store shows at checkout is the one charged. Cancelling midway through a month does not cut the month short: access continues to the end of the period already paid for, with nothing scheduled after it. That is the full extent of the commitment at any moment — whatever is left of the month you are in.