Most households pay twice for the same protection. Your mobile carrier probably bundles a security app you never activated. Your internet provider may already block malicious sites at the router. Then you buy an antivirus suite, a VPN, and a password manager on top of all of it — often at a promotional first-year price that quietly triples at renewal.
Security Hub is a free, no-account tool that helps you figure out what you actually need. Tell it how many phones and computers are in your home, how many adults and children need a password vault, who your carrier is, and what you can spend per month. It builds a plan that starts with what you already have, fills only the real gaps, and shows the total cost both at the intro rate and at the renewal rate — which is the number that matters after year one.
The comparison pages break down the four categories people shop for: standalone password managers, all-in-one security suites, VPNs, and antivirus. Each entry lists the intro price, the renewal price, device caps, adult-seat caps, what independent testing says, and the limitations vendors do not put in their ads. Household seat limits are called out explicitly, because several "family" plans host only two adults regardless of how many seats they advertise.
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Interactive intake form with device counts, household members, carrier detection, router VPN compatibility, and malware agent requirements that outputs a tailored, priced household security plan with step-by-step rollout instructions.
Unbiased, structured side-by-side pricing matrices and feature breakdown for standalone password managers, all-in-one suites, VPN services, and antivirus solutions highlighting renewal jumps and household constraints.
Every vendor in this index carries two public ratings that routinely contradict each other, and the reviews page shows both side by side. App Store scores rate one mobile app, are collected only from people who installed it, and cluster tightly between 4.5 and 4.9. Trustpilot scores rate the company — overwhelmingly its billing, support and cancellation behaviour — and can be solicited in bulk by the company being rated. The gap between the two is frequently more informative than either number alone.
Proton scores 4.84 on the App Store and 2.2 on Trustpilot. McAfee scores 4.72 and 1.3. Dashlane scores 4.79 and 2.8. In each case the software is well regarded and the commercial relationship is not. The inverse also happens: TotalAV holds the largest Trustpilot profile of any company here while running one of the steepest renewal multipliers in the index, because a high TrustScore measures how diligently a company collects reviews rather than how it treats you at renewal.
Zero-knowledge providers are structurally penalised by this. A provider that cannot decrypt your vault also cannot reset your password, so every locked-out user becomes a one-star review about support — a direct consequence of the encryption that makes the product worth using.
Below each comparison, eight categories are scored against a published rubric: seamless UI, speed impact, cross-platform reach, support and recovery, encryption architecture, independent verification, jurisdiction exposure, and billing transparency. The last two are computed directly from this site's pricing audit and jurisdiction research rather than judged by hand, so they move automatically when that research is updated.
A dedicated page announces which security tools are currently discounted, what the sale actually costs, how long it runs, and what it renews at once the sale ends. The renewal figure is the number a sale does not change, and for several vendors in this index year two costs more than three times year one.
Every listing is checked against the vendor's own page before it appears, and sales with a published end date drop off once that date passes. Most vendors publish no end date, and the page says so rather than implying a deadline.
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