Kaspersky Premium vs Surfshark Antivirus Comparison

• Standard for 3 devices, renewal: $34.99 a year, the renewal price the store states
• Standard for 3 devices, first year: Intro: $30.99 for the first year
• Plus for 3 devices, renewal: $46.99 a year, the renewal price the store states
• Plus for 3 devices, first year: Intro: $40.99 for the first year
• Premium for 3 devices, renewal: $54.99 a year, the renewal price the store states
• Premium for 3 devices, first year: Intro: $42.99 for the first year

• Surfshark One, renewal: $99 a year after the first term, whether that term was 1 or 2 years
• Surfshark One, month to month: $19.95 billed every month, no discount
• Surfshark One, first 2 years: Intro: $67.23 for the first 27 months (24 plus 3 bonus months), then $99 a year
• Surfshark One, first year: Intro: $44.85 for the first 15 months (12 plus 3 bonus months), then $99 a year
• Surfshark One+, renewal: $119 a year after the first term

The products and services privacy policy lists what the software can send to Kaspersky: threats detected, information on installed applications, the addresses of websites visited (logins and passwords removed up to the host name), operating system events, Wi-Fi connection data and, in its words, suspicious files that 'can be automatically sent for a more thorough analysis by machine learning-based technologies and, in rare cases, by a malware analyst'. The files are mainly executables; harmless files or parts of them may be sent too, to reduce false positives. The policy says the Kaspersky Security Network Statement and the Marketing Statement list data that users decide to provide by ticking a box in the product settings. Kaspersky says files shared by users in Europe, North and Latin America, the Middle East and several Asia-Pacific countries are processed in two data centres in Zurich, Switzerland.

Surfshark says Cloud Protect checks suspicious files against its cloud database in real time 'without ever seeing your personal data', but neither the product pages, the help center nor the privacy policy say whether a file's fingerprint or the file itself is sent.

The privacy policy says data is used to protect users, to update the antivirus databases, to analyse threats, and to improve products through 'statistical research and analyses' on de-identified data. It also lists 'personalized information and offers from Kaspersky, including ... Kaspersky and third-party products and services, marketing offers, discounts'. Kaspersky may share data within its group and with service providers that supply 'web analytics, data processing, advertising, e-mail distribution, payment processing, order fulfillment'. On Android it processes a hash of a device identifier. The policy version opened is dated 28 February 2022. It states that data can be processed in Russia, China and Belarus among other countries, and that data from users in the EU is processed 'on servers located in the EU and Russia'.

The privacy policy's antivirus section uses device information to enforce the device limit and processes the malware name and type, country, OS and user ID for statistics. Separately, with your consent, the apps send device and engagement data to analytics and attribution providers, and the policy says advertising partners help attribute sales and show interest-based ads. The policy says Surfshark does not sell personal data.

Controls over how Kaspersky develops, tests and releases the antivirus databases for Windows and Unix systems, August 2025 to July 2026

Kaspersky calls itself a private international company with its holding company, Kaspersky Labs Limited, in the United Kingdom, and its operating company, AO Kaspersky Lab, in Russia. The privacy policy is issued by AO Kaspersky Lab, Moscow, and names Kaspersky Labs GmbH in Ingolstadt, Germany, as the group's representative for EU data protection law. The US Commerce Department's 2024 entity listing names AO Kaspersky Lab and OOO Kaspersky Group in Russia and Kaspersky Labs Limited in the United Kingdom. Kaspersky says it has no ties to the Russian government and is not obliged to hand over user information under Russian surveillance laws; the Commerce Department found that it 'is subject to the jurisdiction of the Russian Government and must comply with requests for information'.

The contract is with Surfshark B.V., registered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The terms of service are governed by the law of the British Virgin Islands.

Kaspersky was founded in 1997 and has its headquarters in Moscow. It describes itself as privately held; neither its privacy policy nor its FAQ names the owners of the UK holding company. The US Treasury sanctioned twelve board members and senior executives of AO Kaspersky Lab in June 2024; Kaspersky states that neither the company, its subsidiaries nor its chief executive was designated.

Surfshark B.V. sells the antivirus as part of its own subscription. The privacy policy says it shares data with its group companies in the EEA, the United States and the United Kingdom, without naming them.