NordVPN vs TunnelBear Comparison

• Basic, 1 month: Billed monthly, no discount
• Basic, 1 year: $53.88 for the first 12 months, then renews at $139.08/yr ($11.59/mo)
• Basic, 2 years: $94.23 for the first 27 months (incl. 3 extra months), then renews at $139.08/yr ($11.59/mo)

• Unlimited, 1 month: Billed monthly, no discount
• Unlimited, 1 year: $59.88 billed every 12 months; TunnelBear's own checkout authorization text states future renewal terms are charged at the same $59.88 — a confirmed flat rate, not a discounted intro price. TunnelBear does not offer a standard 30-day money-back guarantee, reviewing refund requests case by case instead
• Unlimited, 3 years: $120.00 billed once every 3 years; a one-time non-recurring charge per TunnelBear's own checkout flow, not an auto-renewing subscription — resubscribing after 3 years would be a new purchase at whatever pricing is current then, not a guaranteed renewal at this rate. Same case-by-case refund policy as the annual term

Sixth no-logs assurance engagement, ISAE 3000 (Revised) framework. Assessment period Nov 10-Dec 12 2025: server infrastructure, configs, and deployment processes across standard VPN, Double VPN, obfuscated, and Onion Over VPN server types. Full technical report is not published publicly — only readable by logged-in Nord Account holders.

8th consecutive annual independent security audit, a white-box review (full source code, configuration, and backend access) conducted over 44 working days by 8 senior Cure53 auditors, blog post announcing completion published November 24, 2025. This round found 10 vulnerabilities of medium severity or higher plus 3 low-severity issues, all acknowledged and addressed or mitigated per TunnelBear. The prior (7th) audit, published February 2024, found 7 issues of medium risk or higher (5 medium, 2 high) out of 13 total. Unlike several other frequently-audited providers reviewed on this site, TunnelBear's audits consistently surface real, non-trivial findings each year rather than clean reports — presented here as a distinct trust profile (transparent about real issues, not a spotless record) rather than smoothed over.

Operating entity TunnelBear LLC (Delaware). Data storage and operations remain under Canadian law, per TunnelBear's own privacy policy.

"Thousands of servers"; exact count not published, and third-party estimates vary widely — not cited as fact here.

Per TunnelBear's own homepage; exact total server count not published on the pages checked for this review.