Antivirus Renewal Price Index 2026: 19 vendors, year one against year two

Vendors that do not publish a renewal price

Checked on September 8, 2026. For these vendors we read the product page, the checkout and the support pages and found a first-year price but no renewal amount; the pages say the subscription renews at the price in force at that time. They are in the table and outside the average.

• ESET HOME Securityfirst year $34.99
• Trend Micro Maximum Securityfirst year $74.95
• Aurafirst year $144
• LifeLockfirst year $124.99
• Webroot Essentialsfirst year $52.49

Not verified on September 8, 2026

For these products a second reader compared the registration with the saved copy of the vendor page and rejected it. Nothing from that reading is shown. Where our catalogue holds an older price, it is listed here as a fallback with its own date, and it is a catalogue figure, not a measurement.

• AVG Internet SecurityCatalogue fallback dated September 9, 2026: $59.88 first year, renews around $99.99 a year (Internet Security (first year)).
  Reason recorded in the data model (Dutch, verbatim)

  nalezer keurde af: plan_name bevat een bedrag en een claim die niet in het bewijs staan: "het aanbevolen plan op de site is AVG AntiVirus Free ($0)". In extra-internet-security-us/2026-09-08.txt en .html komt "$0" nergens voor, en geen enkel plan is als "recommended"/"aanbevolen" gemarkeerd (grep op

• Malwarebytes PremiumCatalogue fallback dated June 11, 2026: $44.99 first year, renews around $59.99 a year (Premium (first year)).
  Reason recorded in the data model (Dutch, verbatim)

  nalezer keurde af: Quote 9 staat niet letterlijk in het bewijs: 'Special offer | Buy two years and save! | €104.98/2 yr. | €119.98' komt in geen .txt of .html voor (grep op 'Buy two years' en '104.98/2' geeft nul treffers; extra-checkout-3dev.png toont de wagen zonder upsell-overlay). Het bewijs dra

• Kaspersky PremiumCatalogue fallback dated September 9, 2026: $119.99 first year (Premium (per year, after the intro term)).
  Reason recorded in the data model (Dutch, verbatim)

  nalezer keurde af: plan_name claimt dat de site dit 'Premium (first year)' noemt; die tekst staat nergens in extra-premium/2026-09-08.txt of .html. De site zegt voor Premium letterlijk '5 Devices | 15 Months' en 'first 15 months'; 'first year' wordt alleen bij Standard en Plus gebruikt. | first_year

• Surfshark OneCatalogue fallback dated June 11, 2026: $41.88 first year (One (intro, long plan)).
  Reason recorded in the data model (Dutch, verbatim)

  nalezer keurde af: first_year_price 75.33 is geen jaarbedrag van het eerste jaar maar het vooruitbetaalde bedrag voor het 24-maandsplan ("€75.33 for the first 27 months", 2026-09-08.txt regel 61). De registratie geeft dit zelf toe in not_verified. Het bewijs bevat nergens een letterlijk 12-maandsbed

Month by month

Vendors that appear in more than one monthly snapshot, first-year price and renewal price side by side. The months before September 2026 were taken from our catalogue; from September 2026on, a row is what the vendor’s page printed on the day, with a saved copy. A change between those two kinds of month can therefore be a correction of our catalogue rather than a move by the vendor. A vendor that is missing in a month did not have both amounts read that month.

Sources, one per vendor

Each amount was read on the page linked here, on the date shown, and a copy of that page is kept in the repository under the evidence path. Two people read every registration unless marked otherwise. Vendor pages change without notice; on the day you read this, the vendor’s page wins.

• Bitdefender Total Securityhttps://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/consumer/total-securityread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/bitdefender
• Norton 360 Deluxehttps://us.norton.com/products/norton-360-deluxehttps://us.norton.com/pricingread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/norton
• Microsoft Defenderhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/read September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/microsoft-defender
• ESET HOME Securityhttps://www.eset.com/us/home/protection-plans/read September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/eset
• Avast Onehttps://www.avast.com/en-us/storeread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/avast
• AVG Internet Securityregistration rejected by the second reader on September 8, 2026; not used
• Avira Free Securityhttps://www.avira.com/en/free-securityhttps://www.avira.com/en/primeread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/avira
• Malwarebytes Premiumregistration rejected by the second reader on September 8, 2026; not used
• TotalAVhttps://www.totalav.com/product/antivirus-prohttps://www.totalav.com/subscription-pricing-matrixread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/totalav
• McAfee+https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus/mcafee-total-protection.htmlread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/mcafee
• Trend Micro Maximum Securityhttps://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/forHome/products/maximum-security.htmlread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/trend-micro
• F-Secure Totalhttps://www.f-secure.com/us-en/totalhttps://onlineshop.f-secure.com/789/purl-fs-buynow?cart=248274,248275,248276&plans=12M,24M&quantities=1,2,3,5,7,10,15,20,25&quantity=5&currency=USD&language=en&x-myaccount-promotionid=598&packagediscount=fixedregular2024us&x-option=TOTAL-US-PP&scope=checkoutread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/f-secure
• G Data Total Securityhttps://www.gdata-software.com/total-securityhttps://www.gdata-software.com/shopread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/g-data
• Kaspersky Premiumregistration rejected by the second reader on September 8, 2026; not used
• Surfshark Oneregistration rejected by the second reader on September 8, 2026; not used
• Aurahttps://www.aura.com/pricingread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/aura
• LifeLockhttps://lifelock.norton.com/productsread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/lifelock
• Webroot Essentialshttps://www.webroot.com/products/pricing/read September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/webroot
• Intego Mac Internet Securityhttps://www.intego.com/buynow?currency=USDread September 8, 2026, evidence data/evidence/intego