Buying & billing
Price, licensing, renewal and refunds
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What actually determines what you pay, why the second year usually costs more than the first, and the difference between a vendor’s money-back promise and your statutory right of withdrawal under EU law.
Why there is no price on this page
Avast’s pricing varies by country, currency, device count, term length and whatever promotion is running on the day. Any figure we printed would be wrong somewhere, and out of date everywhere within weeks. Printing a stale price on an affiliate page is one of the ways these pages mislead people, so we do not do it. The vendor’s checkout, in your country, with your basket, is the only number that means anything.
What you are choosing between
Three variables set the price:
- Device count. A single-device licence versus a multi-device licence covering a set number of installations. The per-device cost falls sharply with the multi-device option, which is why it is the sensible shape for a household.
- Term length. One, two or three years. Longer terms are cheaper per year and lock in the introductory rate for longer — which is, for once, a discount that is genuinely worth taking if you are confident you will keep using it.
- Which product. Premium Security is the protection tier. Avast One and Avast Ultimate are larger bundles that add the VPN and, in Ultimate’s case, the cleanup tool. If you wanted a VPN, comparing Premium Security on price alone will mislead you — see what is not in the tier.
The renewal price is the real price
This is an industry-wide pattern rather than anything specific to one vendor, and it is the single biggest source of consumer complaint across the whole security-software market.
- The advertised price is almost always an introductory price for the first term only.
- Subscriptions renew automatically by default, usually at the standard rate rather than the promotional one.
- The renewal charge is typically taken shortly before the term ends, and the vendor is required to notify you in advance.
Practical advice that costs you nothing: at the moment you buy, put a calendar reminder one month before the term expires. Then decide deliberately. If you want the product but not the automatic renewal, you can normally turn auto-renewal off in your account immediately after purchase without losing the term you paid for.
Your fourteen-day right, and its exception
If you buy as a consumer in the European Union, Directive 2011/83/EU on consumer rights gives you a fourteen-day right of withdrawal on distance contracts, with no reason required.
The exception matters here. For digital content supplied immediately rather than on a physical medium, Article 16 allows the trader to extinguish that right provided you gave prior express consent to immediate performance and acknowledged that you would thereby lose the right of withdrawal. Software vendors ask for precisely that acknowledgement at checkout, and most buyers click through it. So in practice, once you have downloaded and activated, the statutory right may no longer be available to you.
What usually remains is the vendor’s own money-back guarantee, which security vendors commonly offer for a period after purchase. That is a contractual promise rather than a statutory right: its length and its conditions are whatever the terms say on the day you buy, and they can differ between products and between renewals and first purchases. Read that clause before paying, not after.
Before you click buy — a four-item check
- What is the renewal price, in writing, not the first-term price?
- Exactly how many devices, and does the feature list on your operating systems include the things you are buying it for?
- What does the refund clause say, and does it apply to renewals as well as first purchases?
- Is the VPN or password manager you assumed was included actually in this tier? (It is not.)
Check today’s price at the vendor
Prices, device counts, term lengths and refund terms are the vendor’s to set and change. Confirm all four on their checkout page.
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If the answer turns out to be no
Deciding not to buy is a legitimate outcome of reading a page like this one. If you go that way: keep Windows and your browser updated, leave Microsoft Defender enabled, use a password manager — your browser’s is free and far better than reuse — turn on two-factor authentication where it is offered, and keep one backup that is not plugged into the computer. That combination is free and covers more ground than any single subscription.
Legal summary above is general information about EU consumer law, not legal advice, and it does not address the law of any specific member state. For the terms that bind your purchase, read the vendor’s terms of sale. Reviewed 21 September 2026.