Vodafone broadband deals: current prices, the £3.50 rise, Pro 3 and what else your line can get

What does Vodafone broadband cost right now?

Direct answer: Vodafone's own website prices full fibre from £24 a month and Pro 3 from £36 on 24-month plans (checked 15 September 2026), and shows the tier prices after a postcode check; in our hand-checked deals table of 1 September 2026 the standard tiers ran from £24 to £28 a month and Pro 3 from £36 to £40, all with £0 set-up, before the £3.50 rise each 1 April.

Vodafone sells two part-fibre plans over Openreach's older network and full fibre at 150, 500 and 910 Mbps over Openreach or CityFibre, whichever has built at your address, with Pro 3 on top of any full fibre tier. Vodafone's own page states the rises with the price: from £24 a month, increasing to £27.50 on 1 April 2027 and £31 on 1 April 2028. Full Fibre 150 was cheaper than both part-fibre plans in the table, and Full Fibre 910 on CityFibre cost £3 less than the same speed on Openreach, so the network at your address decides the price as much as the speed does.

On 15 September 2026 vodafone.co.uk advertised switching credit of up to £300 towards early termination fees paid to your current provider, while the offer terms we could find, dated 27 May 2026, cap the credit at £200, require a claim within 90 days of activation with your old provider's invoice, and exclude 12-month plans including Essentials. Read the terms attached to your order before you count on either figure.

Two things stand out in that table. First, the same speed can carry two prices at one address: Full Fibre 910 was £28 on Openreach and £25 on CityFibre when checked, so the network Vodafone connects you to is worth asking about before you order. Second, the 24-month average is simply the listed price plus £3.50, because the rise lands twice in 24 months and there was no set-up fee to add; Vodafone's own 'increases to' wording on its deals page makes the same point. Our price and contract checker runs the arithmetic for any provider, and our price rise tracker lists what every major provider has confirmed for next April.

Our hand-checked deals table of 1 September 2026 recorded Vodafone Full Fibre 150 at £24 a month, Full Fibre 500 at £27, Full Fibre 910 at £28 on Openreach and £25 on CityFibre, and Pro 3 from £36, all on 24 months with free set-up and the £3.50 rise; Vodafone's own site shows 'from £24' and 'from £36' until you enter a postcode. The same table listed Vodafone 5G home broadband at £18 a month for 50 Mbps and £19 for 150 Mbps on 24 months, or £29 and £30 on a rolling monthly plan.

How does Vodafone's £3.50 rise work?

Direct answer: Vodafone adds £3.50 a month to every home broadband plan on 1 April each year for contracts taken on or after 12 November 2025, states the amount in the contract so there is no right to leave when it lands, and prints the resulting prices beside the deal: £24 becomes £27.50 on 1 April 2027 and £31 on 1 April 2028.

Since 17 January 2025 Ofcom has banned in-contract price rises linked to inflation and required any rise written into a contract to be stated in pounds and pence at the point of sale. Vodafone's figure is £3.50 for contracts from 12 November 2025, with contracts taken between 2 July 2024 and 11 November 2025 rising by £3; out-of-bundle charges still rise each April by the January CPI figure plus 3.9%. What sets Vodafone apart is not the amount but the presentation: the deals page carries the price for each of the next two Aprils, which is the arithmetic this site asks readers to do for every provider. Essentials Broadband has no in-contract rise, and the Together discount does not reduce the rise. Our page on the Vodafone price rise covers the April 2026 change in detail.

The practical rule is the one we use across this site: count both rises, because a new joiner sees the first one within twelve months and usually much sooner. Set against the other big providers, Vodafone's £3.50 compares with £4 at BT, Plusnet and EE, £4 at Virgin Media, and Sky, which does not fix an amount and gives 31 days to leave when it announces one. Our guide to in-contract price rises sets out the Ofcom rules, and price rises by provider lists who fixes the amount, who varies it and who promises none at all.

Is Vodafone the cheapest way to get the line?

Direct answer: Often, but not always. Vodafone Full Fibre 150 at £24 in our table of 1 September 2026 was £5.99 below BT's entry full fibre price of £29.99, against Plusnet from £22.99, EE at £25.99 and Sky at £23 on their own sites; all of them sell the same Openreach line, and which is cheapest at your address depends on the month's offers, so check the postcode comparison rather than any one price list.

Vodafone does not own the line into your home. At most addresses it is an Openreach line that BT, Plusnet, EE, Sky, TalkTalk, NOW, Zen and dozens of smaller providers also sell, and where CityFibre has built, Vodafone sells over that line too, often at a different price for the same speed. Where neither network reaches a home, Vodafone sells 5G home broadband over its own mobile network. That is why a comparison of Vodafone deals has to include the providers that are not Vodafone, and why the same plan can appear twice in the table above.

The wider market is cheaper still. When we last hand-checked every deal, on 1 September 2026, the 373 broadband-only deals from the 28 providers we can switch you to started at £13.50 a month (4th Utility, 150 Mbps on CityFibre), and good full fibre on a 24-month contract clustered between £23 and £34 a month with a median of £28. Compare Vodafone's entry price with that median before you weigh the extras. The full list, with first-year cost including each provider's rise, is on our verified deals page.

Two things decide which of these you can actually order. The first is whether full fibre has reached your address at all: Ofcom's Spring 2026 data puts full fibre availability at 82% of UK premises and gigabit-capable availability at 89%, and Openreach's own footprint stood at 23.4 million premises on 30 June 2026. Vodafone describes itself as bringing the UK's most reliable broadband technology to more homes than anyone else, which is Vodafone's framing of its combined Openreach and CityFibre reach rather than an independent figure. The second is whether a second network reaches you too. Where CityFibre has built, Vodafone has a second line to sell and the price can differ from its Openreach one; where Virgin Media, YouFibre, Hyperoptic, Community Fibre or another builder has laid its own fibre, you have a different product to weigh against Vodafone. Our guide to Openreach against CityFibre explains the difference, and our insight on how UK wholesale broadband works covers why Vodafone sells on both.

What does Vodafone give you: Pro 3, Together and the hubs

Direct answer: The line is the same, so what Vodafone's price buys is the retail layer: the Power Hub or, on Pro 3, the Ultra Hub 7 with 4G back-up and up to three Wi-Fi boosters, a Together discount of £2 with a mobile plan, Secure Net Home, a guaranteed installation date, and switching credit towards leaving your current provider.

Each item below was checked against Vodafone's own pages on 15 September 2026. Where Vodafone shows a price only after a postcode check, we say so rather than guess.

Two claims that circulate about Vodafone do not hold on its current pages, so they are not on this one: Vodafone's standard plans do not include 4G back-up (that is a Pro feature), and Vodafone's own site does not publish a tier-by-tier price list without a postcode, which is why the prices above carry the date of our deals table rather than of vodafone.co.uk. The upload speeds Vodafone quotes, up to 910 Mbps on standard full fibre, apply where the network supports them; the order summary shows the figure for your line.

Who should choose Vodafone, and who should not?

Direct answer: Choose Vodafone if you want a low entry price on the Openreach line with the rise stated up front, if CityFibre reaches you and Vodafone's price on it is lower, if you have a Vodafone mobile plan that unlocks Together, or if a dead line costs you money and Pro 3's 4G back-up earns its premium; choose another provider if you want no in-contract rise at all, a shorter contract, or a support record with fewer complaints per customer.

The head-to-head pages cover the pairings people search for most: Vodafone against BT, Sky against Vodafone and Virgin Media against Vodafone. For the whole market at once, use your postcode.

Does Vodafone do a social tariff?

Direct answer: Yes. Vodafone Essentials Broadband costs £20 a month for up to 80 Mbps with a minimum term of 12 months, no upfront fees, no early termination fee and no in-contract price rise, then £25 a month after the term, and it is open to new and existing customers.

Vodafone's eligibility list is wider than most: Universal Credit, Jobseeker's Allowance, Pension Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Reduced Earnings Allowance, Personal Independence Payment and Disability Allowance, as listed on its Essentials page, with a credit check and a confirmation email before the order is processed. Line rental is included but inclusive home phone calls are not. Because the term is 12 months with no exit fee, it is also the shortest commitment Vodafone sells on a fixed line. Essentials customers are not eligible for the switching credit, and the Together discount does not apply.

Set against the market: our deals check of 1 September 2026 listed social tariffs from £12.50 a month across the providers we compare, Virgin Media Essential Broadband costs £12.50, BT Home Essentials starts at £16.50, and Sky Broadband Basics at £20 is for existing Sky customers only. Weigh Vodafone's £20 against those on speed (up to 80 Mbps) and on the benefit list, which is the widest we have found. Our social tariffs guide lists every provider's tariff and who qualifies, and our insight on how social tariff broadband works covers the application steps.

How does Vodafone score on complaints and reviews?

Direct answer: Vodafone drew 8 broadband complaints per 100,000 customers in Ofcom's January to March 2026 data, two above the industry average of 6 and ahead only of TalkTalk (10), behind Plusnet (4), Sky (5), Virgin Media and EE (6) and BT (7); its Trustpilot score, 4.7 out of 5 from 136,495 reviews on 26 July 2026, was the highest of the seven largest providers we track.

Ofcom described the Q1 2026 industry figure of 6 per 100,000 as an all-time low, down from 40 per 100,000 at the 2011 peak. On the longer series Vodafone's broadband figure has moved from 11 per 100,000 in Q1 2025 and 11 in Q4 2025 to 8 in Q1 2026, its lowest figure in the published series and the largest single-quarter improvement of any major provider. Its landline figure for the same quarter was 2 per 100,000 against an average of 3, its lowest landline figure in the published series. The Complaints Floor, our Report No. 30, sets out the full series and Ofcom's comparability rules.

The two measures of Vodafone's service point in different directions, and both are worth holding in mind. Ofcom counts complaints that customers escalate to the regulator, per 100,000 customers; Trustpilot collects reviews from anyone who chooses to leave one, and Vodafone's profile, 4.7 out of 5 from 136,495 reviews on 26 July 2026, covers mobile as well as broadband customers. A high review score with an above-average complaint rate usually means most customers are happy and the ones who are not find the complaints process hard going. If you do need to complain, the rules changed on 8 April 2026: a complaint that Vodafone has not resolved after six weeks, down from eight, can go free of charge to the independent ombudsman scheme it belongs to. Our complaints and your rights guide walks through the steps and the compensation you may be owed.

What should you check before you order Vodafone?

Direct answer: Six checks, five minutes: which network Vodafone will use at your address, the three prices Vodafone prints on the deal, the same line priced from other providers, whether Together applies, the switching credit terms, and the exit formula, cooling-off period and switch.

Related reading: exit fees and set-up fees by provider, how One Touch Switch works, keeping your phone number when you switch, and 5G home broadband deals if fibre has not reached you.

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