Buy a Ars Technica subscription with a Visa card
Buy a Ars Technica account or renew your Ars Technica subscription, instantly and safely
Buy a Ars Technica subscription the simple way: get a virtual Visa card in minutes and buy Ars Technica straight from its own site, or order it and PayFar will activate Ars Technica on your own account for you. Prices start at $5/mo, and you see the final amount before you pay. No shared account, no hidden fees, real people on support, and it renews on its own.
Ars Technica subscription price
Prices exactly as Ars Technica charges them. Your card is billed in the same currency, and the conversion is quoted before you confirm, nothing is hidden in the spread.
PayFar charges no monthly fee on the card, you pay Ars Technica only.
With a PayFar card, nobody needs your Ars Technica login
Every other route asks you to hand over your Ars Technica username and password, or to buy a login that belongs to someone else. PayFar issues a Visa card to you instead, you pay Ars Technica yourself, from your own account.
Resellers and shared accounts
They pay on your behalf: with access to your account
- ✕They ask for your Ars Technica email and password to pay for you
- ✕You wait hours: sometimes a day, for someone to process the order by hand
- ✕A middleman fee on top of the exchange rate, never itemised
- ✕One card funds dozens of accounts: they get flagged together
PayFar
You pay, yourself؛ we only issue the card
- ✓With the card you pay yourself: no username or password is ever handed to anyone
- ✓Pay Ars Technica the moment you decide to: the charge clears instantly, at 3am if you like
- ✓No extra payment fee: just the rate of the day, shown before you confirm
Nobody logs into your Ars Technica account but you. There is no shared password, no session on someone else's laptop, and nothing to revoke later.
You enter the card at Ars Technica checkout and the charge settles from your balance in seconds. No order queue, no operator, no waiting for business hours.
Ars Technica charges its own price and PayFar adds no payment fee and no monthly card fee. The conversion rate is quoted before you confirm.
What makes a Ars Technica payment go through
Ars Technica sells digital access through its own checkout, and that checkout reads the card's issuing country. A PayFar Visa passes; the article you wanted opens on every device you sign in on.
News subscriptions often start at a fraction of the price and step up after a few weeks or months. The page shows the regular price for that reason: it is what the card pays once the offer ends.
The subscription belongs to the account that pays. Paying Ars Technica with your own card means the app, the website and the archive all open under your name, with nobody else's login involved.
How to buy a Ars Technica subscription with a Visa card
- 1Open the Ars Technica subscribe page and pick digital access
- 2Create the account the subscription will belong to
- 3Enter the PayFar card number, expiry and CVV
- 4Billing country: your PayFar profile country
- 5Confirm: the paywall lifts on the web and in the app
What you need first
- 1A PayFar Visa, ready in under 3 minutes
- 2A balance of at least $5؛ top up in rial
- 3A billing country that matches your PayFar profile
The rest of your news & magazines bill
One card covers all of it. These are the other news & magazines services people pay for with PayFar.
Buying a Ars Technica subscription: common questions
How much does a Ars Technica subscription cost?
Ars Technica plans: Ars Pro $5/mo, Ars Pro $25/yr, Gift Ars Pro $25/once. Prices are exactly what Ars Technica charges; PayFar adds no monthly card fee, and the conversion rate is quoted before you confirm.
How do I buy a Ars Technica subscription with a Visa card?
Open a PayFar account; the virtual Visa card is issued in under 3 minutes. Top up at least $5, enter the card number, expiry and CVV at the Ars Technica checkout, and set the billing country to the one on your PayFar profile. The charge clears in seconds.
Is the Ars Technica price on this page the introductory one?
No: the page shows the regular price, the one a renewal charges. If the publisher runs an introductory offer, the first period may cost less.
Does the subscription include the archive and the app?
Digital plans usually cover the website, the apps and the archive; some extras such as games or cooking sit in a higher tier. The plan list on this page names each tier.
How do I cancel?
From the account page on the publisher's site. Some publishers ask you to cancel through a chat or a form; the card keeps paying until it is done, so do it before the renewal date.
Get a card that Ars Technica accepts
Open an account, top up in rial or crypto, and pay Ars Technica yourself, no reseller, no shared login.