The Best VPN for Amazon Fire TV Stick in 2023

NordVPN has a decent interface is tailored for TV use, which means it’s easy to use with your Fire TV remote control.

As a service, NordVPN is one of the best. It has a huge number of servers (>5000) in around 60 countries. It’s consistently good at unblocking popular streaming services. That’s partly thank to its Smart Play feature that automatically picks the most appropriate server for any given country.

Performance is among the best of any VPN service and more than enough for streaming video. Speeds are quick enough for 4K video if your broadband connection can also handle that.

NordVPN isn’t only good for your Fire TV: you can use the service on your laptop, phone and other devices – up to six of them at the same time.

Surfshark is another excellent VPN for your Fire TV. It isn’t quite as good as Nord at unblocking streaming services, but it’s there or thereabouts, and it’s crucial to remember that things change on a regular basis as the VPN companies play cat and mouse with the streaming services.

There’s 24/7 live chat support if you run into problems unblocking a specific service, and when we last tested Surfshark, it unblocked BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Disney+, Max and others.

Speeds are excellent, and more than good enough for streaming in 4K. The only time you might run into problems (as with any service here) is if you’re trying to stream from a service on the opposite side of the planet at peak time.

The fact that Surfshark undercuts Nord on price, and allows you to use its service on an unlimited number of devices at the same time makes it a great choice for many.

ExpressVPN is one of the absolute best services for unblocking video. It regularly ensures that around 200 streaming services are available to its users, including some of the more obscure ones that other VPN providers don’t necessarily support.

Services such as Kayo, which streams live sporting events as well as a good selection of Netflix regions (Japan, Australia and France, for example, in addition to Netflix US). 

It also prides itself on its security and privacy, as well as its customer service. You do pay more for all this though: ExpressVPN certainly isn’t the cheapest option here.

ExpressVPN’s Fire TV app is easy to use on your FireStick, or whichever Fire TV model you have.

No doubt you’ll want to use a VPN service on other devices too, and ExpressVPN is notable here for it’s great router app which lets you unblock video on games consoles, Apple TV boxes and other devices that don’t support VPN connections.

PureVPN is a great all-rounder, and another service that has a Fire TV app ready to install in the app store.

In fact, it has just updated its Fire TV and Android TV apps to increase the available locations from 25 to 96, and added support for 11 more languages. Also useful is the new in-app live chat support. 

You shouldn’t choose a VPN service based only on its Fire TV app, but we’ve found PureVPN to reliably unblock videos from various streaming providers whenever we’ve tested it. As of May 2022, it unblocked iPlayer, All4 and ITV Hub – all UK-based services – with no issues. Sometimes Netflix would spot we were using a VPN, but generally worked without hassle – the same with Amazon Prime US.

PureVPN allows you to use your subscription on up to 10 devices at once, too.

Privado is one of the only VPN services we know of that offers a free plan which unblocks a few streaming services including Netflix US, Amazon Prime and BBC iPlayer. (It’s worth pointing out that unblocking Prime means you can watch content when you’re in a different country: there’s no way to access titles available in other countries because your location is set in your Amazon account.)

Privado’s free tier lets you choose between 12 servers in the US, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico and Argentina.

The only catch, which is fair enough considering it’s free, is that you’re limited to 10GB of streaming per month. Of course, if you want unlimited bandwidth, you can go for a paid subscription. At the time of writing, that was very cheap indeed.

Windscribe is another free VPN that’s worth checking out for streaming video on your Fire TV Stick. 

This service offers 10GB bandwidth per month for nothing (just like Privado), though it will only give you 2GB if you don’t enter an email address when you sign up.

The other reason it’s a good option is because the Windscribe app is right there in the appstore on your Fire TV so it’s simple to install and set up.

The company’s privacy policy is plain and explains that although some data is collected, it is deleted within three minutes of the session ending.

Under Windscribe’s free plan you get to use its servers in US and UK plus Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Switzerland and Hong Kong. The catch here is that you don’t have access to Windflix servers – the ones optimised for streaming – so you’ve no guarantee of unblocking Netflix or other services. However, we found it does unblock some of them.

To use the optimised servers, get unlimited bandwidth and access to all of Windscribe’s servers you need to upgrade to one of the Pro plans.

Speeds aren’t the best around, but as it’s free you can test it out and see if it’s quick enough to stream the videos you want to watch.