Atom
vs
Dedicated IP
Dedicated IP
Dedicated IP
Comparison · August 2026
A sticky IP on someone else’s network is not a private node. The add-on rhymes. It is not the same word.
| Atom | Dedicated IP | |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Dedicated household node | Extra on a consumer VPN |
| Month-to-month | $49 all-in | VPN $3–$13 + about $10–$18 |
| Best billed / mo | $29.08 ($349/year) | Still two bills |
| IP | Yours. The machine is yours. | Sticky, on their shared system |
| Who is on it | One household | You, on their network |
| When it is ready | Reserved on pay. Live in ~15 min. | Toggle in their app, if the add-on is in stock. |
| China | Product: private node on a hard network | Same parent network as the cheap plan |
Snapshot as of August 2026. Consumer prices move. How we compare.
Nord, Express, and others will sell you a “dedicated IP.” Public 2026 add-on prices sit roughly $10–$18 a month on top of the VPN. You get a number that does not bounce every session. You do not get a machine. You do not get out of their shared core. When their China story wobbles, your sticky IP wobbles with it.
Atom’s $49 is the node. The IP comes with the machine because the machine is yours. No add-on SKU. No waiting list for a sticky address on a crowded fleet. Reserved when you pay. Live in about 15 minutes.
Cheap VPN at $4 plus dedicated IP at $15 is $19, and you still do not own the box. Atom at $49 is not trying to win that spreadsheet. It is trying to end it.
Banking sites that hate rotating IPs. A single person, already in a consumer app, who only needs the number to sit still. That is a real, smaller problem. If the problem is “the family on a hard network, private, planned,” the add-on is a rhyme. Buy the node.
No. Dedicated IP is a label consumer VPNs put on a sticky address. Atom is a dedicated virtual machine for the household, with its own IP.
Because we would be selling their product. We price the high shelf: the dedicated machine, reserved on pay.
Also: China travel · Terms