Stan is the streaming arm of Nine Entertainment and the biggest locally owned service in Australia, built on original productions and licensed US drama that its rivals never get. The catalogue of Stan stops at the Australian border, because every licence is bought for a single market and the terms of service ask for an Australian address and a device connected inside Australia.
That matters the moment you leave the country. Your subscription keeps billing, your profiles stay where they were, but the player checks your IP address and refuses to start. An Australian server on Surfshark puts your connection back where the account belongs, so the library loads exactly as it does at home and the picture still reaches 4K on the top plan. The four steps below cover the setup, and the questions after them cover pricing, devices, downloads and the limits worth knowing first.
Tested weekly by our team. Green: works, amber: partial, red: blocked.
| VPN Service | Price | Stan | Tested | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 SurfsharkBEST | From $1.78/mo | ✓ Works | August 23 | Try it |
 ExpressVPN | From $2.79/mo | ✓ Works | August 22 | Open |
 NordVPN | From $2.99/mo | ✓ Works | August 23 | Open |
 IPVanish | From $2.19/mo | ✓ Works | August 19 | Open |
 ProtonVPN | From $3.59/mo | ✓ Works | August 23 | Open |
 Private Internet Access | From $1.79/mo | ✓ Works | August 20 | Open |
 CyberGhost | From $1.75/mo | ✓ Works | August 22 | Open |
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Stan is only available in Australia. To access it from anywhere else, use a premium VPN.
Stan is blocked in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in Canada, in New Zealand and in Ireland, plus in 188 more countries. To access it, use a premium VPN like Surfshark.
The streaming service of Nine Entertainment and the largest Australian owned platform in the country. It carries the Stan Originals slate, a deep run of licensed American drama and studio films, including every episode of Yellowstone. Subscriptions are sold to Australian households only, signing up needs an Australian address and payment method, and live sport comes as the separate Stan Sport add-on.
5 tips from our Stan testing team · Updated July 31, 2026
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