Afrihost Fibre Deals 2026

There are 238 Afrihost plans in the table above, spread across 37 fibre networks. They are not interchangeable: the cheapest way onto Openserve Web Connect is R307 a month, while the same question on TT Connect starts at R757. Which networks reach your address is usually decided for you, so the useful comparison is within a network rather than across the whole list.

The last column is the best rand-per-Mbps available anywhere on that network, at any speed — not the unit price of the cheapest line beside it. The two are rarely close, and the gap is the argument against buying on headline price. The entry tier in this segment is R307 for 10 Mbps on Openserve Web Connect, which is R30.70 per Mbps; the best unit price in the whole segment is R1.30 per Mbps. Paying a little more for a much faster line is usually the better deal; paying the minimum almost never is.

No promotional rate applies to this line, so the advertised price is what you pay from day one — there is no step-up a few months in. Neither total includes installation or a router, because no per-package once-off figure is published for this line — most lines in this segment bundle both, and the deal cards above list what each one includes. Cancellation terms are the other cost that does not appear in a monthly price: no fixed term is not the same as no cancellation fee, and several ISPs here claw back a waived install if you leave inside six or twelve months.

Looking wider than this segment? Compare every fibre deal we track puts the full catalogue in one sortable table, and the cheapest fibre deals ranks the whole market on price and rand-per-Mbps rather than within one network.

A price is only comparable against the same product. So this compares each Afrihost package against the cheapest line another ISP in our pool sells that matches it on all three things we can verify - the same wholesale network, the same download speed and the same upload speed. 148 of Afrihost's 238 packages have such a twin. Afrihost is dearer on 118 of them, cheaper on 30, and exactly level on 0.

The median premium where Afrihost is the dearer option is R108 a month - R1 296 over a year for a line that is, on every specification we can read, the same line. The single widest gap is 500/500 Mbps on Metro Nexus: R1 327 from Afrihost against R749 from Mweb, a difference of R578 a month or R13 872 over two years. In the other direction, the best Afrihost undercut is 500/500 Mbps on Link Africa at R1 097, against R1 299 from Vox.

The pattern in that table is the most useful thing on this page. Afrihost's premium is largest exactly where competition is thickest - the big open-access networks every ISP resells. It is cheapest, or the only option, on the smaller and newer networks. So the question is never "is Afrihost good value?" in the abstract; it is "which networks reach my address, and is Afrihost the only ISP on them?".

Afrihost genuinely undercuts its rivals on 6 networks, biggest saving first: Link Africa, Netstream, Open Fibre, Vuma Reach, Openserve Web Connect, Fibonacci. On Link Africa it is cheaper on 5 of 5 matched lines, by a median of R102 a month - though at the bottom of that list the margin narrows to R2, which is not a reason to choose anything. If your address is on one of the contested networks instead, the honest move is to compare every ISP on it rather than assume the brand you know is the cheapest. Our full comparison table holds every package we track in one sortable grid, and the cheapest fibre deals page ranks the whole market on price and rand-per-Mbps rather than within one ISP's catalogue. For a straight ISP-versus-ISP read, our best fibre ISP ranking scores Afrihost against Mweb and the rest on support, speed and billing record.

Monthly-billed packages only; pre-paid passes are priced per pass, not per month, and are excluded from per-month figures. None of Afrihost's own lines are pre-paid passes, but some rivals' are, and including one would make a fortnight's price look like a month's.

Afrihost's catalogue is unusually deep in the middle. Every one of the site's 7 speed tiers has Afrihost packages in it, and the heaviest concentration sits between 100 Mbps and 40 Mbps. That matters because the cheapest line in a tier and the best value in a tier are almost never the same package.

Read the last two columns together. The best unit price Afrihost can offer falls steeply as you climb the ladder: R29.80 per Mbps is the best available at the 10 Mbps rung, against R1.30 at 1 Gbps - a factor of 23. The slowest packages are always the worst value per megabit, which is why "the cheapest line" is rarely the right purchase. Across the whole Afrihost catalogue the spread runs from R1.30 per Mbps (1000/200 Mbps on Unifybr On High) to R67.40 per Mbps (5/5 Mbps on Comtel Fibre) - the same rand buying 52 times more capacity at one end than the other.

Afrihost holds the cheapest line anywhere in our pool at 40 Mbps only. At every other tier another ISP is cheaper, sometimes substantially: at 1 Gbps the gap is R498 a month. Each tier has its own page with every ISP's pricing on it: 10 Mbps, 20 Mbps, 40 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 200 Mbps, 500 Mbps and 1 Gbps.

One Afrihost line sits below the bottom of that ladder and therefore has no tier page: 5/5 Mbps on Comtel Fibre at R337. At R67.40 per Mbps it is the worst unit price Afrihost sells, and it exists because some addresses genuinely have nothing faster available. If that is your situation, check it against the 10 Mbps tier before ordering - a slightly faster line is often no dearer.

This is the argument for Afrihost, and it is a strong one. 90 of Afrihost's 238 packages sit on 13 wholesale networks that no other ISP in our pool sells on at all. If one of those networks is what was trenched past your house, the comparison shopping is over before it starts: Afrihost is the option. That is common in newer estates, in complexes with a single-operator agreement, and in the metro edges the big four open-access networks have not reached.

Because there is no rival price to compare against on these networks, rand-per-Mbps is the only honest check available. The chart below shows the best unit price Afrihost sells on each of them. The spread is wide enough to matter: from R1.30 per Mbps on Unifybr On High to R19.43 on Purple Forest Waterfall View.

Two cautions on that list, both of them things our own catalogue notes record. First, some of these networks have shown up flagged inactive on Afrihost's own provider index in recent verification passes even while their prices still publish, so a package that looks live here may not be orderable at your address - the coverage check is the arbiter, not this table. Second, a network with one ISP on it has no competitive pressure on price, and the unit prices in the chart show it: the weakest entry is roughly 15 times the unit price of the strongest.

The flip side is the 24 networks where Afrihost does have company. On those, the sensible starting point is the network's own page rather than an ISP's: Openserve, Vumatel, Frogfoot, Octotel and MetroFibre each list every ISP selling on them, Afrihost included. If you want the aerial and wireless products rather than trenched fibre, Vuma Reach is the one Afrihost resells.

Upload speed is the specification most readers ignore and then regret. Of Afrihost's 238 packages, 163 are symmetrical - upload matched to download - which is 68% of the catalogue. But that average hides everything useful, because symmetry is a property of the network, not of the ISP. The chart below takes the 12 networks where Afrihost sells the most packages and shows what share of each is symmetrical.

The practical reading: if you upload for a living - video calls all day, large file hand-offs, cloud backup, streaming out rather than in - the network under the package decides whether Afrihost can sell you a symmetrical line at all. On some of these networks every single Afrihost package is symmetrical; on others none is, and no amount of paying more fixes it.

Every one of those networks has its own Afrihost page with the packages, the coverage notes and the install treatment for that specific operator. Start from the network at your address rather than from the speed you want:

• Afrihost Openserve
• Afrihost Vumatel
• Afrihost Vuma Reach
• Afrihost Octotel
• Afrihost Frogfoot
• Afrihost Frogfoot Air
• Afrihost MetroFibre
• Afrihost Metro Nexus
• Afrihost Metro Nova
• Afrihost Evotel
• Afrihost Mitsol
• Afrihost Zoom Fibre
• Afrihost Lightstruck
• Afrihost Link Africa
• Afrihost Link Layer
• Afrihost Clear Access
• Afrihost TT Connect
• Afrihost Thinkspeed
• Afrihost Openfibre
• Afrihost Route Fibre
• Afrihost DNAtel
• Afrihost Netstream
• Afrihost Comtel
• Afrihost Fibonacci
• Afrihost Balwin
• Afrihost MTN Fibre
• Afrihost Vodacom
• Afrihost fibre by suburb

If you do not know which networks are lit at your address yet, that is the first thing to settle - everything else on this page is downstream of it. Our fibre coverage map covers every major operator, and the uncapped deals page is the place to compare once you know what reaches you.

A monthly price is not what fibre costs. There are four once-off amounts attached to these packages, three of which Afrihost states plainly in the terms on every line in this catalogue - and one it does not.

The missing figure is installation. Afrihost's packages split three ways on how installation and hardware are handled, and which group a package falls into is decided by the network, not by the speed or the price:

• Free router, install credited - 123 packages across 19 networks, cheapest R447 for 15/15 Mbps on Fibonacci. Installation is credited under Afrihost's setup offer of up to R5 000, and the only cash at signup is the router delivery fee.
• Install fee charged at signup - 108 packages across 15 networks, cheapest R337 for 5/5 Mbps on Comtel Fibre. Installation is charged at signup and explicitly excluded from that setup credit. Afrihost does not publish the amount anywhere we can read it, so we do not print one.
• Wireless device, free install - 7 packages across 3 networks, cheapest R307 for 10/5 Mbps on Openserve Web Connect. A wireless device is installed at the premises, installation and activation are free, and there is no router fee at all.

That second group is not a rounding error - it is 108 of 238 packages, roughly 45% of the catalogue. We are not going to invent a figure for it. An install fee we guessed at would be worse than an obvious gap, because a reader would budget against it. Ask Afrihost for the amount in writing before you order on one of those networks, and treat it as an open cost until they give you one.

Three things that table is deliberately honest about. The totals are built on the standing monthly rate, not on a promotional one - this catalogue records the reverted price but not how many months a promotion runs, and multiplying a promo rate by twelve invents a year at a price nobody is offered. Where a row says "+ install", that is the unpublished fee above, not a figure we left out. And none of the totals include the cancellation fee, because it only applies if you leave early.

On that last point, read the term in full rather than the summary: “R999 cancellation fee applies if cancelled within 6 months of activation, or if your account falls into arrears (excludes Vuma Reach).” Month-to-month is not the same as free to leave. If you expect to move house or switch inside half a year, that R999 is a real part of the price, and it is worth comparing against the month-to-month deals page, where the no-contract offers are ranked against each other.

The setup credit is worth reading just as carefully: “New installs and migrations qualify for up to R5 000 in setup, activation and hardware credit. Selected providers only - see Afrihost T&Cs.” "Up to" and "selected providers only" are both doing work in that sentence. It is a credit against real setup costs on some networks, not a discount you can count on at any address.

Afrihost does not install anything. The network operator does, and that is why install timing varies more by network than by ISP. What Afrihost controls is the order, the validation and the provisioning at the end; what it does not control is the trench, the pole, the body corporate or the technician's diary.

Two failure modes are worth planning around. If the property has never had fibre, the operator has to build to it, and "seven to fourteen working days" becomes weeks - sometimes months on a network still constructing in your street. If the line already exists because a previous tenant used it, the whole thing can be a same-day provisioning job with no technician visit at all. Ask which of the two you are before you commit to a switch-over date, and keep the old connection live until the new one tests clean.

When it does go live, benchmark it immediately rather than three months later when a dispute is harder to win. Our speed test records download, upload, latency and jitter, and the benchmarks page shows what the network under your line actually delivers across the readers we measure - which is the number to argue with if your line underperforms it.

A page that recommends every ISP to everyone is useless. So here is the disqualification, stated plainly: if you are shopping on price and your address is on a contested network, Afrihost is the wrong choice, and the data on this page is what says so. On 118 of 148 identical-line matchups another ISP we track is cheaper, by a median of R108 a month. Over a two-year hold that is R2 592 for the same speeds on the same fibre.

Look at Webafrica instead if support record matters more than catalogue breadth

Afrihost's record is real and earned - our own scorecard's one-line reason for where it ranks is “MyBroadband ISP of the Year 2026; widest network catalogue.” But its Trustpilot standing is the weakest of the major ISPs we score: 1.8 out of 5 from roughly 1 100 reviews, against 4.4 from roughly 17 000 for Webafrica - which is why our composite score puts Webafrica at 88.4 and Afrihost at 76.3. If the thing you fear most is a billing dispute or a fault nobody owns, read the Webafrica review before you order, and check how we build those scores so you can weight them yourself.

Look at MWeb or Vox instead if you are on one of the big open-access networks

On the networks where every ISP competes, the premium is at its widest. Against MWeb, Afrihost is dearer on 103 of 123 matched lines, by a median of R92; against Vox, 56 of 113. MWeb's cheapest monthly line is R279 for 5/5 Mbps on FibreSuburb Networks and its best unit price is R0.80 per Mbps. MWeb's page and Vox's page both list their catalogues in full, and the best fibre deals page is where the three sit side by side.

Look at a gigabit specialist instead if you want symmetrical gigabit cheaply

Afrihost's cheapest gigabit-tier line is R1 297 for 1000/200 Mbps on Unifybr On High, and the cheapest gigabit line anywhere in our pool is R799 from Mweb on Cybersmart. That is not a small gap, and it is the clearest case on this page for shopping elsewhere. The gigabit page ranks every one of them, and Cybersmart is worth a look specifically because its symmetrical gigabit pricing sits below everything Afrihost sells at that tier.

Look elsewhere if you need a pre-paid or day-pass product

Afrihost sells none. Every line in this catalogue bills monthly, so if you want to pay per week or per day - because the connection is for a holiday let, a building site or an occasional second home - this is the wrong catalogue entirely. Pre-paid fibre passes are priced per pass, not per month, and cannot be compared against anything on this page; RSAweb is the ISP in our pool that sells them.

And the positive case, stated as plainly: Afrihost is the right buy if your address is on one of the 13 networks nobody else reaches, if you want a mid-range symmetrical line on a network Afrihost prices competitively, or if you value a long-running support reputation and a clean control panel over saving R108 a month. Those are real reasons. "It is the cheapest" is not one, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.