How much is Vuma fibre per month?

There are two Vuma products and the difference matters for your monthly bill. Vuma Reach is prepaid, month-to-month, and built around affordability. Vuma Core is the standard contracted product with faster speeds and more ISP choice. Same physical fibre line, different commercial terms.

Vuma Reach (prepaid, no contract)

Vuma Reach is paid in advance via credit card, debit card, or EasyPay (in-store or app). Miss a payment and the line suspends until you top up. No credit check, no cancellation fee, no minimum term. The ONT has the Wi-Fi router built in, so there's nothing extra to buy.

Vuma Core (contracted, symmetrical at the entry and mid tiers)

Vuma Core prices vary by ISP, because Vumatel publishes no consumer prices at all — it is open-access, and each service provider builds and prices its own packages over the line. The figures above are the cheapest we track at each tier, with the ISP that sets them named; Webafrica, Cool Ideas and RSAWEB typically sit a little above the floor. If you're a brand-new install rather than an upgrade, check the Vumatel 30/30 Mbps NIC promo first — it's currently the cheapest symmetrical uncapped line in the country.

Standard Vuma installation is R1 725 once-off if you pay for it outright — that is Vumatel's own published national installation charge, and it is payable to your ISP rather than to Vumatel, which does not invoice households directly. In practice almost nobody pays it: every major ISP runs a "free installation" promotion in exchange for a 12-month commitment.

The standard install covers the ONT, 75 m of fibre, 25 m of conduit and 30 m of soft-soil plus 5 m of paving trenching. Beyond that allowance Vumatel charges R100 per extra metre of trenching, and tar, specialised tiles or concrete and any paintwork are excluded, so a difficult run is quoted separately.

If you want to skip the contract altogether, Vuma Reach is the answer. Standard install is free, you get the router free, and you can walk away at any month with no exit fee.

Don't pay for what you won't use. Quick guide based on how the most-ordered tiers map to real households:

• 20/10 Mbps (from R417 at Afrihost): Singles, retirees, small flats. Comfortable for HD streaming and one or two video calls. 4K stutters once a second device is busy.
• 50/50 Mbps (from R489 at RSAweb): South Africa's sweet spot. Two to four people, mixed streaming and remote work, one 4K TV, one console. Enough headroom that nothing fights.
• 100/100 Mbps (from R439 at RSAweb): Bigger households or people who back up to the cloud. Genuinely fast uploads matter here.
• 200/200 Mbps and up: You probably already know if you need this.

The single biggest driver of fibre regret in South Africa is buying speed you don't need or undersizing for your actual household. Match the tier to your busiest hour, not your average Tuesday afternoon.

R417 at Afrihost a month for uncapped fibre with no contract is the cheapest legitimate way onto Vuma in 2026. If you need faster uploads or higher speeds, Vuma Core scales up to gigabit — and the gap between ISPs on the same line is wider than it looks: across the nine Core tiers we track, the three cheapest sellers sit within R20 of each other at the tightest tier (30/30 Mbps) but R598 apart at the widest (1000/500 Mbps). So the choice that actually matters isn't the speed or the headline price — it's which ISP you put on top of the line, and at the top tiers that choice is worth more per month than a whole speed upgrade.

Ready to check what's available at your address? Vuma rollout is street-by-street, so a coverage map two roads over isn't reliable. Run the live checker on your specific address before you order.