Cigar of the Month Clubs Compared: 11 Subscriptions Priced Per Cigar (2026)

Every price on this page was read from the club's own website on September 4, 2026. Where a club would not let us verify a number, we say so instead of guessing. Cost per cigar includes shipping whenever the club states it, because shipping is what separates a $9.66 cigar from an $11.65 one.

The short version

• Cheapest verified cost per cigar: Smoke Inn's Double Down at $59.95 for ten cigars, $6.00 each before shipping; Mike's 18-month prepaid plan at $6.39 with free ground shipping; Privada's Farm Rolled box at $6.49 delivered; Holt's at $6.99 delivered.
• Best for discovery: Privada's Rare Box, three aged or limited cigars with collector's cards at $11.65 delivered, and Small Batch Cigar's $30 club, which ships boutique-shop picks free and promises no repeats inside 12 months on its $20 tier.
• Best gift structure: Clubs of America (fixed 2 to 12 month terms), Amazing Clubs (3, 4, 6 or 12 deliveries with a printed announcement), Smoke Inn (3 and 6 month gift plans) and CigarClub.com (3, 6 and 12 month gifts plus a magazine subscription).
• Skip the subscription: the five best-rated cigars in our catalog under $4.50 come to $19.81, or $3.96 each, and you choose every stick. The list is at the bottom of this page.

Every club, priced per cigar

How to read the cost per cigar

Two things move the number more than the sticker price. Shipping first: Privada's Rare Box is $28.99 for three cigars, which reads as $9.66 each, but the $5.95 shipping on every box makes it $11.65. Clubs of America adds $8.00 per shipment, so its $33.95 five-pack lands at $8.39 a cigar. Count second: Small Batch's $30 club sends "2 to 6 exciting cigars each month", which is anywhere from $5.00 to $15.00 per cigar depending on the month.

Prepay discounts are real but small. Southern Cigar Co drops from $39.95 to $37.95 a month on a six-month prepay, 50 cents per cigar. Mike's is the exception: its only plans are prepaid blocks, and the per-month cost falls from $41.67 on three months to $31.94 on eighteen.

The clubs, one by one

Privada Cigar Club

Privada sells three monthly tiers, all cancellable at any time. The Rare Box is $28.99 for "three rare and unique cigars", each with a collector's card carrying the backstory, tasting notes and a pairing guide. Farm Rolled is $20.00 for "four premium handmade cigars". The Stack combines both boxes, seven cigars, for $48.99. Shipping is $5.95 per box on both product pages; an $8-a-month add-on gives free shipping on renewals plus one extra cigar. Both cigar tiers include a one-year Enthusiast Report magazine subscription and members-only drops. Charges are non-refundable once a box has shipped. We found a one-time gift box but no gift subscription.

Read it this way: Farm Rolled is the value tier at $6.49 delivered, and the Rare Box is the discovery tier at $11.65.

Small Batch Cigar

Small Batch lists six monthly clubs at $20, $30, $50, $60 and $75, plus a $75 "Cigars Unbanded" club tied to the shop's Thursday live streams, which sends four or five cigars depending on how many Thursdays the month has. On September 4 only the $30 club was in stock. That club sends "2 to 6 exciting cigars each month", ships free with a Boveda pack, bills on the same day each month and can be cancelled at any time. The $20 tier promises no repeats within a 12-month period. Discounts and reward points do not apply to club orders. Because the counts are ranges, the $30 club costs $5.00 to $15.00 per cigar.

Luxury Cigar Club

Luxury Cigar Club runs five cigar tiers plus a $9.99 "Plus" membership that ships no cigars and gives 20% off site-wide. Core is $18.99 for three cigars, Platinum $50.95 for five, Palladium $53.95 for five, Sapphire $69.99 for four, and Diamond $150 for "five to seven of the rarest and most premium cigars", sold out when we checked. Subscription shipping is a flat $6 in the US and $16 internationally. Plans are month to month, billed until cancelled, and the club's July 2026 blog post says there are no cancellation fees. Members get 20% off purchases outside the subscription. Note the shape of the ladder: Sapphire costs more per cigar than Palladium, $19.00 against $11.99, because it sends four sticks rather than five.

Clubs of America

Clubs of America runs two clubs, both with a flat $8.00 shipping charge. The Premium Cigar of the Month Club is $33.95 for "Five Hand-rolled, Premium Cigars each month"; the Rare Cigar Club is $49.95 for "Four Hand-rolled, Rare, Small-Batch Cigars each month". Deliveries can run monthly, every other month or quarterly, on a fixed 2 to 12 month term or open-ended. Each shipment includes a newsletter with tasting notes, cigar profiles and drink pairings, plus a reusable humidification device. Gift memberships run 2 to 12 months. One warning: the homepage said "starting at just $34.95 per month" while the product and join pages printed $33.95, so trust the join page.

Holt's

Holt's has one plan: $34.95 for "5 PREMIUM CIGARS PER MONTH" with free shipping, ratings and tasting notes, and Boveda humidification. It bills and ships every month until you cancel; the first box ships in one to two business days and later boxes on the second Friday of the month. That is $6.99 per cigar delivered with no prepay, the simplest deal on this list.

Smoke Inn

Smoke Inn charges $34.95 for five cigars, or $59.95 for the Double Down at ten. You can pause or reactivate any time without emails or phone calls. Gift plans are $124.95 for three months and $234.95 for six, non-refundable once the first shipment goes out. Shipping cost was not printed on the page we read, so the $6.99 and $6.00 figures are before shipping.

Amazing Clubs

Amazing Clubs charges $46.95 per delivery for "five new and different varieties" at the regular price, with free shipping in the continental US, a newsletter and a humidity pack. Plans are ongoing or prepaid for 3, 4 (quarterly), 6 or 12 deliveries, and unshipped merchandise is refundable in full. It is built for gifting: a personalised announcement by email, mail or print, with 16 designs to choose from. When we checked, a Labor Day sale running to September 7 cut the price to $32.86, or $6.57 per cigar; the regular $9.39 is the number to plan on.

Mike's Cigars

Mike's has no month-to-month option. You prepay $125 for three months, $225 for six, $410 for a year or $575 for eighteen months, and each month delivers "5 super-premium cigars" with free ground shipping and a "luxury item: cutter, lighter, cigar case, etc." Per month that is $41.67, $37.50, $34.17 and $31.94. The page says the cigars are of your choice, which makes this a scheduled five-pack rather than a curated surprise. Memberships renew automatically unless cancelled.

CigarClub.com

CigarClub.com sells the Explorer plan at $29.99 for three, $44.99 for five or $89.99 for ten cigars a month. BLACK is quarterly from $59.00 for four cigars; Customs ships member-only blends every two months from $54.99 for five. Recurring orders bill on the 5th and ship in the last two weeks of the month; you can cancel or pause by email or through the portal. The extras are the richest here: a complimentary one-year Cigar Aficionado subscription, a cutter in the first box and a Boveda pouch. Shipping was unclear on the pages we read, so the per-cigar figures are before shipping. Gift plans run 3, 6 and 12 months.

Southern Cigar Co

Southern Cigar Co sends four cigars a month for $39.95, or $38.95 and $37.95 a month on three- and six-month prepays, plus a $5 flat shipping rate in the continental US. Boxes ship between the 22nd and 24th. The first box includes a triple torch lighter, a double guillotine cutter and a Boveda pack. Plans renew automatically and can be cancelled any time; prepaid boxes still ship after you cancel. There is a gift option at checkout.

Creekside Cigar Co

Creekside charges $60.00 a month for five cigars from "an ever changing mix of boutique brands and exclusive limited editions", billed on the 1st and shipped in the third week. A ten-cigar option exists but its price did not render for us. SELECT is $125 for "4 Ultra-Premium Cigars delivered Quarterly", with an eight-cigar variant that was also unpriced. Skip or cancel any time. Free shipping applies to orders over $100, so expect to pay shipping on the $60 box.

Three retailer clubs we could not verify, and one that does not exist

Cigars International, JR Cigars and Thompson Cigar all run cigar-of-the-month programs, and all three blocked automated price checks on September 4, 2026 behind bot walls. We do not print prices we could not read on the page, so they are absent from the table. Check their club pages directly and apply the same arithmetic: price plus shipping, divided by sticks. Famous Smoke Shop, which older guides list as a club, has no subscription at all; its site offers a Burn + Earn loyalty program and samplers.

Build your own five-pack instead

Every club above works out to $5 or more per cigar. Our catalog holds 3,299 rated cigars with per-stick prices, and the five best-rated under $4.50, each with at least ten reviews, come to $19.81:

That is $3.96 a cigar, five Nicaraguan-made sticks from mild to full, and you pick every one. What you give up is discovery: a club chooses for you, and a good one sends cigars you would not have found. If that is what you want, our under-$5 guide and the sampler pack guide are the middle path, and the price index shows what each price band actually buys.

Which club should you pick

• New to cigars and want volume: Holt's, $34.95 for five delivered, or Smoke Inn's Double Down if ten a month is not too many. Read our beginner's guide first so the tasting notes mean something.
• Want cigars you cannot find yourself: Privada's Rare Box or Small Batch's $30 club.
• Buying a gift: Clubs of America for a fixed term with a newsletter, Amazing Clubs for the announcement card, CigarClub.com for the magazine subscription.
• Want to choose your own: Mike's prepaid plans, or skip the club and use the five-pack above.
• Hate surprises on the bill: Holt's, Amazing Clubs and Mike's ship free; Privada, Luxury Cigar Club, Clubs of America and Southern add $5 to $8 per box.

How we priced these

All figures come from each club's own pages, read on September 4, 2026. Regular prices are used, not sale prices. Cost per cigar is the price plus stated shipping, divided by cigars per shipment; where a club did not state shipping, the table says "before shipping". Small Batch's counts are ranges and are shown as ranges. For what a cigar should cost outside a club, see how much a good cigar costs, built on the 3,251 prices in our catalog.