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UPDATED pinch raised Netflix pricing. Netflix has increased pricing for each its subscription tiers arsenic of nan extremity of March 2026. The caller pricing bumped nan interest to $8.99 a period for Netflix’s Standard pinch Ads tier, up $1. The modular tier now costs $2 much astatine $19.99 per month. Its Premium scheme besides went up $2 to $26.99.
HBO Max, which reverted to its erstwhile name complete nan summertime of 2025 successful a rebrand, raised its Basic pinch Ads subscription by $1. Earlier that year, Peacock soared to nan apical of nan value rankings of ad-supported services, by hiking nan monthly cost of its Premium tier to $10.99 from $7.99.
Prices person been rising sharply successful caller months, however, a marked opposition to nan days erstwhile Disney+ had nary ads and costs conscionable 7 bucks a month. A caller report by investigation patient Antenna recovered that prices for some ad-free services and those pinch ads person risen connected mean much than 20% since 2023.
Apple TV+, whose monthly value has doubled since it launched successful 2019, mightiness person been tacitly acknowledging nan inclination erstwhile it made nan work free for nan first play successful January successful a world promotion.
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The surge successful streaming has tracked ostentation crossed nan broader economy, which has seen nan costs of groceries, state and galore different items climb astatine rates not seen successful decades. It tin beryllium difficult to support way of nan going rates for nan different streaming services – and doing truthful is moreover much analyzable now that astir are offering some ad-free and ad-supported tiers. Netflix’s Standard (ad-free) tier conscionable jumped to $17.99 a period from $15.49, becoming nan priciest awesome outlet, followed by Max’s ad-free level astatine $16.99, followed by Disney+ astatine $15.99. (Netflix and Max besides connection ultra-premium plans northbound of $20.) Most services person yearly subscription prices versus month-to-month, which tin shave a fewer dollars disconnected nan value for those consenting to perpetrate for a longer play up front. Then location are bundles for illustration 1 combining Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, aliases add-on options for illustration Apple’s precocious launched offering pinch Prime Video.
Internet-based packages for illustration YouTube TV initially besides promised a cable-like acquisition astatine a overmuch little cost. But YouTube just hiked its basal scheme by $10, bringing its base-level subscription to $82.99. January’s bump followed an $8 summation successful March 2023. The caller value for YouTube TV monthly now matches that of Disney’s Hulu + Live TV package.
For a rundown of nan various subscription rates crossed nan awesome streaming players, including prices for tiers pinch and without ads, publication on.
Apple TV
Apple TV, which softly rebranded to Apple TV by dropping nan + sign successful October, now costs $9.99 per month, aft a step-up from $6.99 monthly successful October 2023. The streamer’s monthly subscription value has doubled since it first deed nan marketplace connected November 1, 2019, astatine $4.99. That was astatine nan debased extremity of nan streaming spectrum astatine nan time, and reflected nan service’s deficiency of room programming and position arsenic a tech pure-play disconnected from immoderate accepted web aliases movie studio.
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The streamer offered a week of free watching Jan. 4-5 up of nan twelvemonth truthful that viewers could cheque retired its catalog, which contains shows for illustration nan Adam Scott-starring Severance, Season 2 of which arrived Jan. 17.
The streamer then, successful outpouring pursuing nan Severance finale and conclusion successful March, offered caller and returning subscribers a $2.99 per period woody for nan first 3 months of a subscription, followed by $9.99 per month.
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Disney+
With ads, a subscription to Disney+ costs $9.99 monthly. The no-ad tier costs $15.99 per month, aliases $159.99 annually. It costs $6.99 to adhd different personnel to Disney+ who is not wrong nan aforesaid household, and it costs $9.99 for an further Disney+ premium member.
Disney+/Hulu Bundles
- Disney+ and Hulu person a Basic Bundle for $12.99 per period pinch ads for some streamers.
- Hulu and Disney+ person a Duo Premium Bundle costing $19.99 monthly pinch nary ads connected either platform.
- The Trio Basic bundle subscription, which includes Disney+ pinch ads, Hulu pinch ads and ESPN+ with ads costs $16.99 per month.
- The Legacy Bundle includes Disney+ without ads), Hulu pinch ads and ESPN+ pinch ads for $21.99 per month.
- The Trio Premium subscription — which includes Disney+ pinch nary ads, Hulu pinch nary ads and ESPN+ pinch ads — costs $26.99 per month.
- In July 2024, Disney+, Hulu and Max rolled retired their bundle deal, which costs $16.99 per period pinch ads and $29.99 without.
- Hulu without ads + Live TV, Disney+ pinch nary ads and ESPN+ pinch ads costs $95.99 per month. Live TV is for illustration a cablegram add-on to streaming, and it comes successful useful for watching sporting events.
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In March 2026, Disney slashed nan value for its Hulu and Disney+ bundle to $4.99 a period pinch a three-month connection for caller and returning subscribers. The typical rate, which covers nan ad-supported versions of nan services, expired connected March 24. It was 62% little than nan regular value of $12.99.
Hulu
On its own, Hulu pinch ads costs $9.99 monthly aliases $99.99 per year. Ad-free Hulu costs $18.99 per month.
Hulu besides has unrecorded TV plans that travel nan bundles pinch Disney+ mentioned above. For $82.99 a month, Hulu + Live TV includes nan Trio Basic bundle astatine nary other cost.
As of nan caller year, Disney has elected to combine Hulu + Live TV pinch Fubo, becoming nan mostly proprietor of nan resulting merged company. This woody will settee each litigation betwixt Fubo, Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery complete nan Venu Sports streaming associated venture, which was group for a proceeding successful New York nan time nan woody was made.
HBO Max – other for sports, 3 – Ultra 4K
Warner Bros. Discovery’s merged streaming work pinch HBO Max dropped HBO from its sanction successful 2023. In nan summertime of 2025, nan streamer added HBO backmost onto its title. With ads, nan streaming work costs $10.99 monthly. HBO Max revealed it would raise each of its pricing tiers successful October 2025, pinch the Standard scheme rising $1.50 to $18.49 and Premium going up $2 to $22.99 per month.
The ad-free tier of Max costs $16.99 per month. The much premium subscriptions were raised complete nan summertime by $1 complete erstwhile levels. There is simply a yearly ad-free plan, which accrued by $20 to $169.99 per , and nan monthly “ultimate” ad-free plan, which includes other logins successful a family and prime titles successful 4K UHD with HDR10 aliases Dolby Vision, accrued by $1 to $20.99 per month. The yearly “ultimate” ad-free scheme went up by $10 to $209.99.
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In April 2025, Warner Bros. introduced a $7.99 per period “extra personnel add-on” floor plan for each relationship pinch its flagship streamer Max to curb password sharing.
Netflix – U.S. plans
Netflix group nan reside for galore of nan streamers arsenic 1 of nan first successful nan crippled erstwhile it added streaming successful 2007 arsenic an add-on to its DVD-by-mail business. The modular scheme without ads costs much than double what it did successful 2011, pinch nan institution openly nudging customers toward nan cheaper scheme pinch ads by keeping those prices to little than half of nan ad-free level.
Wall Street rejoiced astatine nan streamer’s latest value hike, its 2nd since nan opening of 2025.
- Standard pinch Ads: $8.99
- Standard: $19.99
- Premium: $26.99
The streamer is known for tentpoles for illustration Squid Game, Stranger Things, Emily successful Paris, Bridgerton, Outer Banks, Orange is nan New Black, House of Cards, Hemlock Grove, Arrested Development, and more. It has precocious added a batch of unrecorded sports and events, including WWE Raw and NFL games.
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Paramount+
Paramount+ has 2 main plans from which to choose. The Paramount+ Essential plan, which includes commercialized interruptions, costs $7.99 per period and $59.99 per year. The latest value hike took spot successful August 2024.
Paramount+ pinch Showtime costs $12.99 per period and $119.99 per year.
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Peacock
Times person changed successful nan four-plus years since Peacock launched pinch an first attraction connected its free, ad-supported basal tier. That scheme was phased retired by Year 2 and NBCUniversal went all-in connected subscriptions. The Peacock Premium, which was $7.99 per month, jumped to $10.99 arsenic of July 2025, aliases $109.99 per twelvemonth positive tax.
A mini magnitude of programming connected nan streamer contains ads. The value went up $2 successful April 2024.
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Peacock’s Premium Plus tier costs an other $6 a period aliases $60 per twelvemonth ($13.99 and $139.99) and is mostly ad-free, though unrecorded sports and different programming does person ads. It besides offers downloads arsenic good arsenic geo-targeted section position streaming.
Prime Video
Prime Video’s subscription value is $8.99 per period without an Amazon Prime membership. Being a Prime personnel costs $14.99 monthly, aliases $139 annually, though nan benefits spell acold beyond video and encompass free shipping, Whole Foods discounts and different perks. Students salary $7.49 monthly for Amazon Prime, aliases $69 yearly.
In March 2026, Amazon rebranded its ad-free tier arsenic Prime Video Ultra and accrued nan premium needed to opt retired of ads by $2 from $2.99 to $4.99 pinch nan new complaint taking effect April 10.
STARZ
STARZ presently has a typical connection done STARZ.com for $5 per period for 3 months. The streaming service’s existent complaint is $10.99 per month, and that summation took spot Aug. 5, 2024 taking nan $9.99 per period complaint to $10.99. The streamer besides offers an Annual Plan of $29.99 for 12 months, which comes retired to $2.50 per month.
Starz besides offers respective bundle options, listed below:
- HBO Max + STARZ Bundle connected Prime Video
- BET+ and STARZ Bundle connected Prime Video
- BritBox Bundle
- VIZIO App Bundle pinch STARZ and AMC+
- YouTube Multi-Year Deal Extension
- YouTube TV Offer – New and existing customers person 30 days of STARZ pinch a subscription to YouTube TV
- Verizon One-Year Subscription to STARZ pinch Home Internet – Verizon customers who bid Fios 1 Gig aliases 2 Gig Home Internet, aliases nan highest tier of 5G Home Plus get 12 months of STARZ included
Comcast’s StreamSaver Bundle
In May 2024, Comcast launched a bundle that offers Xfinity broadband customers Apple TV, Netflix’s ad-based tier and Peacock for $15 a month.
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Add-On Channels
Within nan siloed streamers offering various contented — sometimes exclusive and sometimes not — various platforms person made it imaginable to adhd channels from different streamers for an further price. Roku, Apple TV and YouTube person transmission stores, and cablegram usability Spectrum plans to merge streaming services into its offerings. Other examples tin beryllium recovered below.
Apple has precocious struck a woody pinch Prime Video successful nan U.S. and different territories. Amazon launched Apple TV+ arsenic a premium add-on to Prime Video, charging $9.99 per period successful summation to a Prime Video subscription for nan streamer’s different content. After launching successful October wrong nan U.S., nan add-on rolled out connected Prime Video successful nan United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
The add-on subscription will costs $11.40 per period successful nan UK and $12.99 successful Australia and Canada. With nan subscription, Amazon customers will person entree to each of Apple’s scripted content, arsenic good arsenic Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball games.
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Paramount+ is besides an add-on pinch Prime Video.
Bundles
Apple TV and Peacock
Apple TV and Peacock joined forces to connection a bundle deal for $14.99 a period starting mid-October.
NBCUniversal and Apple said customers will prevention much than 30% disconnected nan afloat unit prices for nan service, which hits nan marketplace connected Monday. Apple TV is ad-free and it tin beryllium mixed pinch nan ad-supported Peacock Premium aliases nan ad-free Peacock Premium Plus. The second scheme costs $19.99 a month.
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