💳 Every Streaming Service Price Compared (2026)

$7.99 a month is the cheapest door into a major streaming service in 2026. Netflix's ad tier and Peacock Select both charge that exact price, tied for the lowest entry point among the seven services on this page. The most expensive single plan is Netflix Premium at $24.99, and everything between those two numbers sits in the table below, checked against each service's own pricing page this week. None of it holds still. Paramount+ raised both tiers again in January, which is why a pricing page with no date on it is really just a rumor wearing a nicer font.

What does every plan cost right now?

Prime Video is the row that needs a second look. The $8.99 standalone plan is real, but most subscribers reach Prime Video through the full Amazon Prime membership instead, at $14.99 a month or $139 a year. Work the annual number and it prices out to $11.58 a month before you've added a single thing. Then there's the Prime Video Ultra add-on, which launched April 10, 2026, stacking another $4.99 a month on top for 4K and an ad-free picture.

Apple TV+ skips the whole debate: one price, $9.99, no ads, nothing to compare it against.

What's the real toll for going ad-free?

Every ad tier on this page exists to make the tier above it look reasonable. Here's the actual toll, service by service, computed straight off the table above.

*The $14.99 Prime membership plus the $4.99 Ultra add-on.

Average that toll across the six services that actually charge one and you land on $8.25 a month. Annualize it and the ranking gets more interesting than the monthly figure lets on: Prime Video's $10.99 toll is $131.88 a year ($10.99 × 12), the single biggest ad-removal bill on this page, ahead of Netflix's $120.00. Paramount+ stays the cheapest even stretched over twelve months, at $60.00 a year.

What does Max's $7.50 toll actually buy? Nothing but the absence of ads. Premium, with 4K and downloads, costs $22.99 − $18.49 = $4.50 more on top of that.

Netflix runs the widest spread on the whole chart. Its $7.99 ad plan ties for the cheapest seat in the building, and its $24.99 Premium is 3.1 times that same entry price. Split Premium across the four screens it allows ($24.99 ÷ 4 = $6.25 a screen) and it's cheaper per viewer than the ad tier itself, which is the quiet math that keeps whole households parked on the top plan while telling themselves it's the expensive one.

Peacock's naming deserves a flag here too. The $10.99 tier is called "Premium" and still runs ads, so the word is doing some quiet lying. Truly ad-free Peacock is Premium Plus at $16.99, a $9.00 climb from Select.

Paramount+ charges the smallest toll on the page, $5.00, and its $13.99 Premium folds in Showtime, making it the cheapest ad-free door among every service that runs ads at all. Apple TV+ never charges a toll, because there's no ad tier to escape from in the first place — which is either the most honest pricing on this list or the least generous, depending on how you feel about $9.99 a month with no cheaper option underneath it. We put the two head-to-head in Apple TV+ vs. Paramount+ if that's the actual decision in front of you.

What does the full lineup cost, top to bottom?

Subscribe to the cheapest tier of all seven services and the bill is $64.93 a month, ads included, or $779.16 a year. Go Premium across the board (Netflix Premium, Max Premium, Disney+ Premium, Prime plus Ultra, Apple TV+, Paramount+ Premium, Peacock Premium Plus) and the same lineup costs $127.92 a month, or $1,535.04 a year.

Nobody should pay that.

The annual gap between those two stacks is $755.88. Add up all seven monthly ad-removal tolls, Apple TV+'s honest $0.00 included ($10.99 + $10.00 + $9.00 + $7.50 + $7.00 + $5.00 + $0.00 = $49.49), multiply by twelve, and $593.88 a year is pure ad-removal. The remaining $162.00 buys whatever got bundled in on the way past: Netflix's extra screens, Max's downloads, Prime Video's 4K, Paramount+'s Showtime. You're paying for the upsell riding on top of the upsell.

Divide by thirty and the full Premium lineup runs about $4.26 a day ($127.92 ÷ 30) against $2.16 a day for the cheapest version ($64.93 ÷ 30). Smaller-sounding numbers. They still repeat every single day, watched or not.

If your shortlist is the three biggest catalogs, price won't make the call for you. All three ad-free mid tiers sit within $1.50 of each other, $16.99 to $18.49. Our Netflix vs. Max vs. Disney+ breakdown covers what each one actually carries, which will.

Who moved their prices, and when?

Paramount+ raised both Essential and Premium effective January 15, 2026, per Deadline's streaming pricing tracker, the most recent outright increase among the majors. Amazon went sideways instead of up: the Ultra add-on arrived April 10, 2026, at $4.99, setting a new $19.98 ceiling for the full Prime Video setup.

Annualized, that $19.98 ceiling is $239.76 a year ($19.98 × 12), which is less than Apple TV+ and Paramount+ Premium combined ($9.99 + $13.99 = $23.98 a month, $287.76 a year). That tells you something about how Amazon prices Prime Video: not as a line item you'd pick on its own merits, but as an add-on to a membership you already have.

Several services raised prices during 2025, then Paramount+ opened 2026 with another round. If it feels like the moment you finally settle on a lineup is the moment one of them moves, that's roughly the pattern.

Two variables sit under every sticker price here. None of these figures include local sales tax, which varies by state or region and gets added at checkout, so your card gets charged a touch more than the table shows. And outside the US, each service prices independently — the UK or Australian figure is set locally, not converted from the US number, so check the local pricing page before comparing across borders.

How do you actually spend less?

Three moves, ranked by effort.

Take annual billing wherever it exists. Amazon's $139 annual Prime prices out to $11.58 a month against $14.99 on the monthly plan, which is $40.88 a year back in your pocket for picking a different billing cycle. Free money.

Rotate the rest. Every plan on this page is month-to-month, so use that: subscribe the month something you actually want arrives, watch it, cancel, move to the next one. Arrivals are trackable. We covered Project Hail Mary landing on Prime Video and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie heading to Peacock, and this weekend's box office results are a decent leading indicator of what reaches a service next, since home dates tend to get announced alongside the theatrical numbers. For the gap before something lands, our guide to watching movies still in theaters at home covers the rental route.

Keep ads wherever the viewing forgives them. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie playing in the background for a five-year-old does not need an $8.25 toll paid on its behalf. Save the ad-free money for the movie you're actually sitting down for, and pay that toll on one service at a time, not all seven at once.

What moves next?

If 2025 and early 2026 are the template (a handful of increases, then Paramount+ again in January), at least one number in the first table above moves again before 2027. When it does, this page moves with it.

Methodology

Prices come from each service's own pricing page or a same-week primary report (Tom's Guide, Deadline), cross-checked before publishing. Recent changes, like Paramount+'s January increase and Prime Video's Ultra add-on, are dated and flagged as changes instead of being blended into old figures. The page gets rechecked on a rolling basis, and the Updated date above only moves when something substantive does.

Photo: "Apple TV 4K (4th Gen) with Touch Remote Control" by Smart Home Perfected, licensed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.