What streaming costs a year in 2026
Every major service, its ad tier, its ad-free tier, the annual option where one exists, and what it renews at. Prices read from the vendors' own pages on 22 August 2026.
Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max Bundle (No Ads)
The plan pages at disneyplus.com and hbomax.com, which show the same figure — read on 26 August 2026.
$32.99 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $32.99/mo — $395.88 a year
- Renews at
- Not published
- Free tier
- None.
- Price read from
- The plan pages at disneyplus.com and hbomax.com, which show the same figure
- Checked
- Vendor
- disneyplus.com
“Not published” means we did not find a renewal price stated by the vendor on the date we checked. It is not a claim that the price changes on renewal, and it is not a claim that it doesn’t.
The ad-free version of the three-service bundle: $32.99 a month, again shown identically by Disney+ and HBO Max. Over twelve months, $395.88.
The useful figure is the gap. Going ad-free across the same three catalogues costs $13.00 a month more than the $19.99 tile, or $156.00 a year. That is the price of silence, stated plainly by two vendors at once, and it is a larger premium than most people assume they are paying when they click the nicer-sounding tier.
It is still the cheapest ad-free route to three major catalogues we could read on a vendor page. Assembling the same thing from single subscriptions — where a vendor will even sell you one — runs materially higher, mostly because Netflix is not in this bundle and never will be.
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This is a price record, not a review. We do not rate the product, we track what it charges. The method is on how we check prices; mistakes end up in the corrections log.