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.
Hulu (With Ads)
Hulu's own plan page, where it is listed as "Just Hulu" — read on 23 August 2026.
$11.99 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $11.99/mo — $143.88 a year
- Renews at
- Not published
- Free tier
- None.
- Price read from
- Hulu's own plan page, where it is listed as "Just Hulu"
- Checked
- Vendor
- hulu.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.
On its own sign-up page Hulu calls this one “Just Hulu”, which tells you how the company thinks about it: the standalone plan is the option you land on after declining the bundles stacked above it. It is $11.99 a month, up from $9.99 on 21 October 2025.
It is also the only standalone Hulu plan the page shows. Hulu sells an ad-free tier as well, and an annual prepay for this one, but we could not read either figure on a Hulu page on 23 August 2026 — so neither is printed here. When we can read them, they will be.
Everything else on that page is a bundle: Hulu with Disney+, with Disney+ and HBO Max, or with live TV at seven times this price.
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