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.
Netflix Premium
Netflix's Help Centre plan page — read on 22 August 2026.
$26.99 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $26.99/mo — $323.88 a year
- Renews at
- Not published
- Free tier
- None.
- Price read from
- Netflix's Help Centre plan page
- Checked
- Vendor
- netflix.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 top plan from Netflix is $26.99 a month, raised two dollars on 26 March 2026. Held for a year that is $323.88, which is more than the published annual price of any other single subscription on this ledger by a wide margin.
What the extra buys is capacity rather than catalogue: four simultaneous streams instead of two, 4K with HDR, and room for up to two extra members at $7.99 each a month with ads or $9.99 each without. The library is the same one the $8.99 plan gets.
As with the rest of the Netflix range there is no annual option, no free plan and no stated renewal price. The price is monthly, it is the same every month, and it changes when Netflix announces that it has changed.
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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.