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.
Prime Video Ultra
Amazon's Prime Video Ultra launch announcement of 10 April 2026 — read on 26 August 2026.
$4.99 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $4.99/mo — $59.88 a year
- Renews at
- Not published
- Free tier
- None. Requires a paid Amazon Prime membership underneath it.
- Price read from
- Amazon's Prime Video Ultra launch announcement of 10 April 2026
- Checked
- Vendor
- primevideo.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.
Ad-free Prime Video is an upgrade rather than a tier. On 10 April 2026 Amazon replaced the $2.99-a-month ad-free option with Prime Video Ultra at $4.99 a month, a two-dollar increase dressed as a product launch, alongside 4K, more concurrent streams and a higher download cap.
Because it sits on top of a membership, the honest cost of ad-free Prime Video is this figure plus the Prime membership recorded separately on this ledger — not $4.99 on its own.
A note on this record’s source. Every other price on the streaming ledger was read on the vendor’s own page. This one was not: on 26 August 2026 we could not load an Amazon page that stated it. The figure comes from Amazon’s own launch announcement of 10 April 2026 as reported at the time, and it carries a lower confidence than the rest of this ledger until we can read it on an Amazon screen.
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