What music streaming costs a year
Seven services priced per year rather than per month, plus the annual prepay options three of them sell and four of them do not.
Qobuz
Qobuz Studio offers page (qobuz.com/us-en/music/streaming/offers/studio) — read on 23 August 2026.
$12.99 a month · list price
Also sold at $10.83/mo — $129.96 a year if you keep it for twelve months.
$12.99 a month · on renewal, per the vendor
- Billed
- $12.99/mo — $155.88 a year
- Renews at
- Same — $12.99/mo
- Free tier
- None. One month free, then it bills.
- Price read from
- Qobuz Studio offers page (qobuz.com/us-en/music/streaming/offers/studio)
- Checked
- Vendor
- qobuz.com
Qobuz Studio Solo is $12.99 a month, or $10.83 a month billed annually — the page calls that 17% off.
Note what Qobuz does not do: it never prints the yearly total. The offers page gives you a discounted monthly rate and leaves the multiplication to you. $10.83 × 12 is $129.96, and that is our arithmetic on the vendor’s own figure rather than a number Qobuz states anywhere. We flag it because a per-month-billed-annually price is the single most common way a subscription looks cheaper than the money leaving your account.
Duo is $17.99 a month or $14.99 billed annually; Family, for six accounts, is $21.90 a month or $17.99 billed annually.
There is no free tier — a one-month trial, then it bills. Lossless FLAC up to 24-bit/192 kHz is included on every Studio plan at no extra charge.
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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.