News Paramount+ announces price increases

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Paramount+ Set to raise prices


The first change is a price increase to both the streaming service's Essential and Premium plans on Thursday, January 15, 2026. The Paramount+ Essential (ad-supported) plan will increase by $1 to $8.99 per month, and the Paramount+ Premium (ad-free) plan will rise by $1 to $13.99 per month.

The annual plans will see higher increases, although they will still work out to a discount on a monthly basis. The Essential plan will be $89.99 per year ($7.50/month) and the Premium plan to $139.99 per year ($11.67/month). Those are up from $59.99 annually for Essential and $119.99 annually for Premium.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

I'll buy that for a dollar

 

[Danespina]

Essential Month to Month raised by $1.
Essential year plan raised by $30?
The math isn't mathin for me.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

Essential Month to Month raised by $1.
Essential year plan raised by $30?
The math isn't mathin for me.

Because it was only $5 a month if you bought it for a year before... they decided that was too cheap now.

Anyways? I expected like the price to double $1 a month is whatever.

 

[JakePaulMMA]

Essential Month to Month raised by $1.
Essential year plan raised by $30?
The math isn't mathin for me.

They're gonna reduce the prices by 200, 300, 400, 500%!

 

[Adamant]

I knew it. These bastards (all streamers) will look for any excuse to raise prices. And keep raising prices.

 

[Deceasedxo]

Streaming services are doing the exact thing that made people switch from cable to them.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Yeah I was excited about this at first but I will continue to just pirate the product. Here in Canada it's not available and id have to subscribe some sports package that includes a bunch of sports where goofs in matching outfits play with a ball, then the PPVs are still 80 dollars

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

I won't complain because anything is better than paying $80 for a PPV, the price was absurd and disgusting, just think they usually do 12 PPVs a year and sometimes its been 13 PPVs a year, 13x80 = big fat $$$$$$$$$$$$ , it really adds up over time. At least we will have an end to that, I remember buying UFC 40 PPV for $20.95 and you got 5% off if you ordered it 24 hours or longer before the day of the event, now its gone up to $80 and $89.99 for some special 4K thing. Its unreal.

I'm sure Paramount won't be perfect and I heard sometimes the streams are choppy etc, I dunno but anything beats the 80 per month for a PPV.

 

[Oscar Madison]

I went ALL IN for $119.99.

This should keep me out of the Casinos for a bit -- but my neighbors will be in for a show if the Para+ fights deliver.

 

[markys00]

Streaming services are doing the exact thing that made people switch from cable to them.

you have to explain how, cause they are not doing that

 

[Fedorgasm]

Glad I just signed up for a year.

Paramount has until Dec 2026 to convince me they're worth the money. If they get too greedy it's easy enough to switch to piracy.

 

[High Test With da Best]

I'll buy that for a dollar

What, no gif? Or is that reference too old and esoteric to even be gifd? Hilarious reference btw

Yeah I was excited about this at first but I will continue to just pirate the product. Here in Canada it's not available and id have to subscribe some sports package that includes a bunch of sports where goofs in matching outfits play with a ball, then the PPVs are still 80 dollars

That sucks. Many of us remember a time when Canadian MMA and specifically UFC was really gaining a lot of traction. Seems to be very over.

 

[RockyLockridge]

What, no gif? Or is that reference too old and esoteric to even be gifd? Hilarious reference btw


That sucks. Many of us remember a time when Canadian MMA and specifically UFC was really gaining a lot of traction. Seems to be very over.

yeah we were cool for a minuite but back to being trash.

Like if ja rule were a country

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Glad I just signed up for a year.

Paramount has until Dec 2026 to convince me they're worth the money. If they get too greedy it's easy enough to switch to piracy.

Same with me, I just signed up for a year for half price and see how it goes. And I'll make a decision by the end if it's worth continuing.

 

[JakePaulMMA]

I won't complain because anything is better than paying $80 for a PPV, the price was absurd and disgusting, just think they usually do 12 PPVs a year and sometimes its been 13 PPVs a year, 13x80 = big fat $$$$$$$$$$$$ , it really adds up over time. At least we will have an end to that, I remember buying UFC 40 PPV for $20.95 and you got 5% off if you ordered it 24 hours or longer before the day of the event, now its gone up to $80 and $89.99 for some special 4K thing. Its unreal.

I'm sure Paramount won't be perfect and I heard sometimes the streams are choppy etc, I dunno but anything beats the 80 per month for a PPV.

UFC 40 was a 10/10 event.

 

[markg171]

People should've bought their Black Friday sales and avoided this. Or just a wait a week and buy their inevitable Boxing Day sales instead of signing up in January. How are people still so dumb as to randomly sign up for these kinds of things instead of when there's obvious sales? Everybody knew Paramount was getting the UFC, not sure why you'd wait until the first event to pull the trigger instead of getting it 50% off when you had the chance if you were even somewhat considering it.

Also how exactly do you run ads during a livestream? They'd have to be between fights/rounds/waiting for decisions/timeouts, or off in the corners of the stream. You can't just stop mid-fight for a Buffalo Wild Wings commercial. So I'm not sure why you wouldn't just take the ad option if this was mostly for fights.

 

[humdizzle]

i'm subscribed to viprow+ and torrentday

they have excellent deals on streaming services and movies

 

[Tito Tapped]

you have to explain how, cause they are not doing that

Well first look at why people cut the cord in the first place:

-skyrocketing prices
-a bunch of channels they never watch
-ad fatigue
-Streaming taking the original content
-Sports (don't need cable it's offered everywhere)


And then we compare that to how streaming services are operating today

-skyrocketing prices
-a bunch of movies and shows you'll never watch
-ad fatigue
-exclusive content scattered across a dozen platforms
-Sports fragmented into multiple required services

 

[VinceArch]

Is anyone really surprised by this? This was ALWAYS going to happen.