Netflix Increases Prices Again

[MacRumors]

Netflix is raising its prices for all plans in several countries, including the United States, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina. The cheapest Standard with ads plan will be $1 more expensive in the U.S., going from $6.99 to $7.99 per month.

The Standard plan's price will increase from $15.49 to $17.99 per month, and the Premium plan will now cost $24.99 per month, up from $22.99 per month. The Standard plan offers 1080p HD video, and the Premium plan is the only plan that supports 4K streaming.

Netflix last increased prices in October 2023, and this is the first price increase the ad-supported plan has seen since its late 2022 launch.

The price hikes were announced during Netflix's Q4 2024 earnings results [PDF], which saw the company report 19 million new subscribers, a quarterly record, and 16 percent revenue growth. Netflix now has over 300 million paying subscribers worldwide, and the company forecasts continued growth in 2025.

On the price increase, Netflix said the following: "As we continue to invest in programming and deliver more value for our members, we will occasionally ask our members to pay a little more so that we can re-invest to further improve Netflix."

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[Momof2.1107]

Wondering what will happen for the customers who have this for free for perks from their mobile provider?

 

[levitynyc]

On the price increase "We wanted more money"

 

[jbachandouris]

Guess it’s time to cancel. Son can pay for his own since he doesn’t live with me and is 19.

 

[sw1tcher]

Called it and right on schedule.

What I'm wondering now is will Netflix stick to their price increase schedule or will it change? If they stick to their schedule, then the next price increase annoucement will be in Oct. 2026. But with Netflix's announcement last April that they're going to stop reporting subcriber numbers in 2025 to focus on revenue growth numbers, I'm thinking we'll see a price increase sooner, maybe in June or July 2026 instead.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Pass the popcorn. This should be about the ninth time everyone is about to promise they are quitting Netflix. I don't know how to quit more than one time but many of us seem to know how to quit 9 or so times. Impressive!

 

[JarvisMeier]

Still glad I canceled and continue to get my Netflix content through torrents.

 

[upthetoffees]

If i could get breaking bad again, or GOT, or.. yea maybe it's worth more, but there's mostly a lot of crap on netflix these days (it's hugely subjective I get that but last time I subbed again to see.. I was very disappointed).

IF netflix bought or enabled the other streamers, even just some of them, then the price hike would be understandable. They buy HBO/paramount, one of the smaller non apple/prime (who will never give up prize and understandably) streamers to make it more interesting?

But no, this is them lifting the price every year, and some people (don't know anyone that subs) will pay, but they are testing the limits. And the limits are way gone for me, there is still good TV out there, but most of it is not on netflix.

It's a problem. But them raising prices all the time and saying "we will occasionally ask our members to pay a little more so that we can re-invest to further improve Netflix" is a huge joke right now.

 

[Steve01234]

meanwhile Apple TV has a couple great shows that are mostly worth the price just for them.

 

[nocsi]

That's why i make sure the money i spend is on nice hardware and not media I don't own. Learn2pirate

 

[macizcool]

They are really pushing the price as high as possible to see when the growth stops.

 

[EM2013]

Who’s gonna be next to increase? Disney, Max?

My money is on Disney to recoup from the flops they’ve been releasing

 

[macduke]

In 9 years, the price has gone from $12/mo to $25/mo.

That's a 108% increase.

That's 8.5% yearly inflation for 9 years in a row.

Cancel your Netflix and any other service pulling this crap. I did a while ago. This is not sustainable.

 

[Daalseth]

Pass the popcorn. This should be about the ninth time everyone is about to promise they are quitting Netflix. I don't know how to quit more than one time but many of us seem to know how to quit 9 or so times. Impressive!

Well I walked away from Netflix well over a decade ago and haven’t looked back. Too much for too poor a quality programming.

 

[maruyama]

Does anyone actually still leave a Netflix subscription running year round? You get such better value swapping out streaming services based on what interests you.

I'm re-subbing to Apple TV+ for Severance right now, and I'll swing back to Netflix at some point to catch up on Arcane and Squid Game.

 

[tmmacops]

I’m at a point where all of these services blow. Movies are terrible, the documentaries are old and tired, and nothing really worth the additional cost.

I’ll do internet only, and do a bunch of trials here/there. Read a book…

 

[LlamaLarry]

Still glad I canceled and continue to get my Netflix content through torrents.

This really is getting to be the way.

 

[eveluvsrainbows]

Does anyone actually still leave a Netflix subscription running year round? You get such better value swapping out streaming services based on what interests you.

I'm re-subbing to Apple TV+ for Severance right now, and I'll swing back to Netflix at some point to catch up on Arcane and Squid Game.

Yes? A lot of people don’t want to re-sub to a service each time they want to watch something so they just leave it alone due to convenience.

 

[UpsideDownEclair]

Remember when streaming services promised to be antithetical to cable? Pepperidge Farms remembers

 

[eveluvsrainbows]

Remember when streaming services promised to be antithetical to cable? Pepperidge Farms remembers

Yeah, and then content increased in production and licensing costs and companies had to adjust their prices to compensate. We live in a society where capitalism is the norm. That’s never going to change lol.

 

[ghostface147]

Thanks WWE.

 

[timber]

What a curious selection.
Always happy to be together with the USA and Canada (and why not Argentina) but perhaps on another occasion.
I could cancel Netflix but I don't plan on rejoining to be able to do that.

 

[green_diyos]

~4hrs daily netlix time is better spent hitting all your rings on Apple Watch.

 

[thecombatwombat]

Netflix has just become cable.

You don't want to watch pro wrestling? Well, Netflix has paid a considerable fortune to carry it, so you still get to pay for it.

 

[Makosuke]

I guess people describing old crimes over slow pans of stock footage and hiring people to pretend to argue over their relationships must cost more than I think.

Seriously, though, while there is some actual good stuff on Netflix, it seems like the vast majority of content is cheap reality stuff and that there is far less worthwhile content there now than there was when a subscription cost like half as much (and didn't have incredibly annoying, badly-timed ads--at least the ad breaks on network TV are positioned where the writers expected them to be).

I still have a subscription because it comes with my T-Mobile plan, but if I was actually paying for it I'd have cancelled years ago.