Index
What subscriptions cost over time
An unweighted basket of the services we track, rebased to 100 at the first month all of them have a reading. Every point comes from a dated reading of a vendor's own pricing page.
122.50 index, Aug 2026 — up 22.50% since Aug 2024
8 services in the basket. A basket member's price is carried forward between readings, because a subscription nobody told you about is still costing what it cost last month.
Who moved
| Service | Plan | Was | Now | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disney+ | Premium | $6.99 | ~$18.99 | +171.70% |
| Apple TV+ | Apple TV+ | ~$4.99 | $12.99 | +160.30% |
| Peacock | Premium | ~$5.99 | $12.99 | +116.90% |
| Hulu | With ads | $6.99 | $11.99 | +71.50% |
| Netflix | Standard with ads | $6.99 | $8.99 | +28.60% |
| Youtube TV | Base Plan | $64.99 | ~$82.99 | +27.70% |
| Paramount+ | Essential | ~$7.99 | $8.99 | +12.50% |
| HBO Max | Basic with Ads | ~$9.99 | $10.99 | +10% |
A service appears here only once it has two readings on different dates. One reading is not a trend, and showing it at 0% would imply we had checked twice. A ~ marks a figure taken from a report at the time rather than read off the vendor's own page.
Readings come from each vendor's own pricing page and are stored with the date and the source URL; where a historical price predates our tracking it is entered by hand from a cited source and marked as such. The whole series is derived from that table and nothing else.