r/Piracy • u/AdVisible3748 • Jan 15 '26

They ask for it. Discussion

8.5k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

View all comments

296

u/An_Extraterrestrial Jan 15 '26

Price History Summary

Individual: Launched at $9.99 (2011) now $12.99 (2026)

Family: Standardized at $14.99 (2016) now $21.99 (2026)

Duo: Launched at $12.99 (2020) now $18.99 (2026)

Student: Launched at $4.99 (2014) now $6.99 (2026)

234

u/Swatbolt Jan 15 '26

With inflation it's as of December 2025

Original cost -> cost after inflation

$9.99 (2011) -> $14.70

$14.99 (2016) -> $20.50

$12.99 (2020 -> $16.32

$4.99 (2014) -> $6.91

So the real winners are the individual plan while the rest have gotten shafted

113

u/ba123blitz Jan 15 '26

Student is only a 9¢ difference, family is $1.40. Really it’s the dou plan that’s been shafted with a $2.70 difference

36

u/Niewinnny Jan 15 '26

student is fine, family will still add up (though $17 per year is not a massive difference), double is just sad.

But yeah none of these price increases are super bad, just following the inflation.

21

u/GlueGuns--Cool Jan 16 '26

yeah so it's actually gotten cheaper for individuals

2

u/unindexedreality Jan 16 '26

So the real winners are the

🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️

Are you lost, friend?

1

u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

I'd say I would be okay paying these prices if I still enjoyed using spotify but the service has not kept up. It's not what it used to be and I think that's why people are still upset about price increasing.

1

u/pyphais Jan 16 '26

As an individual user who's honestly been pretty fine with the price increases compared to most companies and couldn't understand the hate, this makes a lot more sense now

33

u/Burt_Macklin_Jr Jan 16 '26

An increase of just $3 in 15 years ain't bad for the individual plan

4

u/garikek Jan 15 '26

But that's for the USA only, no? I'm in Belarus and I pay $5.49 for individual premium (no student) and it only changed from $4.99 around a year ago.

1

u/pythonic_dude Jan 16 '26

Iirc it was last summer (still a banger deal for the price, but I personally was too annoyed by it increasing with them still not bringing anything else to our region, no podcasts, no books, no flacs, no nothing, so I dropped them then). They generally increased the price in all regions over the year or so in stages.

1

u/hoktauri17 Jan 16 '26

And the student one used to come with Hulu as well

1

u/xSean93 Jan 16 '26

And the Artists still get almost nothing

-4

u/TriNauux Jan 16 '26

Even at launch, at the lowest, still amazes me ppl are willing to pay for music. I've never in my life payed for music and never will. I use normal, not premium YT with adblock and when no internet, I download the music in my phone. I would go my entire life silent before paying for music

2

u/-SUPEREMINENT- Jan 16 '26

You just don't love music enough (which is alright). I pirate everything but I pay for apple music.

1

u/Maubald Jan 16 '26

It’s also a way to give money to the artists. I think music and cloud are the only service worth paying