Lifetime Plex Pass price change

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Lifetime Plex Pass price change
Dear Plex Community,

We’re reaching out with an important pricing update. Starting July 1, 2026, the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass will increase to $749.99 USD*.

When we started Plex, we were movie and TV fans who wanted to make something great for people like us. We chose to offer a Lifetime subscription early on because we knew many of our customers would rather pay a higher one-time fee for software that they can depend on every day.

We’ve considered eliminating the Lifetime Plex Pass in the past, given that recurring subscriptions help us sustain long-term development, but we know it’s still a valuable option for many in our community. So instead of retiring it, we’re keeping it available at a price that reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.

What’s changing:
The price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass will increase to $749.99 USD* on July 1, 2026, at 12:01 AM UTC.

What’s not changing:
All current Lifetime Plex Pass holders will continue to have access to all benefits and perks associated with a Plex Pass. (Nothing will change for you.)
Monthly & annual subscription pricing for Plex Pass and Remote Watch Pass will remain unchanged.

You have until 12:01 AM UTC on July 1, 2026, to get a Lifetime Plex Pass at the current price of $249.99 USD*.

If you’ve been considering it, now’s a great time to buy.

The focus for us here at Plex as we move forward is to continue making Plex the definitive app for anyone who loves movies, TV, music, and curating a personal library of content that you control. We’ve heard from you through our surveys, forum posts, and social media, and we take your feedback into account as we develop our roadmap. To learn more about what we’re working on right now, check out our blog or visit us in the forums.

For every library you’ve created, poster you’ve changed, bug report submitted, forum post written, and feature suggestions made, from all of us at Plex, thank you for being here and for continuing to support what we’re building.

You are the reason we keep building.
The Plex Team
 
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Wow what a joke, I created a jellyfin lxc to test alongside Plex, and jellyfin is actually faster than Plex (direct play)
the only thing i hand to Plex is the interface is well polished, but I installed Wholphin and that does very well on the TV.

In the next month I will be fully migrated to Jellyfin and not looking back.
P.S just installed the intro skipper and it works well.
 
Moved away from Plex when the free version could no longer stream movies outside local networks.

Me thinks this is an excuse to discontinue plex pass - "due to lack of demand", then they are going to introduce mandatory monthly pricing.
 
You can still use Plex for free. Or pay monthly / annually. I suppose Plex felt that they not making enough from the lifetime pass and this is their way of killing that.
 
Zuner said:
Wow what a joke, I created a jellyfin lxc to test alongside Plex, and jellyfin is actually faster than Plex (direct play)
the only thing i hand to Plex is the interface is well polished, but I installed Wholphin and that does very well on the TV.

In the next month I will be fully migrated to Jellyfin and not looking back.
P.S just installed the intro skipper and it works well.
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Jellyfin is philosophically very attractive. However, if you care about a lossless, 4K/UHD premium home-theatre experience, Jellyfin has various issues with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, TrueHD, and often requires tedious workarounds.

Plex? Just works.

I love the concept of Jellyfin. I wish it worked well. I wish it was more refined. Unfortunately, it's not.

Plex keeps winning because, despite what they've done with it, it continues to just work.

Also, direct play is direct play -- that's hardware- and network-driven. Nothing is being transcoded.

I bagged my lifetime pass a billion years ago for around £50. Best £50 I ever spent.
 
Ironically since the last increase and feature change my Plex server has been busier than ever with I think 8 different households streaming from me at any one time, so it’s certainly paid for itself.

The multi-user support with kids profiles is probably the most used feature for me.

If they could only make Atmos work with the Apple TV like Infuse.

$750 in the modern world is sheer madness and I’m sure they know that…this is a crazy number they don’t expect anyone to actually pay.

I mean that’s literally more than a PS5 console, it makes no sense on any level. And more than you’d pay for the hardware to run the thing.

If you had said it’s $750 packaged with a NAS I could make sense of it.
 
I thought it was an error and should have displayed in Rands.
So it is $$$ :oops:
R12 531,81 /Voetsek :laugh:
 
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Lycanthrope said:
Jellyfin is philosophically very attractive. However, if you care about a lossless, 4K/UHD premium home-theatre experience, Jellyfin has various issues with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, TrueHD, and often requires tedious workarounds.

Plex? Just works.

I love the concept of Jellyfin. I wish it worked well. I wish it was more refined. Unfortunately, it's not.

Plex keeps winning because, despite what they've done with it, it continues to just work.

Also, direct play is direct play -- that's hardware- and network-driven. Nothing is being transcoded.

I bagged my lifetime pass a billion years ago for around £50. Best £50 I ever spent.
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Sure it could use more refinement which is why i use Wholphin front end, but it's not just a concept, it works very well and as i mention faster than plex.


When is the last time you used Jellyfin, cause I have had no issue playing 4k dolby atmos and vision files. in fact this was the first test when I loaded the LXC.
 
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Jellyfin is the answer, I dropped Plex long time ago.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Ironically since the last increase and feature change my Plex server has been busier than ever with I think 8 different households streaming from me at any one time, so it’s certainly paid for itself.

The multi-user support with kids profiles is probably the most used feature for me.

If they could only make Atmos work with the Apple TV like Infuse.

$750 in the modern world is sheer madness and I’m sure they know that…this is a crazy number they don’t expect anyone to actually pay.

I mean that’s literally more than a PS5 console, it makes no sense on any level. And more than you’d pay for the hardware to run the thing.

If you had said it’s $750 packaged with a NAS I could make sense of it.
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Plex just wants to move all users over to monthly subs.
That being said for the fact that Plex has been running my household for around 15 years, I would pay $750 for it if I had to.
 
calypso said:
Plex just wants to move all users over to monthly subs.
That being said for the fact that Plex has been running my household for around 15 years, I would pay $750 for it if I had to.
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Maybe time I start requesting whiskey payments for all the free loaders on mine.
 
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