{"id":137737,"date":"2026-07-04T15:38:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/07\/04\/plexs-24999-five-year-pass-arrives-after-74999-lifetime-pass-price-hike"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:38:57","slug":"plexs-249-99-five-year-pass-arrives-after-749-99-lifetime-pass-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/04\/plexs-249-99-five-year-pass-arrives-after-749-99-lifetime-pass-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Plex’s $249.99 five-year pass arrives after $749.99 Lifetime Pass price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shortly after increasing the lifetime version of the Plex Plan to $749.99, Plex has now introduced a new five-year option. One charging $249.99 for streaming media from your Mac<\/a> to your iPhone.\n<\/p>\n

On July 1<\/a>, Plex significantly increased the cost of its Lifetime Plex Plan from $249.99 to a staggering $749.99<\/a>. While consumers will have missed the boat to get the old pricing, they can still spend $249.99<\/a> on something that’s not quite as everlasting.\n<\/p>\n

Subscribers can sign up for a new five-year Plex Pass. The new option, offered alongside the monthly $6.99 and annual $69.99 subscriptions, gives users a lengthy period of usage without paying a regular subscription.\n<\/p>\n

The price, $249.99, will be familiar to users, since it’s the same as the Lifetime Plex Plan pre-price rise.\n<\/p>\n

Good, but not quite great<\/h2>\n

It does still work out to be a decent deal for Plex users as they’d pay the equivalent of three and a half years of the annual plan for five years of usage. Or just under three years worth of the monthly plan price.\n<\/p>\n

This is a bit of a cost saving for consumers. But it’s not as good as the old Lifetime offer, which did the same thing but without an end date.\n<\/p>\n

The new plan certainly does help soften the blow of the Lifetime price rise to $749.99. But there are still some elements to remember.\n<\/p>\n

The key one is what happens after the five-year period ends. Users will then have to either sign up for a new five-year or equivalent plan, or consider switching to a monthly one instead.\n<\/p>\n

However, they won’t get any grandfathered pricing. Due to the inevitability of price increases over time, you can count on the subscriptions going up in price within those five years.\n<\/p>\n

Consider your streaming choices<\/h2>\n

In justifying the price rise, Plex admitted that it had previously considered removing the Lifetime Plex Pass altogether. While recurring subscriptions sustain long-term development, the lifetime pass does not, and becomes less useful to Plex as time goes on.\n<\/p>\n

The new pricing of that plan “reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.”\n<\/p>\n

The severely high price of the Lifetime pass certainly does make buying one of the lower-tier options more attractive to users. Especially the new five-year option.\n<\/p>\n

However, this also serves as an opportunity for users to consider whether to stick with Plex at all.\n<\/p>\n

Other options exist, such as Jellyfin<\/a>, which is free to use. It offers the same core streaming functionality as Plex, but it requires a little more work to get it up and running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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