If you haven’t seen it yet, we recently made the announcement that starting July 1, 2026, the price of “Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads)” will increase to $0.00 USD*. There has been a lot of enthusiasm regarding charge backs, and we’re simply blown away by the community’s response.
As we’ve had a high volume of inquiries, I’d ask if you could please wait until I’m off the support email shift to reach out about this issue. I’ve attached our schedule so you’ll know when it is safe to reach out.
Thanks, and happy streaming!
*Example price in USD. Exact pricing in other currencies may vary.
I decided to bite the bullet and just pay the price increase. I will be looking for other services to use before I am charged again. Does Windows Media Player work well for you guys?
I’m going to pirate it
I bought a plex pass about 5 years ago. I figured it would be a reasonable long term investment. I am starting to think I should have just gone with Jellyfin to start with.
I’m curious, was it a lifetime pass? If so, how does the price increase affect you?
It wouldn’t really, but you should already see “the writing on the wall”. Your own collections aren’t prioritized, and who knows what they’ll do next - putting ads into your own personal collections maybe?
The final straw was when sent that “you need to pay a monthly fee to do remote streaming” email. It was intentionally worded very unclear… and they just so happened to have a “bug” around that time where many users got an error message saying that they needed to buy it, which isn’t true, because I had a lifetime pass on the server.
It didn’t feel ethical for me to continue using Plex, when I needed to explain to some friends and relatives that they should absolutely not give any of their money to Plex.
I just got a refund, I’m moving to Real Player
We’re going to need to double Bezo’s taxes to pay for this.
Can I pay in installments?
Love my jellyfin setup. Podman + roku app is 🤌
This is outrageous! Im four times madder about this than I was before!
Joking aside, I do have a lifetime subscription to Emby, which shares a lot of the same code as Jellyfin. But the lifetime subscription was $99 which I viewed as a thank you donation to the developer(s). In the past 5 years or so it has been an excellent value.
How is emby? I’ve got jellyfin running but…the people I share my media with aren’t exactly tech savvy, so any tiny issue that occurs, I am having to fix it by going to their house.
Is emby, just plex easy? Cause that’s why I started looking at plex until this price increase happened.
Jellyfin is a fork of Emby due to some drama I can’t quite remember. Last I used Emby a few years ago, both looked and operated basically the same as each other.
Jellyfin has made improvements since. I can’t speak for Emby since I switched to Jellyfin.
Emby is jellyfin with extra support and development. The apps came out earlier and for more platforms. It supports IPTV. Theres some pretty responsive forum support. Jellyfin may have these things too, but I chose Emby at the time for its native WebOS app.
it’s a gimmick guys, this is done so the memorial day 75% discount sale sound like a good deal, don’t be sheeple
Thank goodness I got a lifetime Jellyfin license years ago!
Yeah, I really missed the boat getting in on it when it was $0.00…
Now I’d better get it at $0.0 before it shoots up to $0 next year.
I paid $0.02, but due to the penny shortage it rounded down to $0.00.
yeah, the cynic in me thinks they’re just stoking the fomo to get more sales
I just keep getting the cracked versions
Yeah, some dude named jellyfin on Github keeps uploading the latest versions
Eh, I’d rather fork out the money than try the 1% chance GitHub is up to download it. Piracy is a service issue
Just mirror it locally in that small GitHub uptime window.
@Zachariah
@eager_eagle
Have you not heard ? They will stop honoring it after the next update for totally reasonable reasons.
If you are quick you could get the special 20% off discount on your first month that they are offering to their highly esteemed lifetime subscribers !
Wait til John Jellyfin hears about this!
He’s out golfing with
This is how you capitalize on someone else’s mistake. Made me actually laugh.
It reminds me of Apple’s response to Vista’s pricing tiers in 2007.
During the Apple keynote that year they said there was going to be an OS X Basic for $129, an OS X Premium for $129, an OS X Business for $129, and an OS X Ultimate for $129.
Few people even wanted vista for free
Vista pricing tiers were absurd. It still is, but vista was extra.
I’d rather donate $750 to Jellyfin than pay $750 to Plex for Lifetime.
that’s the neat part, you can’t. He does not accept donations. I tried
something is wrong with my instance, I’m not getting any ads here
Thank goodness your subscription fees fund a quick and helpful support department! Open a ticket and they should help restore your ads!
Perhaps you paid x10 extra to get it without ads?
Ooh, good deal.
