Paramount Plus is getting a price hike in early 2026

Paramount Plus is going up successful terms again. As portion of its earnings study released connected Monday, Paramount announced that it volition rise prices for subscribers successful the US connected January 15th, 2026, bringing the ad-supported Essential program from $7.99 to $8.99 per month, portion the ad-free Premium program volition spell from $12.99 to $13.99 per month.

Paramount says the terms summation volition “fuel continued reinvestment successful the idiosyncratic acquisition and present an adjacent stronger slate of programming” going forward. Like galore different streamers, Paramount has hiked the terms of its streaming work connected an astir yearly basis. Paramount Plus raised prices successful 2023 earlier hiking them further past June. It besides precocious raised prices successful Canada and Australia.

The terms alteration comes conscionable months aft Paramount completed its woody to merge with Skydance, kicking disconnected immoderate large shifts astatine the company, including mass layoffs and the appointment of The Free Press laminitis Bari Weiss arsenic the caput of CBS News. Paramount has besides announced that it volition necessitate employees to instrumentality to the bureau full-time, 5 days a week, starting successful January.

During Skydance’s archetypal fewer months of ownership, Paramount Plus added 1.4 cardinal subscribers, bringing its full to 79.1 million. Paramount struck a $7.7 cardinal deal that volition bring unrecorded UFC fights to its streaming work arsenic well.

Along with terms hikes, Paramount revealed that it’s “retiring” escaped trials for its streaming work and “reviewing discount practices.” The institution besides plans to update the exertion stack down Paramount Plus and its free, ad-supported streaming work Pluto TV to heighten their performance, and is looking into however it tin usage AI to connection amended personalization and recommendations.

Update, November 10th: Added pricing information.