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.
Is this a joke? Jellyfin is free.
“Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads)” will increase to $0.00 USD*
Does this look like a joke to you? Jellyfin and their typical price hikes. They’ll probably cut the pay of their volunteers next, if I had to guess.
This is very serious…
…now it’s free x 4.
I recall a lot of people commenting how they were really happy with jellyfin after the plex increase
WHEREZ DO SUBSCRIBE JELLYFLIN?
Link to article?
What a ripoff. I’ll be moving to plex thank you very much.
So… I 100% support anyone that wants to sail the high seas; yet at the same time… I cannot imagine going through the trouble of setting up anything to download the trash content that’s created these days.
We barely get one decent movie a year, and there’s been 3 tolerable television shows since 2005… why the fuck does anyone even want this?!?
If you can’t see why people subjectively like new stuff, that’s not something anyone can really help you with. You’re welcome to watch the office or whatever on repeat for the rest of your life, or simply not watch TV, but to say you fundamentally can’t understand why anyone would watch anything new says more about you than them.
To archive the good ones, because you are correct. Modern stuff is mostly just crap.
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 was using VLC, but after they converted their cost into a subscription platform of $0 a month I had to move. Was going to use Jellyfin, but now this… Guess I’m gonna have to start putting all my media on film
I heard on AIM that Winamp is good.
It really kicks the llama’s ass!
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.
Why? That investment is paying off as it’s now significantly higher priced and has more features behind it.
Jellyfin is not as good as Plex. The client is worse, the streaming options are worse, and the remote streaming and sharing is insecure and costs extra to do even remotely, pun intended, securely.
I’m curious, was it a lifetime pass? If so, how does the price increase affect you?
Yeah, the reality is that the people who bought the Lifetime pass a few years ago have gotten their money’s worth several times over. Hell, in my first year alone, it saved me more money on streaming services than I spent on the lifetime pass. So I made my money back in less than a year.
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.
Yep, it’s not a bug until they get called out.
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?
I’m going to pirate it
This is outrageous! Im four times madder about this than I was before!
That’s almost 5 times!
Love my jellyfin setup. Podman + roku app is 🤌
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.
if taco johns sold it for that, it’d cost you $0.05. they round even 1c or 6c up to the next higher nickel.
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 !
