Spotify Premium Price 2026: Every Plan Compared

Spotify Premium plan comparison showing Individual, Duo, Family and Student prices

Spotify raised its US prices on 15 January 2026, the third increase since 2023. Premium Individual is now $12.99 a month, Duo is $18.99, Family is $21.99 and Student is $6.99. The free, ad-supported tier is untouched, and lossless audio stayed inside every paid plan instead of becoming a separate upsell, which is the detail most comparisons miss.

This page sets out what each Spotify plan includes, where the limits actually bite, and which one is worth paying for depending on how you listen.

Spotify Premium prices at a glance

Plan	Monthly	Accounts	Who it is for
Free	$0	1	Ads, on-demand playback, 160 kbps
Individual	$12.99	1	One listener, every feature
Duo	$18.99	2	Two people at the same address
Family	$21.99	Up to 6	Households, with parental controls
Student	$6.99	1	Verified students, includes Hulu in the US
Audiobooks Access	$9.99	1	Audiobook hours only, music stays on Free

All four music plans carry the same audio ceiling, the same offline downloads and the same catalogue. You are not buying better sound by moving from Individual to Family, only more accounts. That is a change from the 2021 to 2024 era, when the top tier was about features rather than seats.

What every Spotify Premium plan includes

Ad-free music, with no commercial break between tracks.
Lossless audio up to 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC, switched on per device.
Offline downloads on up to five devices, 10,000 tracks each.
Unlimited skips and full on-demand playback of any track, in any order.
15 hours of audiobooks a month from the included catalogue, on Individual, Duo and Family (Duo and Family hours belong to the plan manager).
Spotify Connect, Jam and group sessions, so playback can move between speakers, televisions and phones.

The audiobook allowance is worth pricing separately. Fifteen hours a month is roughly one and a half novels, and the standalone Audiobooks Access plan costs $9.99 for the same fifteen hours while leaving music on the ad-supported tier.

Individual at $12.99: the baseline

One account, one stream at a time, every feature. If you listen alone and mostly on a phone or a laptop, this is the plan and there is nothing above it to buy into. The January increase added $1 a month, or $12 a year, on top of the 2024 price of $11.99.

Two people paying for two Individual plans spend $25.98 a month. Duo costs $18.99 for the same two people at one address, which is a $7 saving that requires no change in behaviour other than sharing a billing address.

Family at $21.99: the maths that decides it

Family covers up to six accounts under one billing address, each with its own recommendations, playlists and Wrapped. Filled completely, it works out at about $3.67 a person. With three people it is $7.33 each, still cheaper than any single plan. With two people, Duo is $3 cheaper and does the same job unless you want the parental controls.

Family also brings Spotify Kids, a separate app with age-banded content, and explicit-content filtering the plan manager controls. For a household with children that alone justifies the plan over Duo.

Spotify verifies addresses. Members are expected to live at the address on the account, and the service periodically asks people to confirm it. Adding a friend in another city is the usual reason a Family plan gets flagged.

Student at $6.99: still the best deal on the market

Verified students at an accredited institution pay $6.99, and in the US the plan bundles Hulu with ads. Verification runs through SheerID and has to be renewed annually, with a four-year cap on the discount. If you are eligible, it is half the price of Individual for identical features.

The free tier is not the same product

Since September 2025, free listeners can play any song on demand rather than being pushed into shuffle, which removed the single biggest reason people upgraded. What free still lacks is offline music downloads, lossless audio, uninterrupted albums and the audiobook hours. If you only stream at a desk on Wi-Fi, free is genuinely enough; our guide to the free tier sets out exactly where the line falls.

How to change or cancel a Spotify plan

Where you subscribed decides where you cancel. Bought in the app on iOS, manage it in Apple's subscription settings; on Android, in Google Play; bought on the web, in your Spotify account page. Cancelling stops the next renewal and keeps access until the paid period ends.

Downgrading from Family to Individual mid-cycle generally credits the difference at the next renewal rather than immediately. Upgrading is usually instant, with the remainder of the old plan converted into time on the new one. Check the confirmation screen before you accept, because the calculation is done by the store, not by Spotify.

Regional pricing varies widely

These are US list prices. India, Brazil, Turkey and Poland all sit materially lower, and purchasing through a region you do not live in breaches the terms and can lock an account. If you travel, Premium keeps working abroad for up to 14 days at a time before it asks you to confirm your country.

Is Premium worth it in 2026

For a daily listener, yes: ads between every few tracks are the entire product difference, and lossless at no extra charge makes the comparison with Apple Music and Amazon Music straightforward. For an occasional listener on Wi-Fi, the free tier now does more than it did a year ago. Read next how Spotify lossless audio behaves on real hardware, and where the offline download limits actually stop you.