{"id":532899,"date":"2026-07-04T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/532899\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:56:13","slug":"you-can-still-pay-plex-249-99-but-not-for-a-lifetime-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/532899\/","title":{"rendered":"You can still pay Plex $249.99, but not for a lifetime pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/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. <\/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. <\/p>\n

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

Good, but not quite great<\/p>\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. <\/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. <\/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. <\/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. <\/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. <\/p>\n

Consider your streaming choices<\/p>\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. <\/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.” <\/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. <\/p>\n

However, this also serves as an opportunity for users to consider whether to stick with Plex at all. <\/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":"Shortly after increasing the lifetime version of the Plex Plan to $749.99, Plex has now introduced a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-532899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}