Plex just increased their prices again, get ready for the flood of newcomers.

[Neminem 1741]

Remote Access Pass Price increase : PleX

[RanmaCanada 544]

Yikes. I hate the fact that they also charge for remote viewing, if your server doesn't have Plex Pass. Talk about making their product worse..

[ebr 16442]

Notice how the Plex Pass is barely even mentioned anymore on their site?

This is just another step in their eventual move away from personal media entirely IMO.

[speechles 2086]

https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-lifetime-plex-pass-pricing/

The price of a Lifetime Plex Pass is increasing on July 1, 2026.

Get this... $749.99. You read that right. I believe with Emby you are getting quite the bargain.

[yocker 1614]

26 minutes ago, speechles said:

https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-lifetime-plex-pass-pricing/

The price of a Lifetime Plex Pass is increasing on July 1, 2026.

Get this... $749.99. You read that right. I believe with Emby you are getting quite the bargain.

Holy.. I thought Adobe were nuts!
Next Plex announcement will be "We hear you about the price! Now you can get it for 45$ a month!!" Tricking people into thinking that will be cheaper. 

How can any one willingly start out with Plex today?

Emby devs: You need to market Emby a bit more!  

[Neminem 1741]

1 hour ago, speechles said:

https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-lifetime-plex-pass-pricing/

The price of a Lifetime Plex Pass is increasing on July 1, 2026.

Get this... $749.99. You read that right. I believe with Emby you are getting quite the bargain.

Are they doing a Broadcom ( VMware ) F¤#K the customers

[RanmaCanada 544]

This price increase by Plex is freaking insane. I guess the millionaires that gave them money are demanding a return. Remember, they did get $50 million quite some time ago and were not exactly turning a profit.

[yocker 1614]

Reading the Plex reddit there are lots of "So what? I already got the pass!"

Yeah well.. Soon they will be Introducing Plex V2 mark my words!
Better yet, it will no longer have any private server function and be a fully Netflix alternative where they just use private peoples computeres as servers.

That price is nothing more than Plex phasing out the lifetime pass.

[TMCsw 275]

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[Gilgamesh_48 1251]

I bought a lifetime plex pass a LONG time ago for something around $200.00. I have no desire to downgrade to Plex but I do wonder if my old Plex Pass is still viable. 
They said it will never expire or lose functionality but Plex has been known to go back on promises or to change something so people have to make repeat purchases. 

As I said I have no desire to use Plex again but it does occur to me that, if they really do screw long time Plex Pass owners that just might dive some of their long time users away. While the price increase itself will not make long time users switch the failure to honor the implied agreements just might. 

However I believe that Plex only attracts the people that do not do any research when they desire a media manager. But Plex is always making a good living by adhering to H. L. Mencken's principal of "No One in This World Has Ever Lost Money by Underestimating the Intelligence of the Great Masses of the Plain People." This is the principal by which people from P.T. Barnum to Trump have amassed great fortunes. Plex is simply following in the footsteps of the great con artists. I can't really fault them for this as it is what has made America great. We are a country that rewards the con man better than we award our heroes. Of course a lot of our heroes are little more than con men (and women).

[AWG97 4]

Well, I am glad I fully switched to Emby. Plex's price increase last year was the main driving force. I really hope Emby will keep the monthly sub at $5.

[speechles 2086]

https://support.plex.tv/articles/sales-tax-information/

That 749.99 is also taxed. Plex taxes the lifetime license. In California for example it is $804 at the cheapest county and $815 in the most expensive. This is their way of saying, so long, and thanks for all the fish. They do not want to support older Plex pass users. Now people with a Plex pass already will feel more value for their previous purchase since they got such a discount earlier, while Plex themselves knows those people who didn't pay full price are now less entitled to their opinion. Whilst those who pay full price for the Plex pass at that ridiculous 749.99 earn some kind of reward for doing so. Where you get some extra something because you actually paid more. Expect that to happen too. The old Plex pass holders aren't entitled to that new something so aren't getting it. Get ready for it.

Edited May 20 by speechles

[Q-Droid 1028]

I doubt anyone will pay that much for a lifetime Plex pass that would take over ten years to break even. As mentioned above this is Plex pretty much getting rid of lifetime passes.

 

[Lane03 14]

4 hours ago, speechles said:

This is their way of saying, so long, and thanks for all the fish.

Love the HGTTG quote.

[marriedman 98]

I said the same thing a year ago:

For some reason, it didn't happen. Forum member Yocker nailed it when he said that people are willing to take a lot of abuse to stay with what is familiar. That's why Microsoft and Google keep eroding personal privacy and freedom. Plex is just taking a page from their playbook.  I would love for Plex to collapse and go under because of this move. Not because I care about the company itself, but I want these type of business practices to fail.

[sh0rty 746]

They want to push new users to monthly/yearly subscription and they doing it by making the lifetime as unattractive as it could be. Monthly/Yearly subscriptions = Monthly/Yearly income.  From their business POV understandable if you look at the Plex path of Enshittification in the last few years. 

Happy that Jelly is a serious competitor on the market beside Emby to keep things going regarding features on all sides, but still using Plex these days is totally nuts imo when you look at specially the stability of Emby which is in no way worse than Plex.

Edited May 20 by sh0rty

[all4dom 102]

Ive never used plex, I started with media browser & have continued with emby. Ive never even looked anywhere else.

[heffeque 85]

Welp, Emby team... take advantage of the situation, and send an announcement or something saying "Our product is awesome with apps available for tons of devices and we aren't disrespecting our users bank accounts!"

[yocker 1614]

3 hours ago, heffeque said:

Welp, Emby team... take advantage of the situation, and send an announcement or something saying "Our product is awesome with apps available for tons of devices and we aren't disrespecting our users bank accounts!"

I hate ads and commercials more than anything else in this world but i have to agree, Emby should take advantage and advertise a little.
How and where i don't know.. Maybe even just a couple of posts on Reddit would do it.

[AWG97 4]

On 5/20/2026 at 5:34 AM, AWG97 said:

Well, I am glad I fully switched to Emby. Plex's price increase last year was the main driving force. I really hope Emby will keep the monthly sub at $5.

On second thought, it's a bit naive of me to believe this. The more popular Emby gets, and depending on how well it competes with Plex, prices will inevitably continue to go up.

[all4dom 102]

@yockeremby is discussed a good bit on reddit forums. I believe lots of people are aware.

[Smitty018210 160]

I'm sorry how much $749.99. What! That is ridiculous. 

[Luke 42555]

I think what they are signaling is that lifetime plans are unsustainable when you consider that several of their features require them to pay monthly license fees. So it's priced to drive users toward the subscription.