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.
Really spammy today with all the Jellyfin glow up and Plex bashing. Plex works great, if you didn’t get a Plex Pass over a decade ago for $20 that’s your loss. Organisations can’t offer great services for free. Eventually Jellyfin will have to start charging, and eventually they will “suck” as well. You young people haven’t been on this rollercoaster long enough to see history repeat itself again and again and again. So have fun with your Jellyfin
You’re conveniently ignoring the part where Plex requires you to have an account on their server and has had a recent data breach. JF has exactly zero risk of that.
The point of self-hosting is that you’re not dependent on a service from a company. You’re literally hosting the service yourself. Also with Plex. So essentially you’re paying them AND you’re doing the work for them.
And no, why would Jellyfin have to start charging? That’s the whole point of FOSS software. They get their money from donations and support programs and whatnot. They don’t have to succumb to the bullshit that is perpetual growth.
This poor sweet summer child suffering from normalised enshitificaton Stockholm syndrome.
Not sure if serious, but you’re aware jellyfin is FOSS and selfhosted, right?
Eventually they will add features or have to add functionality that incurs licensing costs that will have to be passed on to users in exactly the same way as Plex found
[citation needed]
You’ve been around all this time but can’t distinguish between an open source project and a private company’s offerings? Come on now…
With respect, I think you’re misunderstand what FOSS is. You’re applying business logic to a free, open source project, with strong community support. Here is the Jellyfin source code. It includes everything you need to freely build the software including all of it’s history and context. Here are improvements that are currently being reviewed, most of them are not from members of the org, but just users of the software who want to make it better.
Anyone can make a copy, or a new base project as a “fork” and if that new fork is still free where do you think all the donations are going to go?
Why? Why exactly would they have to add something that requires licensing? And if they do, why would the community not simply fork it to remove it?
Money?
Correct. I like keeping my money so I would instantly switch to a free fork.
Why?
Oh wow, look at you!