How much does Crunchyroll cost?

Crunchyroll publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $9.99/month for Mega Fan. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Crunchyroll have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers limited anime, ads. Paying starts at $7.99/month for Fan.

What is the difference between Free and Fan on Crunchyroll?

Fan costs $7.99/month against Free, and adds ad-free, simulcasts.

Is the Mega Fan plan on Crunchyroll worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is offline viewing, 4 streams. It costs $9.99/month against $7.99/month for Fan. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which entertainment tools can I use without paying?

5 of the 8 entertainment tools listed alongside Crunchyroll have a free tier: StubHub, The Roku Channel, mpv, Infuse, IINA.

What am I actually paying for with Crunchyroll?

The record lists 13 features across 4 areas: other, integrations, security, platform. In practice it is brought in for anime watching, manga reading.

Does Crunchyroll charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Crunchyroll prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Crunchyroll against before paying?

The closest entertainment tools in this directory are Philo, StubHub, The Roku Channel, mpv. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Crunchyroll covering price, platforms and features.

Entertainment · pricing

Crunchyroll pricing

Crunchyroll publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Crunchyroll pricing is free, then $7.99/month across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free, then $7.99/month
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Crunchyroll plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Crunchyroll pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	2	Entry tier
Fan	$7.99/month	2	+$7.99/month, 2 more features
Mega Fan	$9.99/month	2	+$2/month, 2 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers limited anime, ads.

Fan

$7.99/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Ad-free
Simulcasts

Mega Fan

$9.99/month

Over Fan, this tier adds:

Offline viewing
4 streams

Where Crunchyroll stops being free

Free, Free

Limited anime
Ads

Fan, $7.99/month

The first thing you pay for:

Ad-free
Simulcasts

What the product covers

The full Crunchyroll feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Anime streaming
Simulcasts
Manga
Games

Integrations

Smart TVs
Gaming consoles

Security

Parental controls
Profile management

Platform

Web support
Ios support
Android support
Smart-tv support
Gaming-consoles support

People bring Crunchyroll in for anime watching, manga reading. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Crunchyroll are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Entertainment

Across the 4 entertainment tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $53.5/month. Crunchyroll starts at $7.99/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.

Crunchyroll entry price against other Entertainment tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Crunchyroll (this page)	Free, then $7.99/month	freemium	-
Philo	$33/month	Per household per month, single plan	-	vs Crunchyroll
StubHub	Free	Free to browse, two sided transaction fees on buyers and sellers	-	vs Crunchyroll
The Roku Channel	Free	Free, ad-supported; individual paid channel add-ons	-	vs Crunchyroll
mpv	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Crunchyroll
Infuse	Free, then $1.99/month	Per user per month	-	vs Crunchyroll
fuboTV	$73.99/month	Per household per month, tiered plans	-	vs Crunchyroll

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Crunchyroll badges page.

Before you pay for Crunchyroll

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $9.99/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Crunchyroll runs on web, ios, android, smart-tv, gaming-consoles, and is published by Sony Pictures Entertainment of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Crunchyroll review, and the rest of the category is under best entertainment tools.

Crunchyroll pricing on the vendor's own site