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mpv pricing
mpv publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the entertainment tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, mpv pricing is free. 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
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
mpv 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.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| mpv | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where mpv stops being free
mpv, Free
- Free and open source under GPL or LGPL depending on build
- No account, subscription or paid tier
- Cross-platform, same engine on every OS
No paid tier on record
mpv lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full mpv 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
- Command line control
- Lua and JavaScript scripting
- Plain text configuration
- Cross-platform
- Minimal on-screen overlay
- Embeddable engine
People bring mpv in for a developer who wants to script or automate media playback rather than click through a graphical app, a linux user who wants a lightweight player without the overhead of a full desktop application shell, someone embedding video playback into another tool or workflow rather than using it as a standalone app, a power user who prefers editing a text config file over navigating a settings panel. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to mpv are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Entertainment
Too few entertainment tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mpv (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Philo | $33/month | Per household per month, single plan | - | vs mpv |
| StubHub | Free | Free to browse, two sided transaction fees on buyers and sellers | - | vs mpv |
| The Roku Channel | Free | Free, ad-supported; individual paid channel add-ons | - | vs mpv |
| Infuse | Free, then $1.99/month | Per user per month | - | vs mpv |
| fuboTV | $73.99/month | Per household per month, tiered plans | - | vs mpv |
| IINA | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs mpv |
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 mpv badges page.
Before you pay for mpv
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
mpv runs on mac, windows, linux, and is published by mpv (open source project) of Open source community project. The full record is on the mpv review, and the rest of the category is under best entertainment tools.
mpv pricing questions
- How much does mpv cost?
- mpv publishes a single tier, mpv, at Free.
- Does mpv have a free plan?
- Yes. The mpv tier costs nothing and covers free and open source under gpl or lgpl depending on build, no account, subscription or paid tier, cross-platform, same engine on every os.
- Which entertainment tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 entertainment tools listed alongside mpv have a free tier: StubHub, The Roku Channel, Infuse, IINA.
- What am I actually paying for with mpv?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a developer who wants to script or automate media playback rather than click through a graphical app, a linux user who wants a lightweight player without the overhead of a full desktop application shell, someone embedding video playback into another tool or workflow rather than using it as a standalone app.
- Does mpv charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 mpv 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 mpv against before paying?
- The closest entertainment tools in this directory are Philo, StubHub, The Roku Channel, Infuse. Each has a side-by-side comparison with mpv covering price, platforms and features.