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Spotify pricing
Spotify 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.
- Entry price
- Free, then $9.99/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Spotify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Premium | $9.99/month | 5 | +$9.99/month, 5 more features |
| Family | $15.99/month | 4 | +$6/month, 4 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
FreeThe entry tier. It covers ad-supported music, shuffle play, limited skips, spotify connect.
Premium
$9.99/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Ad-free music
- Play any song
- Unlimited skips
- Download music
- High quality audio
Family
$15.99/monthOver Premium, this tier adds:
- 6 Premium accounts
- Individual profiles
- Parental controls
- Family mix playlist
Where Spotify stops being free
Free, Free
- Ad-supported music
- Shuffle play
- Limited skips
- Spotify Connect
Premium, $9.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Ad-free music
- Play any song
- Unlimited skips
- Download music
- High quality audio
What the product covers
The full Spotify 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.
Core
- Music streaming
- Podcast streaming
- Playlist creation
- Music discovery
- Social sharing
- Offline downloads
- Cross-device sync
- Audio quality options
Integrations
- Spotify Connect
- Smart speakers
- Gaming consoles
- Car systems
- Third-party apps
Security
- Account protection
- Privacy controls
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
- Ios support
- Android support
- Smart-speakers support
Localization
- English language support
- Spanish language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Italian language support
- Portuguese language support
- Swedish language support
- Dutch language support
- Polish language support
- Turkish language support
- Japanese language support
People bring Spotify in for music listening, podcast consumption, playlist sharing, music discovery, background music. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Spotify are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Spotify
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 $15.99/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.
Spotify runs on web, windows, macos, linux, ios, android, smart-speakers, and is published by Spotify Technology S.A. of Stockholm, Sweden. The full record is on the Spotify review.
Spotify pricing questions
- How much does Spotify cost?
- Spotify publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $15.99/month for Family. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Spotify have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers ad-supported music, shuffle play, limited skips. Paying starts at $9.99/month for Premium.
- What is the difference between Free and Premium on Spotify?
- Premium costs $9.99/month against Free, and adds ad-free music, play any song, unlimited skips, download music.
- Is the Family plan on Spotify worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 6 premium accounts, individual profiles, parental controls, family mix playlist. It costs $15.99/month against $9.99/month for Premium. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Spotify?
- The record lists 34 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for music listening, podcast consumption, playlist sharing.
- Does Spotify 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 Spotify 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 Spotify against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Spotify to make a useful price comparison.