How much does Spotify cost?

Spotify publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Free up to $21.99/month for Premium Family. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Spotify have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers ad-supported listening, standard audio quality. Paying starts at $6.99/month for Premium Student.

What is the difference between Free and Premium Student on Spotify?

Premium Student costs $6.99/month against Free, and adds 1 verified account for eligible students, hulu access included, ad-free listening, offline downloads.

Is the Premium Family plan on Spotify worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is up to 6 accounts for family members at same address, parental controls, premium for members under 13. It costs $21.99/month against $6.99/month for Premium Student. 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 Spotify have a free tier: StubHub, The Roku Channel, mpv, Infuse, IINA.

What am I actually paying for with Spotify?

The record lists 34 features across 6 areas: other, 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 5 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?

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

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Spotify pricing

Spotify publishes 5 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, Spotify pricing is free, then $6.99/month across 5 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 $6.99/month
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 5
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.

Spotify pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	2	Entry tier
Premium Student	$6.99/month	5	+$6.99/month, 5 more features
Premium Individual	$12.99/month	7	+$6/month, 5 more features
Premium Duo	$18.99/month	4	+$5.999999999999998/month, 2 more features
Premium Family	$21.99/month	6	+$3/month, 3 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 ad-supported listening, standard audio quality.

Premium Student

$6.99/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

1 verified account for eligible students
Hulu access included
Ad-free listening
Offline downloads
Introductory offer: $0 for 1 month

Premium Individual

$12.99/month

Over Premium Student, this tier adds:

1 account
Full playback control
15 hours/month audiobooks access
Lossless audio
Introductory offer: $0 for 3 months for new customers

Premium Duo

$18.99/month

Over Premium Individual, this tier adds:

2 accounts for couples at same address
15 hours/month audiobooks access for plan manager

Premium Family

$21.99/month

Over Premium Duo, this tier adds:

Up to 6 accounts for family members at same address
Parental controls
Premium for members under 13

Where Spotify stops being free

Free, Free

Ad-supported listening
Standard audio quality

Premium Student, $6.99/month

The first thing you pay for:

1 verified account for eligible students
Hulu access included
Ad-free listening
Offline downloads
Introductory offer: $0 for 1 month

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.

Other

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.

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. Spotify starts at $6.99/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.

Spotify entry price against other Entertainment tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Spotify (this page)	Free, then $6.99/month	freemium	-
Philo	$33/month	Per household per month, single plan	-	vs Spotify
StubHub	Free	Free to browse, two sided transaction fees on buyers and sellers	-	vs Spotify
The Roku Channel	Free	Free, ad-supported; individual paid channel add-ons	-	vs Spotify
mpv	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Spotify
Infuse	Free, then $1.99/month	Per user per month	-	vs Spotify
fuboTV	$73.99/month	Per household per month, tiered plans	-	vs Spotify

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 Spotify badges page.

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: 5 tiers between Free and $21.99/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, and the rest of the category is under best entertainment tools.

Spotify pricing on the vendor's own site

Spotify pricing questions

How much does Spotify cost?: Spotify publishes 5 tiers, from Free for Free up to $21.99/month for Premium Family. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Spotify have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers ad-supported listening, standard audio quality. Paying starts at $6.99/month for Premium Student.
What is the difference between Free and Premium Student on Spotify?: Premium Student costs $6.99/month against Free, and adds 1 verified account for eligible students, hulu access included, ad-free listening, offline downloads.
Is the Premium Family plan on Spotify worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is up to 6 accounts for family members at same address, parental controls, premium for members under 13. It costs $21.99/month against $6.99/month for Premium Student. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Is Spotify expensive for a entertainment tool?: It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 4 entertainment tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $53.5/month; Spotify starts at $6.99/month.
Which entertainment tools can I use without paying?: 5 of the 8 entertainment tools listed alongside Spotify have a free tier: StubHub, The Roku Channel, mpv, Infuse, IINA.
What am I actually paying for with Spotify?: The record lists 34 features across 6 areas: other, 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 5 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?: The closest entertainment tools in this directory are Philo, StubHub, The Roku Channel, mpv. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Spotify covering price, platforms and features.