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.
Is this a joke? Jellyfin is free.
This is very serious…
…now it’s free x 4.
“Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads)” will increase to $0.00 USD*
Does this look like a joke to you? Jellyfin and their typical price hikes. They’ll probably cut the pay of their volunteers next, if I had to guess.
What a ripoff. I’ll be moving to plex thank you very much.
Same! They only tripled their price! Guess who’s winning now.
WHEREZ DO SUBSCRIBE JELLYFLIN?
lol they got me.
Thank goodness I got a lifetime Jellyfin license years ago!
Yeah, I really missed the boat getting in on it when it was $0.00…
Now I’d better get it at $0.0 before it shoots up to $0 next year.
yeah, the cynic in me thinks they’re just stoking the fomo to get more sales
So true! But I found a trick where you can get Jellyfin cheap if you buy it pretending to be a resident of another country. Here’s some prices:
- Vietnam - 0₫ (VND)
- India - ₹0 (INR)
- Indonesia - Rp0 (IDR)
- Philippines - ₱0 (PHP)
- Thailand - ฿0 (THB)
- Mexico - Mex$0 (MXN)
- Brazil - R$0 (BRL)
- South Africa - R0 (ZAR)
- Turkey - ₺0 (TRY)
- China - ¥0 (CNY)
- Malaysia - RM0 (MYR)
- Egypt - E£0 (EGP)
- Argentina - AR$0 (ARS)
- Japan - ¥0 (JPY)
- South Korea - ₩0 (KRW)
- Singapore - S$0 (SGD)
- Australia - A$0 (AUD)
- New Zealand - NZ$0 (NZD)
- Canada - C$0 (CAD)
- United Kingdom - £0 (GBP)
- European Union countries - €0 (EUR)
- United States - $0 (USD)
I paid $0.02, but due to the penny shortage it rounded down to $0.00.
if taco johns sold it for that, it’d cost you $0.05. they round even 1c or 6c up to the next higher nickel.
In Ukraine, you’d regularly get a box of matches instead of the equivalent of pennies in small stores because they’re nigh useless there
I just keep getting the cracked versions
Yeah, some dude named jellyfin on Github keeps uploading the latest versions
Eh, I’d rather fork out the money than try the 1% chance GitHub is up to download it. Piracy is a service issue
Just mirror it locally in that small GitHub uptime window.
@Zachariah
@eager_eagle
Have you not heard ? They will stop honoring it after the next update for totally reasonable reasons.
If you are quick you could get the special 20% off discount on your first month that they are offering to their highly esteemed lifetime subscribers !
I recall a lot of people commenting how they were really happy with jellyfin after the plex increase
I am really happy with Jellyfin after giving up on Plex, after realizing they really do not care about their customers/users. We have a bug on LG TVs where Plex is incredibly sluggish, both to start up and to navigate. Even moving between elements on a single screen takes like 1.5 seconds.
Been a known bug to the developers for about a decade going by the forums. Devs have responded to this. They won’t respond anymore. They don’t care.
I openly suggested in the forum posts there, that people should move to Jellyfin, and that I was doing the same. Enough is enough. Plex used to be quite performance on my TV.
Jellyfin just flies, with the exact same library access.
Is it any better on a streaming box? Most smart TVs are slow as shit at everything. I have an LG and haven’t even bothered with the smart functions. If I made decisions, smart TVs would be best effort, always.
I don’t know what a streaming box is exactly but,
Most smart TVs are slow as shit at everything.
I don’t think that’s an excuse when all you need to do is show some pictures and text on screen, not even animate them. The video playing part works great, and streaming at UHD HDR 5.1 works fine. It’s just the navigation part that Plex doesn’t do well.
And like I said, it’s even less of an excuse when Jellyfin doesn’t have the same issue on the same hardware.
Another indication that Plex is doing something shitty is that the TVs own screensaver frame rate stutters when Plex is the open application. But not with any other app. So Plex clearly has some kind of working loop in the background that completely fucks its performance.
Welp, it’s a good thing Jellyfin works for you.
Jellyfin just flies
Idk about “flies”, but it’s tolerable. On older TVs it remains clunky, but usable. Also, definitely has it’s share of bugs. But that’s FOSS for you. I’m not going $750 out of pocket for it.
I have a TV from 2019, it surely flies on that. Compared to Plex anyway, with its 1–2s just to move a square outline from one movie poster to another movie poster, same hardware, same library. It’s ridiculous. Jellyfin master race.
Also curious what kind of bugs you are encountering? I haven’t seen any as of yet. Maybe one, where you are sometimes unable to back out of playing media with the remote back button and have to aim-click it with the cursor and middle button. Other than that I haven’t seen anything else.
I have a TV from 2019, it surely flies on that.
I’ve got a newer TV from 2021 and it’s great. On an older one from 2015 it surely does not.
Also curious what kind of bugs you are encountering?
Outside the latency, the biggest problem I have is matching shows to their metadata. Anything Disney related (Hocus Pocus, for instance) wants to tie itself to something totally random. Some anime (Frieren) refused to recognize the second season and keeps matching episodes to Season 01 titles/screenshots.
It’s not the end of the world, but it’s annoying and cumbersome. I’ve heard Sonarr/Radarr integration help, but then I’m down a rabbit hole of apps to support apps to support apps.
I just want something seamless and out of the box to organize my digital library, not a second job doing IT work to support a miniature Netflix.
I bought a plex pass about 5 years ago. I figured it would be a reasonable long term investment. I am starting to think I should have just gone with Jellyfin to start with.
Why? That investment is paying off as it’s now significantly higher priced and has more features behind it.
Jellyfin is not as good as Plex. The client is worse, the streaming options are worse, and the remote streaming and sharing is insecure and costs extra to do even remotely, pun intended, securely.
I find the clients ok, not great, but I haven’t explored that space much, there are many more options than Plex. Plex seems to be making theirs worse. It actually seems like Plex tries to make my content in their client harder to find.
The real issue is jellyfin is not as good at finding metadata. I’ve overcome this with tinymediamanager, but it still isn’t as good.
For secure remote streaming, I’ve got mine behind caddy with https (caddy does the let’s encrypt dance it’s really pleasant, even works with my free DNS provider), which seems about as secure as Plex was. Are there other security aspects I’m missing that Plex provides?
I’m curious, was it a lifetime pass? If so, how does the price increase affect you?
It wouldn’t really, but you should already see “the writing on the wall”. Your own collections aren’t prioritized, and who knows what they’ll do next - putting ads into your own personal collections maybe?
The final straw was when sent that “you need to pay a monthly fee to do remote streaming” email. It was intentionally worded very unclear… and they just so happened to have a “bug” around that time where many users got an error message saying that they needed to buy it, which isn’t true, because I had a lifetime pass on the server.
It didn’t feel ethical for me to continue using Plex, when I needed to explain to some friends and relatives that they should absolutely not give any of their money to Plex.
Yep, it’s not a bug until they get called out.
It wouldn’t really, but you should already see “the writing on the wall”. Your own collections aren’t prioritized, and who knows what they’ll do next - putting ads into your own personal collections maybe?
A lot of people are too hung up on what could happen, rather than what is happening. I don’t see anything other than my own media since Plex can remember that that’s how I want to use it. In daily use I don’t see any of their additional attempts to generate income. I can share with anyone easily and not expect them to mess with any VPN or other tricks to connect remotely, and neither do I have to set any of that up.
It’s nice that there are good alternatives, but none of them are a complete replacement for Plex. Jellyfin users on lemmy are just in a very special bubble within a bubble.
Yeah, the reality is that the people who bought the Lifetime pass a few years ago have gotten their money’s worth several times over. Hell, in my first year alone, it saved me more money on streaming services than I spent on the lifetime pass. So I made my money back in less than a year.
I’m going to pirate it
I found some guy had the files on github
Love my jellyfin setup. Podman + roku app is 🤌
So… I 100% support anyone that wants to sail the high seas; yet at the same time… I cannot imagine going through the trouble of setting up anything to download the trash content that’s created these days.
We barely get one decent movie a year, and there’s been 3 tolerable television shows since 2005… why the fuck does anyone even want this?!?
If you can’t see why people subjectively like new stuff, that’s not something anyone can really help you with. You’re welcome to watch the office or whatever on repeat for the rest of your life, or simply not watch TV, but to say you fundamentally can’t understand why anyone would watch anything new says more about you than them.
The fact that you responded to my comment says way more about you than me. Good luck.
Sure dude keep trying to convince yourself people have issues for posting comments on comment threads.
What does this have to do with new TV shows and films?
To archive the good ones, because you are correct. Modern stuff is mostly just crap.
Weren’t we archiving that shit in 2013?
I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I’m really glad I did that now
it’s a gimmick guys, this is done so the memorial day 75% discount sale sound like a good deal, don’t be sheeple
I’m never paying for that. Another Open Source software enshit…
Wait, never mind, my wife canceled out JF subscription to be able to buy q new purse and some shoes.
Carry on boys.
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