Today we’re announcing an important pricing update. Starting July 1, 2026, the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass will increase to $749.99 USD.
When Plex first started, we were movie and TV fans who wanted to make something great for people like us. We chose to offer a Lifetime subscription early on because we knew many of our customers would rather pay a higher one-time fee for software that they can depend on every day.
We’ve considered eliminating the Lifetime Plex Pass in the past, given that recurring subscriptions help us sustain long-term development, but we know it’s still a valuable option for many in our community. So instead of retiring it, we’re keeping it available at a price that reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.
How do I give others access to my Jellyfin library?
Tailscale, Netbird, or Wireguard, depending on how many people you want to share with and the technical comfort of all parties
My technical comfort is high. Everyone else’s is low
Expose it to the internet in a way you’re comfortable then tell them login details including what to write for the domain.
Or just do what I do and set it up on their TV for them 🤷
Everyone else can learn.
You’re the one with the goods.
Dude, do you have a mom? Have you met a boomer?
Yep.
Ghosted her, and the rest of my family, after they became MAGA nutjobs.
… Are they paying you for this valuable IT service you provide them?
They can always go back to Netflix or Hulu or whatever.
… unless you just do full stack, frontend+backend, custom software deployments… for free…?
I don’t do shit for Boomers, for free.
Tell em to go buy a lawn mower and mow lawns to afford another enterprising local IT expert’s services, or maybe they can introduce themselves to the president of internet piracy with a firm handshake or something, I’m sure that’ll work.
If they throw a temper tantrum, remind them the full term is Baby Boomer.
I assume, you are askink how to allow remote (as in outside of your network) access. There are multiple options to achieve this goal:
Duckdns & nginx proxy manager. I don’t know what you’re using to run your server, but look up those two services; they’re not difficult to set up and they work well.
Make them a user, give them the login.
Exposing your jellyfin on the Internet is much more difficult and requires knowledge of networking and security best practices. It is not as easy as “just giving someone a login” though for those with the know how I would easily recommend it over Plex.
I mean I’ve done it, it required buying a cheap domain and I found out most people don’t give a crap about my server even if I offer them access 🥲
Do we know if Plex has been audited? Or is just that it is so much easier to do and Plex says it is secure so people think it is secure? That is often the case with closed source software.
Not the point. When setting up remote access Plex is easy, Jellyfin is not.
Yes that is true, but the commenter I replied to specifically mentioned security and it always comes up when people compare the two that Jellyfin security isn’t great.
You’re thinking of Plex