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.

  • CreativeCider@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    21 minutes ago

    I bought 10 licenses and will give them away for free. Just answer me the title of your favorite book. First come first served

  • ViceroTempus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 hour ago

    I can barely afford to pay attention, now they want 4x as much? Who the fuck can afford 4 * $0 in the current economy?!

  • ifmu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    4 hours ago

    Unbelievable! I just recently switched to and started paying for Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads) to see if I wanted to pay the lifetime license. I’m moving to JamRudder instead! This is a disgrace!!!

  • belunos@lemmus.orgEnglish
    221·
    9 hours ago

    I recall a lot of people commenting how they were really happy with jellyfin after the plex increase

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 hours ago

      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.

      Edit: there’s a second bug which they’ve known about forever as well which is that Plex can’t select the correct audio track no matter which one you select. It’ll just pick English always (or perhaps the default/main track or whatever it is in a video container). Jellyfin handles this flawlessly. 👌

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        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.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          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.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    94·
    12 hours ago

    I decided to bite the bullet and just pay the price increase. I will be looking for other services to use before I am charged again. Does Windows Media Player work well for you guys?

    • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      8 hours ago

      I was using VLC, but after they converted their cost into a subscription platform of $0 a month I had to move. Was going to use Jellyfin, but now this… Guess I’m gonna have to start putting all my media on film

      • BuccaneerScientist@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        5 hours ago

        If you go the film route, consider using 8mm. Even though some people thinks it’s still too experimental i find the file compression to be far superior (one third file size after transcoding my library from VHS -> 8mm film) and they barely burst into flames.

        Besides who has movie nights without drinks nearby you can put on the fire?

        Make sure you use mixed drinks and not hard liquor as that will not put out fire and make your insurance company really annoying.

  • grimacefry@aussie.zoneEnglish
    136·
    3 hours ago

    Really spammy today with all the Jellyfin glow up and Plex bashing. Plex works great, if you didn’t get a Plex Pass over a decade ago for $20 that’s your loss. Organisations can’t offer great services for free. Eventually Jellyfin will have to start charging, and eventually they will “suck” as well. You young people haven’t been on this rollercoaster long enough to see history repeat itself again and again and again. So have fun with your Jellyfin

    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2·
      27 minutes ago

      Organisations can’t offer great services for free.

      The point of self-hosting is that you’re not dependent on a service from a company. You’re literally hosting the service yourself. Also with Plex. So essentially you’re paying them AND you’re doing the work for them.

      And no, why would Jellyfin have to start charging? That’s the whole point of FOSS software. They get their money from donations and support programs and whatnot. They don’t have to succumb to the bullshit that is perpetual growth.

      • grimacefry@aussie.zoneEnglish
        228·
        3 hours ago

        Eventually they will add features or have to add functionality that incurs licensing costs that will have to be passed on to users in exactly the same way as Plex found

        • iegod@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          5 minutes ago

          You’ve been around all this time but can’t distinguish between an open source project and a private company’s offerings? Come on now…

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
          3·
          45 minutes ago

          With respect, I think you’re misunderstand what FOSS is. You’re applying business logic to a free, open source project, with strong community support. Here is the Jellyfin source code. It includes everything you need to freely build the software including all of it’s history and context. Here are improvements that are currently being reviewed, most of them are not from members of the org, but just users of the software who want to make it better.

          Anyone can make a copy, or a new base project as a “fork” and if that new fork is still free where do you think all the donations are going to go?

        • FluffMongo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          3 hours ago

          Why? Why exactly would they have to add something that requires licensing? And if they do, why would the community not simply fork it to remove it?

  • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
    392·
    13 hours ago

    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.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        13·
        10 hours ago

        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.

      • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
        181·
        12 hours ago

        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.

        • amorpheus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          6 hours ago

          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.

    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
      59·
      9 hours ago

      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.