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Spotify Premium plans and prices (November 2026): Individual, Duo, Family and Student compared

Short answer: as of our November 8, 2026 check of spotify.com, Spotify Premium in the US is $12.99 a month for Individual, $18.99 for Duo, $21.99 for Family and $6.99 for Student. All four went up in January 2026, the third US increase since July 2023, after Individual sat at $9.99 for twelve years.

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How much does Spotify Premium cost in 2026?

Spotify's US Premium page (spotify.com/us/premium) lists four Premium plans, all billed monthly in US dollars. We save that page every day, and these are the prices it showed on November 8, 2026. They have not changed since we started saving it on October 13, 2026.

New subscribers who haven't tried Premium before get the first month for $0 on Individual and Student, then the monthly price above. Duo and Family show no free month on the page. There is also an Audiobooks Access plan (15 hours a month of audiobook listening, with music on the free, ad-supported tier), but the page gives no price for it, so check Spotify's page before you count on it.

What each Spotify Premium plan includes

Premium Individual ($12.99)

Premium Duo ($18.99)

Premium Family ($21.99)

Premium Student ($6.99)

Which Spotify plan is cheapest per person?

Using the November 2026 prices, and assuming every slot on a shared plan is used:

Duo and Family both require members to live at the same address, so they are not a way to share with friends elsewhere. Only the plan manager on Duo and Family gets the 15 hours of audiobook time.

Spotify price history: every US increase since 2011

These are US monthly list prices from Spotify's own newsroom announcements and press coverage (sources below). The Individual plan launched in the US on July 14, 2011.

Individual: $9.99 (July 14, 2011), $10.99 (July 24, 2023), $11.99 (June 3, 2024) and $12.99 (January 15, 2026). That is three increases and +30% in total, all since mid-2023.

Duo: $12.99 (July 2020), $14.99 (July 24, 2023), $16.99 (June 3, 2024) and $18.99 (January 15, 2026). That is three increases and +46%.

Family: $14.99 (October 2014), $15.99 (April 2021), $16.99 (July 24, 2023), $19.99 (June 3, 2024) and $21.99 (January 15, 2026). That is four increases and +47%. When Family launched in 2014, $14.99 covered two people with extra members costing more; in May 2016 it became $14.99 for up to six.

Student: $5.99 after both the 2023 and 2024 increases, then $6.99 from January 2026, as MacRumors reported from Spotify's announcement.

In the January 2026 increase, Individual and Student went up $1 a month and Duo and Family $2. Spotify said Premium subscribers in the US, Estonia and Latvia would get an email over the following month, and MacRumors reported that existing subscribers moved to the new price at their next billing date while new subscribers paid it right away.

How often does Spotify raise prices?

For twelve years it didn't: Individual stayed at $9.99 from 2011 to July 2023. Since then Spotify has raised US Premium prices three times in about two and a half years: July 2023, June 2024 and January 2026. The gaps were about 10 months and then about 19 months. No new US increase had been announced when we checked on November 8, 2026.

What Spotify's terms say about price changes

Spotify's Terms of Use, which we also save daily, say Spotify "will communicate any price changes to you in advance" and that a new price takes effect at the start of your next subscription period. Staying subscribed after that counts as accepting it:

If you do not agree to a price change, you can reject the change by unsubscribing from the applicable Paid Subscription prior to the price change going into effect.

On cancelling, the terms say you can cancel at any time from your Account page; cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period you cancel in, you drop to the free version, and "unless otherwise required by law, we do not provide refunds or credits for any partial subscription periods." If you pay through a third party, the terms tell you to contact that company about refunds or managing the subscription.

Free trial: 1 month again since November 1

From October 20 to October 31, 2026, Spotify's US page offered new Premium Individual subscribers two free months. That offer ended on schedule, and since November 1 the page has offered one free month on Individual and Student, then the full monthly price. Our coverage of both changes is linked below.

What you can do

  1. Check your plan and price on your Spotify Account page, and whether you are billed by Spotify or by another company.
  2. Match the plan to your household. If two people at one address each pay for Individual, Duo is $6.99 a month cheaper. For three to six people at one address, Family ($21.99) costs less than Duo plus an Individual plan ($31.98).
  3. Students: if you're at an eligible accredited college or university, Student is $6 a month less than Individual and includes the Hulu offer, subject to eligibility.
  4. When a price-change email arrives, you can cancel before the new price takes effect to reject it, per Spotify's terms. Cancelling keeps Premium until the end of the period you've paid for, with no partial refund.

How we keep this page current

QuietlyChanged saves Spotify's US Premium page and its Terms of Use every day and records what changes. This guide is updated when that snapshot or our sourced price history changes. The Spotify service page has the same price history with a chart and a dated timeline.

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