When subscribing to Spotify Premium, you have four options to consider: Individual, Duo, Family, and Pupil.

Spotify Personal – $9.99 per month

If you’re not a student and don’t plan on sharing with others, you’re probably looking at Spotify’s $9.99 Individual plan. Also known simply as Spotify Premium, the basic plan for solo listeners allows ad-free listening, offline mode song downloads, and on-demand music playback.

Spotify Duo – $12.99 per month

If your roommate or partner also uses Spotify, you may want to consider a Spotify Duo plan. For $12.99 per month, two people can access their own Spotify Premium account. Think of it as two individual Spotify subscriptions for $12.99.

The only catch here is that the two people purchasing the Duo plan must live under the same roof. If they’re not in the same room, the accounts will still be accessible; however, Spotify requires you both to verify that you share the same home address. If it turns out that you will be living apart, your Duo subscription will expire.

Spotify Family – $15.99 per month

If you live at home with your family and all use Spotify, maybe you’ll give Spotify’s Family Plan a long look. For $15.99 per month, six family members can have their own Spotify Premium account.

Spotify will offer you “Family Mix,” which, like Duo Mix, is a playlist curated by Spotify using data collected through its algorithm. Music decided to be liked by all members will appear here. The Spotify Kids app is suitable for children and younger family members.

Again, just like the Duo plan, everyone must verify that they live under the same roof.

Spotify Student – ​​$4.99 per month

Spotify offers college students all the benefits of its premium service at a discounted price. This is the same as a Spotify Personal subscription, which costs just $4.99 per month. If you live in the United States, you also have access to a Hulu (ad-supported) subscription and Showtime.

However, as we mentioned in our special Spotify student article, the Spotify student discount isn’t always available. You can subscribe to Spotify Premium Student for up to four years. At the end of the maximum four years, it doesn’t matter whether you continue studying; you’ll automatically switch back to a standard Spotify Premium subscription unless you cancel.

Apple Music and Spotify premium pricing

Apple’s music streaming services such as Spotify provide users with access to more than 70 million high-quality songs. However, unlike Spotify, you can’t listen if you don’t have a monthly subscription. Apple Music doesn’t have its own ad-supported version of Spotify Free. Instead, you must subscribe to their individual, family, or pupil plans.

Premium Subscription

Like Spotify Personal, an Apple Music Personal subscription costs $9.99 if you pay monthly. Unlike Spotify Personal, Apple Music allows users to purchase an annual subscription at a discount of $99.00 per year.

Apple Music also offers the same student discount as Spotify. Students can sign up for Apple Music Student for $4.99 per month and have access to the same features as a regular individual subscription.

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An Apple Music Family subscription costs $14.99 per month. That’s a dollar less than Spotify’s $15.99 family subscription, which lets you subscribe for up to six people.

Deezer and Spotify premium pricing

Deezer is one of Spotify’s most prominent competitors in the music streaming space. Like Spotify, they make their platform free for listeners and offer the ad-supported Deezer Free subscription level. Additionally, users can choose to subscribe to Deezer Premium, Premium Annual, Pupil, Family, and Hi-Fi.

Premium Subscription

Deezer and Spotify’s premium retail subscription services are priced the same. Like Spotify Premium, Deezer Premium listeners can enjoy ad-free music downloads and offline listening for $9.99 per month. If you want to subscribe to Deezer’s annual subscription, the monthly cost will be reduced. It’s still paid monthly, but you’re locked into a one-year commitment.

Students can subscribe to Deezer, such as Apple Music and Spotify, at a 50% discount. For just $4.99 per month, students can enjoy all the advanced features of Deezer Premium. Unlike Spotify, student subscriptions don’t include Hulu or Showtime.

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Up to six family members can join a Deezer Family subscription, which costs the same as Apple Music, $14.99 per month. Again, that’s a dollar cheaper than Spotify’s $15.99 family plan.

Deezer Hi-Fi Speaker

Deezer HiFi is their most premium subscription service. For $14.99 per month, listeners get ad-free listening, on-demand playback, personalized recommendations, unlimited song access, offline listening, 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC files, 360 reality audio, and of course, high-quality audio. To most people, this may seem a bit unnecessary. However, the added quality will be a boon to music fanatics.

Pandora and Spotify premium pricing

Pandora was founded in January 2000 and has been around longer than Spotify. They have ad-free support for listening levels and Pandora Plus, senior individuals, senior students, senior military, and senior families.

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For just $4.99, you can subscribe to Pandora Plus. This is a step down from their premium plan, but best of all, you get personalized stations with no ads, unlimited skips, and limited offline listening access. You can also search and play whatever you want by watching ads.

Premium Subscription

Pandora Premium Personal costs $9.99 per month. This is an account that gets ad-free personalized music, unlimited skips, and unlimited offline listening. With Pandora Premium you can search and play any content you want without watching ads. You also have the option to create and share playlists.

Pandora Premium Student offers you the same features as Pandora Premium Personal. However, the price for this plan is the same as all the other student discounts discussed previously: $4.99. You must verify your student status before you can take advantage of this discounted rate.

Pandora offers discounts to users with military status called Pandora Premium Military. This requires subscribers to verify their military status through SheerID, after which they will only pay $7.99 instead of $9.99.

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Pandora Premium Family costs $14.99 per month, which is $1 less than Spotify’s family plan. It includes up to six separate accounts, a shared playlist, personalized music with no ads, the ability to search and play whatever you want, unlimited skips, unlimited offline listening, and create and share Playlist capabilities.

Tidal vs. Spotify Premium Pricing

Tidal and Spotify are two of the most popular music listening platforms. Both offer excellent music quality and an enjoyable user experience. However, Tidal is about extreme, consistent listening quality and artist-listener relationships, while Spotify leans toward the social side of things. With Spotify, more integrations with social media platforms like Facebook and DiscordF are possible.

Their pricing structures also differ in several ways.

Premium Subscription

Tidal offers two different premium plans for individuals. The first is Tidal HiFi, which costs $9.99 per month. Tidal HiFi offers sound quality up to 1,411 kbps, access to more than 80 million songs and 350,000 videos, the ability to listen offline with unlimited skips, and the ability to listen to music ad-free.

The second is Tidal HiFi Plus, which costs $19.99 per month. The difference is that for an extra $10, you get access to “innovative audio formats.” This means Master Quality Audio, Dolby Atmos, Sony 360 Reality Audio, and HiFi. Quality up to 9,216 kbps.

Additionally, artists with HiFi Plus are paid directly, meaning up to 10% of your subscription fee is allocated directly to your most listened to artists.

Student plan

Tidal also offers students two different premium plans with a 50% discount.

Tidal HiFi Student costs $4.99 per month. It has the same benefits as regular Tidal HiFi: sound quality up to 1,411 kbps, more than 80 million songs and 350,000 videos, the ability to listen offline with unlimited skips, and the ability to listen to music ad-free.

Tidal HiFi Plus Student has the same features as Tidal HiFi Plus and costs $9.99 per month.

Family planning

Tidal offers two premium plans for families, allowing up to six separate accounts.

Tidal HiFi Family costs $14.99 per month. All six accounts come with the same benefits as regular Tidal HiFi: sound quality up to 1,411 kbps, more than 80 million songs and 350,000 videos, the ability to listen offline with unlimited skips, and the ability to listen to music ad-free.

Tidal HiFi Plus Family costs $29.99 per month.

Soldiers and first responders

If you are a military member or first responder, you are entitled to a discount on Tidal services. Tidal HiFi for military and first responders is available at a discounted monthly price of $5.99. Tidal HiFi Plus for military and first responders costs $11.99 per month.