I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and
the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably a good idea to do it soon... ;-)


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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably a good idea to do it soon... ;-)

I heard about that. $750 seems pretty steep.. I bought a lifetime Plex Pass for about $80 6 years ago, and I'm glad I did.

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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably a good idea to do it soon... ;-)

I heard about that. $750 seems pretty steep.. I bought a lifetime
Plex Pass for about $80 6 years ago, and I'm glad I did.

You got a great deal there, for sure.

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about
accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

I don't think I'd spend $750 for it in any case. Maybe $250, but....
don't need it.



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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an
upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change
takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current
$250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members
are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not
be changing.

If you've been thinking about getting the Lifetime Pass, probably
a good idea to do it soon... ;-)

That's probably what this is all about. getting more people to go for
the 249.99 because of the 749.99 price looming.

I dont trust those guys anymore. I expect them to cut more features or pull out eventually. i switched to emby. it was acting weird at first but i have
it how i want it now.

I'm surprised they are pulling this because a lot of people jumped ship with their other changes.


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On 19 May 2026, Gamgee said the following...

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

interesting. is there just a setting somewhere not to try transcoding? do you have problems with it ever?

i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Tue May 19 2026 08:28 pm

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save bandwidth.

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros for TV shows, which I find handy. Also, if you have a TV tuner, you can use Plex as a DVR to record shows with Plex Pass - I use that to record Jeopardy & a couple other things.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: fusion to Gamgee on Tue May 19 2026 11:02 pm

On 19 May 2026, Gamgee said the following...

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed
for me.

interesting. is there just a setting somewhere not to try
transcoding? do you have problems with it ever?

yes you can turn off transcoding.

with the plex pass you can have your friends connect to you.
without it, you cant. you can't have any remote connections.

like before i had plex at home and plex on the server and i could watch it
off both. and so could my friends.

i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home
streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally
wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/

just try emby. it has some nice plugins too.
something screwed up when i first installed it and it wasn't importing from some directories but now it works.


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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

Plex free version does everything I want.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Tue May 19 2026 08:28 pm

I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed for me.

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save bandwidth.

Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip
intros for TV shows, which I find handy. Also, if you have a TV tuner, you can use Plex as a DVR to record shows with Plex Pass - I use that
to record Jeopardy & a couple other things.

I don't even watch any of the free Live TV channels, and don't have a TV tuner. I have regular cable TV service too, with a DVR, so don't need
that function on the Plex. I realize my usage is probably not the
typical setup, but it's all I need it for, and works well for me. :-)



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Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to All on Tue May 19 2026 12:38 pm

I got an email today from Plex to let me know about an upcoming price increase for the Lifetime Plex Pass... This change takes effect on July 1, 2026 and the price will go from the current $250 to $750.

Yep, that's a pretty significant change. Current Lifetime members are not affected, and monthly/annual subscription pricing will not be changing.

Plex free version does everything I want.

Yep, same here. Just wanted to pass on that info for any folks that
might have been thinking about the Lifetime Pass.



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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Tue May 19 2026 20:15:23

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros for TV shows...

Does it know the difference between opening credits and a prologue scene?

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 Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
 By: fusion to Gamgee on Tue May 19 2026 11:02 pm

On 19 May 2026, Gamgee said the following...

  Ga> I use Plex, but strictly in-house, and I don't play things that need
  Ga> transcoding, so no powerful GPU needed. Since I don't care about
  Ga> accessing it from outside the house, the Plex Pass isn't needed
  Ga> for me.

interesting. is there just a setting somewhere not to try
transcoding? do you have problems with it ever?

yes you can turn off transcoding.

with the plex pass you can have your friends connect to you.
without it, you cant.  you can't have any remote connections.

like before i had plex at home and plex on the server and i could watch
it off both.  and so could my friends.

i keep putting this off because most of the articles about home
streaming setups instantly get into GPU stuff.. which i normally
wouldn't mind but everything is so overpriced :/

just try emby. it has some nice plugins too.
something screwed up when i first installed it and it wasn't importing
from some directories but now it works.

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 08:42 am

I used to think nothing I had needed transcoding, but I realized it was
still transcoding some files. If Plex detects a low-bandwidth
connection, even in your own network (perhaps over wifi if it's not
getting a great connection), Plex could start to transcode to save
bandwidth.

Understood, but my Plex is wired ethernet connected and haven't ever had issues with that.

Both your Plex server and your TV (or other devices you watch Plex with)?

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mortar to Nightfox on Wed May 20 2026 09:40 am

One of the other Plex Pass features is being able to detect & skip intros
for TV shows...

Does it know the difference between opening credits and a prologue scene?

Yes, sort of. For a TV show, Plex Media Server scans the video files to look for the intro - I think it looks for video that repeats in every file and marks that as the intro to skip. It also recognizes credits at the end of a TV show and lets you skip those.

For movies, it can optionally detect credits.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
By: Mauro to MRO on Wed May 20 2026 10:59 am

I migrated to Jellyfin! The stupid price politics of Plex, and the new app, not encourage me to continue with Plex.

I'm used to the new app now, though I'm disappointed that they removed the Watch Together feature (at least for the Roku app).

I bought a lifetime Plex Pass membership about 6 years ago, and I'm still happy using Plex for now, so I plan to continue using Plex for now. If they start changing things that I'm not happy with, then I'll consider switching.

Nightfox

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