Subscriptions
UK Subscription Price History
See exactly how much Netflix, Spotify, Sky, broadband and dozens more have gone up over the years — pick a service, watch the rises, and track the ones you pay for.
Pick a service to see its price history
Seeded, illustrative dataset — compiled from public price announcements; verify before launch. Default view shows Netflix Standard.
Price over time
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Private to this browser. Track the subscriptions you pay for and see their latest price change at a glance.
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Biggest risers league table
Every tracked service, ranked by percentage price increase over the period we hold data for. Share this table — it's the part everyone wants to see.
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Percentages cover different start dates per service — read them alongside the "Yrs" column. Figures compiled from public price announcements; verify before relying on them.
Why your subscriptions keep creeping up
If it feels like every streaming service, broadband bill and music app has quietly got more expensive, you are not imagining it. Across the last few years almost every major UK subscription has raised its price at least once — often more than once — and the increases rarely arrive with much fanfare. A pound here, a couple of pounds there, spread across eight or nine services, adds up to a meaningful chunk of a household budget. This page pulls those scattered announcements into one place so you can see, service by service, exactly how far prices have moved.
What the tool shows you
Choose any tracked service and you get its full price history as a simple chart, plus four numbers that matter: the current price, the earliest price we track, the total increase in pounds and as a percentage, and the average rise per year. That last figure is a compound annual growth rate — the steady yearly increase that would have taken the old price to today's price — which lets you compare a service that jumped once with one that nudges up every year on a fair footing.
How the maths works
The headline percentage is the simplest possible measure: latest price minus earliest price, divided by the earliest price. So a plan that went from £9.99 to £12.99 has risen £3.00, or about 30%. The average rise per year uses CAGR: we take the ratio of the new price to the old price, raise it to the power of one over the number of years between the first and last data point, and subtract one. A 30% total rise over four years is roughly a 6.8% compounded annual increase — comfortably ahead of the Bank of England's 2% inflation target across most of that period, which is exactly why subscription creep is worth watching.
A worked example
Take a streaming plan tracked from £9.99 in early 2021 to £12.99 in 2024. The total increase is £3.00, a 30.0% rise over roughly three years. The compound annual rise is (12.99 ÷ 9.99) ^ (1 ÷ 3) − 1, which works out at about 9.2% a year. Seen as a single yearly figure, it is obvious the plan has been climbing far faster than wages or general prices — and that is the moment most people check whether they still watch it enough to justify the cost, or whether a cheaper ad-supported tier would do.
The biggest risers league table
The league table ranks every tracked service by how much its price has risen in percentage terms. It is deliberately blunt and shareable: it answers "which subscription has stung me the most?" at a glance. Because each service is tracked from a different starting point, the table also shows the number of years of history behind each figure, so a 40% rise over six years and a 40% rise over two years are easy to tell apart. Sort by pounds-and-pence to see the largest absolute jumps, or by per-year to find the services raising prices most aggressively right now.
Track the ones you actually pay for
The watchlist is the part you come back to. Add the handful of services you personally subscribe to and the tool keeps them together with their latest price change, so you are not scrolling a list of two dozen brands you do not use. It lives only in your browser — nothing is uploaded and there is no account — which means it is private but also tied to this device. If you want to be told the moment one of your tracked services raises its price, join the alert list with your email; that is how we will reach you when automated alerts go live.
Honest caveats
This is a seeded, illustrative dataset compiled from public price announcements and press coverage. Providers run regional pricing, promotional periods, bundle discounts and grandfathered legacy rates, so the exact price you pay may differ from the headline figure shown here. Always check the current price directly with the provider before you make a decision. The percentages compare different start dates, so treat the league table as a guide rather than a precise like-for-like ranking. And because money is involved: this page is information to help you keep track, not financial advice. A price rise is a prompt to review, not an automatic reason to switch.
Frequently asked questions
Where does the price history data come from?
The figures are compiled from public price announcements, press coverage and providers' own published pricing pages. It is a seeded, illustrative dataset and should be verified against the provider before you rely on it. We label it clearly as such and expand it over time as services change their prices.
How is the total increase and average rise per year worked out?
Total increase is the latest tracked price minus the earliest tracked price, shown in pounds and as a percentage of the earliest price. The average rise per year is the compound annual growth rate (CAGR): we take the ratio of the latest price to the earliest price, raise it to the power of one divided by the number of years tracked, subtract one, and express it as a percentage. It answers "what steady yearly rise would have taken the old price to today's price".
What is the biggest risers league table?
It ranks every tracked service by the percentage its price has risen over the period we hold data for. It is a quick way to see which subscriptions have outpaced inflation the most. Because each service is tracked over a different start date, compare the percentages alongside the years tracked rather than treating it as a like-for-like race.
Will you alert me when a service raises its price?
You can add services to your watchlist, which is stored privately in your browser, and join the price-rise alert list with your email. Alerts are not yet automated — the email list is how we will notify you when we launch them. Until then the watchlist is a private reminder of which services to keep an eye on.
Is my watchlist private?
Yes. Your watchlist is stored only in your browser using localStorage. It is never uploaded and there is no account. Clearing your browser data removes it. Your email, if you join the alert list, is stored locally now and used only to contact you about price-rise alerts.
Should I switch provider just because the price went up?
Not automatically. A price rise is a prompt to check whether you still use and value the service, and whether a cheaper tier, a retention deal, or an alternative provider would suit you better. This page is information, not financial advice — always check the current price and terms directly with the provider before switching or cancelling.