Streaming spreads across half a dozen bills, so the total is easy to lose track of. Tick what you actually pay for and watch the real monthly and yearly number appear.
Tick the services you pay for and edit any price to match your plan. The panel updates your true total as you go — nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
Default prices are typical 2026 US list prices. Edit any field to use your own currency and plan.
The streaming business was supposed to be the cheap alternative to cable. For a while it was. Then the single service you signed up for became three, then five, each one billing a small amount on a different day of the month, on a different card, under a name you do not always recognise on the statement. Individually none of them feels expensive. Together they quietly rebuild the very cable bill people cancelled a decade ago, and because the charges are scattered, most households genuinely cannot say what their total is without stopping to add it up. That is the entire reason this calculator exists: to turn a vague sense of “probably too much” into a specific number you can act on.
Seeing the annual figure is usually the moment something clicks. A service at nine dollars a month reads as pocket change, but the same service is a hundred and eight dollars a year, and four of them is a serious line item in any budget. The tool shows the yearly and even the per-day cost precisely because the monthly framing is the one that hides the damage. When you can see that your current selection costs more per year than a decent television set, you are in a far better position to decide whether every service on the list is really pulling its weight.
Tick every service you currently pay for. Each row has an editable price, so if you are on a discounted, bundled, or annual plan, type the real monthly figure in, dividing an annual price by twelve where needed. The large number in the panel is your combined monthly spend; below it you get the yearly total, a per-day equivalent, and a count of how many active subscriptions you are carrying. Everything recalculates the instant you change anything, so you can experiment: untick a service and watch the annual saving appear, which is often the nudge required to finally cancel the one nobody in the house has opened in months.
The default prices are typical 2026 list prices in US dollars, but the tool is currency-agnostic. If you are in rupees, pounds or euros, simply overwrite the numbers with your local prices and the totals follow in the same units. Nothing here is region-locked, and nothing you type is stored or transmitted; the calculation happens entirely inside your browser and vanishes when you close the tab.
Underneath the totals the tool offers a short read on where you sit. A very high total is flagged not to shame anyone, but because that is the band where the easy savings live — the point at which rotating services instead of stacking them, or dropping a single premium tier to its ad-supported version, reliably recovers a meaningful chunk of the annual cost. A mid-range total is treated as normal for a household juggling a few services, with a gentle prompt to check for catalogue overlap. A low total earns a note simply to keep an eye on the creeping price rises that every platform now issues almost yearly.
The goal is not to talk you out of streaming. Paid, licensed services are the safe, legal way to watch, and they are worth money. The goal is to make the trade-off visible so the money you spend is money you meant to spend. A household that consciously pays sixty dollars a month because it genuinely uses all of it has made a good decision; a household paying the same amount out of inertia, forgetting that two of the five services duplicate each other, has not. The number in the panel is what separates those two situations.
Once you have your total, three questions usually sharpen it. First, which service on the list have you actually opened in the last month? Anything you have not is a candidate to cancel today and re-subscribe to later, since streaming, unlike a gym, keeps your watchlist waiting. Second, do any two services overlap so heavily that one covers the other? Third, would an ad-supported tier of your most expensive service change your evenings at all, or just save you a fee? Answer those honestly and the calculator stops being a mirror and becomes a plan. When you want the deeper version of this analysis, including how the “free” unofficial apps compare once you price in data and risk, our Surflix vs paid streaming comparison runs the full two-year total-cost math.