Just remember that lifetime means Plex's lifetime, not yours.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Lol, ok. I still won’t buy it. I wouldn’t even buy it at 100x the price.
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[jellyfin voice] Oh no.... thats terrible!
Keep this up and they’ll be jellyfinished!
I hope this brings more platform maturity and adoption of jellyfin. Tried it like a year ago and was really unhappy with subtitles and overall accessibility.
I’ve had lifetime plex for a long time and it’s been worth it for a thing that still mostly just works and is not an app I need to side load or jailbreak, I want jellyfin to have that and beat out plex - it wouldn’t be hard.
This $750 nonsense just sounds like a cash grab because they are losing market share though. I remember hellgate london’s lifetime sub.
Can't speak to whatever else you may have experienced, but subtitles have seen significant improvement over the last year or so.
If I remember with subtitles there wasn't a way to source them in the app or swap to ones that might have different timings unless you downloaded them yourself manually. Did that change or am I remembering wrong?
My subtitles are awesome. Except on Roku, the official Jellyfin app is lacking. But Jellyrock is pretty great.
I bought the Plex Lifetime Subscription at like $80 (or maybe $120?) years ago. I still moved to Jellyfin.
Plex became too cumbersome and... They hide the "local IPs that can connect without auth" behind "advanced settings" and when I moved... I couldn't use my own media through Plex for over a day until internet was setup.
This feels like a death rattle. A lot of things jack up their prices at the end to squeeze every last penny out that they can right before they go under. It's too bad, Plex was amazing about 15 years.
It’s the death rattle for new lifetime licenses, not for Plex.
They want everyone on subscriptions.
I get that lifetime is a long time and this doesn't affect existing customers... but what's the point of paying so much for Plex when Jellyfin is free?
Jellyfin isn’t meant to be used for remote streaming, isn’t compatible with most devices people use to stream media too, and is a nightmare to share your library with friends and family.
Plex solved all of these problems like a decade ago.
Huh?
Just download the Jellyfin app on whatever device and log in... Or use the web browser
Oh I’ll just wish the app into existence on every device lol
I mean, it's on Android, iOS, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, Tizen/Samsung TVs, LG TV, Roku, Xbox...
What's the issue?
Less point every day. Jellyfin is getting better and Plex is getting more expensive and occasionally worse.
For me, the biggest reason I stick with Plex is because I have people who watch my library on PS4 and PS5, but Jellyfin doesn't have media apps for Sony platforms.
Do these platforms have Kodi? If so, I think it’s even easier to access any library.
For me it's basically the same. I have people who use my library and they can access through anything. And I can access through anything because everything has a first party app. I don't have to dig around and sort out code or any third party options. There's a first party app for everything.
I took a while to get my lifetime plex pass, but I got it last black Friday and I really couldn't be happier.
I know jellyfin is great and I know plex has some sort of limitations that just paid users can get but, still, I'm paid user and I can use it pretty well. Jellyfin is great but requires too much config and some of my users don't want to mess up with that
I see the enshittification of Plex continues apace. Makes me more pleased than ever I made the effort to set up my Jellyfin server when they started down this path.
I'm guessing a private equity got involved?
Well this is likely another step toward eliminating it altogether. Clearly they won't sell many, if any, at that price point, which is egregiously expensive, and will use that as justification to end it altogether, including for those of us who have long been such a paid member (I got a lifetime Plex Pass when it was $50 back in like 2009 or 2010, whenever they first began the program). And they'll act like they have no choice.
I suppose I need to set up Jellyfin and start looking at how best to convert family I have connected.
It’s worth it to make the switch, imo
That's 10 times what I paid for it
Maybe Plex is trying to make their Exit Scam more lucrative.
Wow. I got mine on sale for $80.
Have plex pass since 201X. Already moved to jellyfin and use jellysync (docker name??) to synchronise watched media. There is zero reason for anyone to use plex server in 2026. Jellyfin does everything plex did
There are many reasons to use Plex over jellyfin. The biggest ones are library sharing and remote access.
What's that?
Self hosted media streaming software