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Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin
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this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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I bought a Plex lifetime subscription 13 years ago. I think it was about $75-ish. It worked fine, but they started getting more and more shitty.
I only want to share my collection across different devices on the LAN, and Jellyfin does that just fine.
I think I bought it when it was first offered and it was $50 (maybe 2010ish?). While they are getting closer and closer to enshittification, trying to switch those over who access my Plex server would be a headache. I'll only do it if I have to, at this point. And it'll likely take them revoking the lifetime pass for me to do so.