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Hulu drops base price from $8 to $6 per month

Hot on the heels of Netflix's price increase, Hulu's cheapest plan gets cheaper. As long as you're OK with ads.

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It's now cheaper than ever to stream Hulu originals like The Handmaid's Tale.

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The price of streaming TV is changing all the time, and Hulu's latest price adjustments are bringing the price up... and also down.

It all depends on which flavor of Hulu you want to subscribe to.

  • The cheapest Hulu plan, with ads, is going down by $2 per month, from $8 to $6
  • The ad-free Hulu plan price remains the same at $12
  • The cost ofHulu's Live TV planis going up by $5, from $40 to $45

Hulu的2美元价格下降的便宜的计划,offers Hulu's on-demand catalog of network and cable shows and movies as well as Hulu originals such as The Mindy Project and The Handmaid's Tale, matches the$2 price increase just instituted by Netflixon its most popular plan, the one with HD video quality and two simultaneous streams. It went up from $11 per month to $13 in the US.

One big difference between the two? Hulu's cheapest plan makes you watch ads while Netflix is entirely ad-free. To get the ad-free version of Hulu you'll have to pony up twice as much: $12 per month.

Hulu's live TV plan offers aslate of national and local channelsdesigned to replace traditional cable TV -- and also includes the entire Hulu on-demand library including the ads. It follows price changes at competitors too. Last year all of themajor live TV streamersbumped up the prices of their cheapest plans, includingSling TV(now $25),DirecTV Now,YouTube TV(both now $40) and PlayStation Vue (now $45).

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The Hulu price changes go into effect Feb. 26.

The $6 pricematches some past promotions, includingduring several months in 2018. They typically lasted for a year before reverting to the standard $8 price. Hulu's best promotional price, however, offered the service for$1 per month for a yearlast Black Friday.

Price drops and promotions often coincide with increased subscriber counts, and like every other streaming service, Hulu is striving to catch up to the "big N." Hulu recently announced an increase of 8 million subscribers across all of its devices in 2018, bringing itstotal subscriber base to 25 million. That total still lags far behind Netflix, which had137 million membersworldwide at the end of September.

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