After increasing its prices across the board a few weeks ago, Spotify has now announced a new “Basic” tier for $10.99 per month in the United States. This plan, Spotify says, offers all of the same Spotify Premium benefits, but without the monthly audiobook listening time.
As a refresher, Spotify’s Premium plan includes full access to streaming music, as well as 15 hours of audiobook listening time per month. The price of the Spotify Premium Individual plan increased from $10.99 per month to $11.99 per month in earlier this month.
This new Spotify Basic plan enters the lineup at $10.99 per month, and is the same as Spotify Premium for people who only listen to music and podcasts. Here’s a breakdown of how the two plans compare:
Premium Individual
- Enjoy offline and ad-free music listening anytime, anywhere with unlimited skips.
- Your plan gives you 15 hours of audiobook listening time per month from our subscriber catalog of over 250,000 titles. $11.99/month.
Basic
- Enjoy the music streaming benefits of your Premium plan without the monthly audiobook listening time. Starting at $10.99/month for eligible users.
Notably, there’s also a Family version of Basic available for $16.99 per month. Spotify continues to offer Premium Duo ($15.99/month) and Premium Family ($19.99/month) for multi-user accounts. Those plans also continue to offer 15 hours of audiobooks listening per month. So, if you’re a “Duo” that wants to use Spotify, you have no choice but to pay for a plan that also includes audiobooks.
The new Spotify Basic plan matches the individual price of Apple Music at $10.99 per month.
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