Streaming platforms in India

Amazon MX Player is a free, ad supported Indian streaming service. It took shape in 2024, when Amazon bought MX Player from Times Internet and merged it with its miniTV service. The core catalog has no subscription, just a connection and an appetite for Indian entertainment. The library leans on Indian web series, films and originals such as Aashram, Bhaukaal, Raktanchal and Campus Diaries. You will also find dubbed Korean, Turkish and Chinese dramas in the MX Vdesi section, plus a growing anime corner. Most titles play in Hindi and regional languages, and there is no sport. A small paid tier, MX Gold, removes most ads and adds offline downloads. The service runs in India only, and since May 2026 Amazon has been folding it into Prime Video.

Eros Now is a Bollywood-first streaming service that launched back in 2012, and its scale is the headline. The catalogue runs to well over eleven thousand films, plus roughly a quarter of a million music titles and a growing slate of originals, mostly in Hindi with plenty of regional Indian languages alongside. Picture quality tops out at HD, and the platform is marketed across more than 150 countries, though what you can actually watch shifts a lot depending on where you are. Today Eros Now is owned and run by Xfinite Global PLC, which acquired it in July 2023 and folded it under the Eros Innovation banner. One honest caveat before you sign up: subscribers regularly flag billing errors and auto-renewals that prove stubborn to cancel.

FanCode is India’s multi-sport streaming service, run out of Mumbai by Dream Sports, the company behind the Dream11 fantasy app, which launched the platform back in 2019. Watching it, though, only works from inside India. It happens to be the country’s exclusive home for Formula 1 along with F2, F3 and F1 Academy, and it also carries MotoGP, plenty of cricket, the Indian Super League, ATP tennis, PGA Tour golf and kabaddi. You can take out an Unlimited membership or just grab one-off passes for a tour, a single match or a whole season, and there’s a genuinely useful free tier on top with highlights, live scores and some live cricket. The service sailed past 100 million users in 2024.

Hoichoi is the streaming home of Bengali storytelling. Launched in September 2017 by SVF Entertainment in Kolkata, it was built from day one for the Bengali community spread across the globe. You get more than two hundred original web series and over six hundred films, every one of them in Bengali, from detective favourites like The Eken, Byomkesh and Montu Pilot to dramas such as Indu, Kaalratri and the 2026 release Queen. This is a service about culture rather than spectacle, so video tops out at HD with no 4K. A limited free tier lets you sample the catalogue, while a subscription unlocks the full library. The lineup shifts by region, with the US selection smaller than India’s, and plan names like Prabasi and Pujari speak directly to life abroad.

Disney+ Hotstar was Disney’s India-facing streamer, and it lived and breathed cricket: the IPL sat at its centre, wrapped in a deep Bollywood catalogue, regional Indian dramas and the full Disney, Marvel and Star Wars libraries. That brand is gone now. In February 2025 the Indian service merged with JioCinema to become JioHotstar, the JioStar venture run jointly by Reliance and Disney, today the country’s largest streaming service and still the exclusive home of the IPL and ICC cricket, now with an HBO Max hub and Peacock titles layered on top. In October 2025 the Southeast Asian markets (Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) switched to plain Disney+, while a diaspora-focused Hotstar keeps running in the UK, Canada and Singapore. If it is the IPL or the Indian catalogue you are chasing from abroad, JioHotstar in India is what you actually want, and that is exactly where a VPN earns its keep.

Kutingg is a family-friendly Hindi streaming service from Balaji Telefilms, run out of Mumbai through Alt Digital Media. It arrived as the successor to ALTT (formerly ALTBalaji), which Indian authorities blocked in July 2025 over objectionable content, and it leans into a deliberately wholesome, all-ages identity. The catalogue rests on two pillars: snappy vertical micro-dramas built for the phone, plus longer family shows and dramas made for easy binge sessions. You get more than 150 Hindi web series, with launch titles such as Saas Bahu aur Swaad, Missing Priya and Janlewa Ishq. Everything streams in HD and is designed mobile-first, so it travels comfortably in your pocket. The company reports roughly half a million subscribers.

ManoramaMAX is a Malayalam-language streaming service launched in September 2019 by MM TV, part of the Malayala Manorama group in Kerala, India. It runs on a freemium model: in India and across the Gulf you watch free with ads while premium titles are paid, and if you are outside those regions everything sits behind an international plan. The library blends catch-up from the Mazhavil Manorama channel, more than 400 Malayalam films, MAX Exclusives originals such as CID MAX, Open Heart, Picture Perfect and Soul Stories, plus reality shows, news and live TV in crisp HD 1080p. It is built for Malayali audiences at home and for the large diaspora in the Gulf. Note that subscriptions are region-locked, so an Indian plan only unlocks premium content while you are physically in India.

SonyLIV is the Indian streaming service run by Sony Pictures Networks India, legally Culver Max Entertainment, based in Mumbai and part of Japan’s Sony Group. It was one of the country’s earliest streamers, launching back in 2013. Its reputation rests on ambitious originals. Series such as Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, Maharani, Rocket Boys, Gullak and Undekhi earned critical praise, while the business reality show Shark Tank India became the platform’s flagship. Live sport adds another draw, with New Zealand cricket, UEFA Champions League and Europa League football, and the Australian Open in tennis. The model is hybrid. Paid tiers reach up to 4K, but ads still run during sport and marquee exclusives, so there is no fully ad free option. The complete Indian catalogue and the cheap local pricing are geo locked to India. Abroad you get only a limited diaspora cut, sold in markets like the US through YouTube TV and Primetime Channels, while the full Indian catalogue and its low prices stay locked to India.

Sun NXT is the streaming home of Sun TV Network, the Chennai media giant that launched the service back in 2017. Its heart is South Indian cinema in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, rounded out with Hindi, Bengali and Marathi films, hugely popular TV serials, kids’ programming, news and more than forty live channels with catch-up. The library runs to roughly 4,500 titles. You can dip in through a free, ad-supported tier or step up to paid plans, the top one serving 4K in Dolby Vision with Dolby Atmos sound. Sun NXT was the first in India to bring Dolby Vision to live TV. The full Indian catalogue stays locked to India, while abroad you get a licensed selection.

ZEE5 is an Indian streaming service launched in February 2018 by Zee Entertainment Enterprises, a media group based in Mumbai. After the Sony merger fell apart in early 2024, Zee remains an independent Indian company, and ZEE5 stands as one of the biggest homes for South Asian entertainment. The library spans films and series in roughly twelve Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali, plus dozens of live TV channels and originals such as Sunflower and Taj: Divided by Blood. It runs on a hybrid model: a free, ad supported layer and paid tiers up to 4K. In 2026 it also holds India digital rights to the FIFA World Cup and streams DP World ILT20 cricket. Abroad it operates as ZEE5 Global for the diaspora, though the full Indian catalogue and the cheaper local pricing stay locked to India.

aha is an Indian subscription streaming service built entirely around South Indian entertainment in Telugu and Tamil. It is run by Arha Media & Broadcasting, a Hyderabad based joint venture between Allu Aravind’s Geetha Arts and the My Home Group, with actor Allu Arjun as brand ambassador. The Telugu service arrived in 2020, with a Tamil lineup following two years later. aha made its name on exclusive originals such as Color Photo, Bhamakalapam and Masooda, plus big reality shows like Telugu Indian Idol and Unstoppable. You will not find sport or anime here. Plans are tiered: cheaper tiers stick to Telugu, while the top Gold tier adds Tamil along with 4K and Dolby 5.1 sound. It serves the diaspora worldwide, though the low Indian pricing and the full catalogue stay tied to India.

DAZN is a sports-first streaming service built to compete with traditional pay-TV sports channels. The schedule shifts dramatically from country to country: in Germany it carries the Bundesliga and Champions League matches, in Italy it owns the majority of Serie A, in Japan it runs baseball and boxing. The global side of DAZN remains its combat sports division, where it has become one of the biggest buyers of marquee boxing pay-per-view events.

Netflix didn’t invent streaming but it set the rules everyone else now plays by. With 325 million paying subscribers across 190 countries and a stable of shows like Squid Game, Stranger Things and Wednesday, it still defines what mainstream streaming looks like. Recent pushes into live sports and ad-supported plans show the company is willing to bend its own playbook when the market demands it.

Max is Warner Bros. Discovery’s attempt to keep everything important in one app: HBO’s prestige catalogue, the DC Universe, Warner Bros. theatrical slate and the reality-heavy Discovery library. The product still leans on HBO’s reputation for Sunday-night event TV (Succession, The Last of Us, House of the Dragon) but the expanded library means there is something for almost every household.

Apple TV+ takes the opposite approach to almost everyone else: no licensed back catalogue, only original productions. The result is a comparatively small library where misses are rare and hits like Ted Lasso, Severance, Slow Horses and For All Mankind have picked up Emmys. A single tier covers 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos, and the service is bundled into Apple One for households already invested in the Apple ecosystem.

Prime Video lives inside the wider Prime bundle, so streaming is only part of what you’re paying for. The content mix is unusual: splashy originals (The Boys, The Rings of Power, Reacher) sit next to a huge catalogue of movies available to rent or buy and a growing set of optional add-on Channels. Prime has also turned into a heavyweight in live sports, from Thursday Night Football to Champions League in select markets.

Paramount+ gathers the Paramount Pictures film vault, CBS prime-time drama, Nickelodeon kids programming and MTV reality into one subscription. The backbone is Taylor Sheridan’s growing slate of originals (the Yellowstone spin-offs 1923 and Lawman: Bass Reeves, plus Tulsa King), with Star Trek carrying the sci-fi side and South Park providing the decades-old evergreen. In select regions the service also carries NFL games and UEFA Champions League, blurring the line with traditional sports packages.

Disney+ is the one place where Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic sit alongside the general-entertainment hub Star. It launched globally in November 2019 and reached the Czech Republic in June 2022. Most markets now offer three tiers: an ad-supported entry plan plus the ad-free Standard (Full HD) and Premium (4K HDR with Dolby Atmos), while a few countries such as the Czech Republic keep only the two ad-free plans. Annual billing trims roughly two months off the yearly cost.

EuroLeague TV is the official streaming home of European basketball, operated by the league itself through Euroleague Ventures, an IMG partnership run out of Barcelona. The service carries every Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and BKT EuroCup game live and on demand, plus a deep archive of classic encounters and a round-the-clock EL 24/7 channel. There are some hard limits to know about. Coverage is fully blacked out in Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, where FloSports holds North American rights. German club matches air on a delay, with MagentaSport carrying them live, and France got the platform back as the primary route in March 2026. Access comes as an annual Season Pass.

FIAWEC+ is the official streaming home of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the global stage for long-distance motorsport. It is run jointly by the championship and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, the ACO in Le Mans, France, which means the feeds come straight from the people behind the racing. The service carries every WEC session and the complete 24 Hours of Le Mans, with onboard cameras, Live Timing Pro and a multi-season archive on top. You also get WEC Originals and the behind-the-scenes WEC Insider documentaries, all in crisp 1080p HD. There is no built-in smart-TV app, but Chromecast and AirPlay push it to the big screen.

FIFA+ is FIFA’s free, ad-supported football platform, and since June 2026 it lives inside DAZN after the standalone FIFA+ app was retired. At no cost it opens up the complete men’s and women’s World Cup archive, the original FIFA+ documentaries, and, in selected territories, thousands of live grassroots, women’s and lower-division matches. Note that FIFA+ does not carry the main 2026 World Cup fixtures, which stay with national broadcasters.

MotoGP VideoPass is the official streaming service of the road racing world championship, operated by Dorna Sports (renamed MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group in 2026, majority-owned by Liberty Media and headquartered in Madrid). It carries every MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 and MotoE session live, from practice and qualifying through sprints to the races themselves, across all 22 Grands Prix of the 2026 season. A six-angle Multifeed lets you switch between camera views, including onboard shots, while Multiview stacks several feeds on one screen and a deep archive reaches back to 1992. Everything streams in 1080p on the web, mobiles, tablets, and the major connected-TV platforms.

NWSL+ is the National Women’s Soccer League’s own free, ad-supported streaming app, built on Endeavor Streaming technology. Sign up with an email and you can watch live matches, replays and highlights from every game across more than 130 countries. The 2026 season grew to 16 teams, including new clubs Denver Summit FC and Boston Legacy FC. In the United States many marquee fixtures sit with partners like Prime Video and ESPN, so NWSL+ carries only the leftover live games at home. A VPN simply changes your location.

The Inner Circle is the official streaming home of ONE Championship, the Singapore-based Asian combat promotion run by Group ONE Holdings. It carries live cards across MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing and submission grappling, including the Friday-night ONE Friday Fights from Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium, ONE Fight Night events, numbered shows, plus replays and a deep archive. As of June 2026 it runs as a global subscription. Be aware that the platform applies strict VPN checks at purchase and during playback, and blacks out events where local broadcasters hold the live rights, so what you can watch live depends on the country you connect from.