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ESPN+ is Disney’s direct-to-consumer sports subscription for the US market. The headline attraction is UFC, both the full library of older events and pay-per-view upgrades for major fights, paired with out-of-market NHL and MLB packages, LaLiga and Bundesliga soccer and thousands of college sports broadcasts. The service is often bundled with Disney+ and Hulu at a meaningful discount over standalone pricing.

Fubo is the US virtual multichannel provider (vMVPD) that has since 2015 positioned itself as a sports-first alternative to traditional cable. The base subscription carries more than 200 channels, a cloud DVR, up to ten in-home devices per account and broad coverage of MLS, Premier League, Serie A and the major US leagues including the NFL, NBA and MLB. It currently operates in the United States, Canada and Spain; the Pro plan starts at 79.99 $ a month and Elite, which layers the Sports Plus add-on, sits at 99.99 $.

MLB.TV is the official streaming service of Major League Baseball, on air since 2002 and run by MLB Advanced Media. It carries almost every regular-season game live or on-demand, typically with two audio feeds (home and away broadcast teams) and a deep overlay of real-time statistics. Inside the US, local blackout rules apply; outside the US, games are widely available. A single-team annual pass is priced at 129.99 $, the full All Teams annual pass at 149.99 $.

NBA League Pass is the NBA’s official streaming bundle, first made available outside US home-team territories in the mid-1990s. In its current digital form it carries live coverage of every out-of-market regular-season game, the full Playoffs archive and the NBA TV channel. The standard League Pass tier costs 14.99 $ a month, while Premium at 22.99 $ adds alternative camera feeds and removes the commercial-break interruptions on live streams. Inside the US, local team blackouts still apply.

NFL+ is the NFL’s official streaming product, launched in July 2022 as the US-facing replacement for NFL Game Pass. The 6.99 $ base tier streams local and primetime regular-season games to phones and tablets only, while NFL+ Premium at 14.99 $ adds full-game replays from every camera angle, including the coaches’ All-22 tape. The service is essentially US-only (with a handful of reduced markets) and NFL Game Pass International continues to cover the rest of the world separately.

UFC Fight Pass is UFC’s official streaming service, running since 2013 and operated by parent company TKO Group Holdings. Alongside the live UFC Prelims on every fight night, it hosts the largest combat-sports archive online, covering the entire Pride, WEC, Invicta FC and historical UFC libraries. Outside North America it also carries dozens of smaller MMA, boxing and grappling promotions that rarely reach mainstream television. Pricing is 9.99 $ per month or 95.99 $ annually.

Hulu occupies a specific niche in the United States: day-after access to current-season network TV, a deep library of FX and 20th Century Studios content and a separate Live TV tier that functions as a full cable replacement. Originals like The Handmaid’s Tale, Only Murders in the Building and Reservation Dogs anchor the prestige side. Outside the US much of the content now reaches audiences through the Star hub on Disney+.

Discovery+ is the streaming arm of Warner Bros. Discovery’s factual and lifestyle TV empire, pulling together Discovery, TLC, ID, HGTV and Food Network under a single subscription. Reality formats, true crime, home renovation and cooking shows dominate the grid. In several European markets the service is also bundled with Eurosport live streams, turning it into a part-time sports destination.

Peacock is NBCUniversal’s home-team streaming service, built around a massive library of classic sitcoms, current Bravo reality, Universal films and original productions like Poker Face. The real differentiator, though, is live programming: WWE, Premier League matches, Sunday Night Football and big event programming give Peacock a sports and news DNA that most rivals don’t even attempt.

AMC+ is the streaming service of AMC Networks, bundling the programming of AMC, BBC America, IFC and Sundance TV with the standalone libraries of Shudder and IFC Films Unlimited. For viewers invested in The Walking Dead Universe, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire or the slate of British imports that AMC curates, the app is the most direct route to new episodes. Availability is currently limited to a handful of English-speaking markets.

Crunchyroll, owned by Sony, is the default home for legal anime streaming outside Japan. Simulcasts typically land an hour after Japanese broadcast, which is why it has become the first stop for shows like Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer. The free, ad-supported plan gives access to most of the library on a one-episode delay, while the paid tiers unlock simulcasts, offline downloads and the manga app.

CuriosityStream was founded by John Hendricks, the same person behind Discovery Channel, and the service has stuck to a single brief ever since: documentaries only. The catalogue spans science, history, nature and technology, often produced in-house and delivered in 4K. It remains one of the cheapest premium subscriptions on the market and ships with a thriving original slate rather than the reality-TV pivot most of its peers have taken.

Pluto TV is the FAST service of Paramount Global and, after launching in 2014, played a significant role in popularising the model of free, ad-supported linear streaming channels. From one interface viewers can reach more than 250 themed channels (film, TV, music, news, documentaries) and a large on-demand catalogue, none of which requires registration. The service operates in around 35 countries, and the exact channel line-up varies market by market based on local licensing.

Rakuten Viki is the streaming service operated by Japanese group Rakuten, dedicated to Asian drama and pop-culture content. The catalogue leans heavily on Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Thai and Japanese drama, often streaming new episodes on their original broadcast day. Viki’s distinctive feature is the community-driven subtitle system that covers more than 200 languages, built by volunteer translators and particularly strong for less-common language pairs. A free ad-supported tier is available worldwide, with Viki Pass Standard at 4.99 $ removing advertising.

Shudder is a genre-only service from AMC Networks, dedicated entirely to horror, thrillers and the supernatural. The catalogue mixes canonical classics (Night of the Living Dead, Suspiria) with international festival discoveries, recent indie releases and a growing slate of Shudder Originals. It has become the primary curator in the horror streaming space, and most of its content now travels to AMC+ subscribers as well.

Starz (rebranded outside the United States as Lionsgate+) is the premium streaming service operated by the Lionsgate film studio. The brand is defined by its originals, Outlander, Power and its various spin-offs, Spartacus, Ghosts of Beirut, paired with a deep library of Lionsgate theatrical releases. The tone skews distinctly adult, and the service is often most useful as an add-on via cable or a partner platform.

Tubi is the US free ad-supported streaming service that has been running since 2014 and has belonged to Fox Corporation since 2020. The library sits at roughly 50,000 films and TV episodes and leans noticeably on classic cinema, genre B-movies, independent film and, more recently, a growing slate of homegrown Tubi Originals. Official availability covers about ten markets, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia; access from elsewhere requires a local address.

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.

Amazon 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.

Disney+ is the one place where Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic live under the same roof, plus the general-entertainment arm Star. Launched globally in November 2019 and in the Czech Republic in June 2022, it keeps things simple with two ad-free tiers: Standard (Full HD, two streams) and Premium (4K HDR, Dolby Atmos, four streams). Annual billing knocks roughly two months off the price.

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.

Paramount+ gathers the Paramount Pictures film vault, CBS prime-time drama, Nickelodeon kids programming and MTV reality into one subscription. The backbone is the Taylor Sheridan universe (Yellowstone, 1923, Lawman: Bass Reeves), 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.