HBO Max Price Rises Kick in Across All Subscription Tiers, HBO Max Standard Now $18.49 per Month

Warner Bros. has hiked the terms of subscriptions to its streaming work HBO Max.

Effective immediately, the terms rises deed each tiers for caller subscriptions. According to Variety, HBO Max Basic With Ads has accrued by $1 a period to $10.99, oregon an other $10 a twelvemonth to $109.99 annually. HBO Max Standard, meanwhile, is up $1.50 a period to $18.49, oregon an other $15 a twelvemonth to $184.99. And finally, HBO Max Premium has accrued by $2 a period to $22.99, oregon an other $20 a twelvemonth to $229.99.

Existing monthly subscribers volition get 30 days successful beforehand of their program changes, which means the terms increases from your adjacent billing day connected oregon aft November 20, 2025. Current yearly subscribers volition not spot an summation until renewal and volition beryllium notified 30 days successful beforehand of their program renewing.

HBO Max conscionable got much expensive. Photo by David Jon/Getty Images for HBO Max.

HBO Max terms rises October 2025:

• HBO Max Basic With Ads: +$1 a period to $10.99, +$10 a twelvemonth to $109.99
• HBO Max Standard: +$1.50 a period to $18.49, +$15 a twelvemonth to $184.99
• HBO Max Premium: +$2 a period to $22.99, +$20 a twelvemonth to $229.99

The terms hike comes up of the launches of a fig of large hitters, including IT: Welcome to Derry, and Game of Thrones spinoffs A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and House of the Dragon Season 3. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, owed retired connected HBO Max successful January 2026, adapts George R. R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novella trilogy, itself a prequel to Game of Thrones acceptable 90 years earlier the events of the main books. House of the Dragon Season 3, meanwhile, is acceptable for merchandise aboriginal summertime 2026. DC TV amusement Lanterns is besides owed retired connected HBO Max adjacent year.

HBO Max is already the location of the likes of The Penguin, Peacemaker, The Sopranos, The Last of Us, The White Lotus, and galore different award-winning TV shows. It besides streams Warner Bros. movies specified arsenic Superman, Sinners, and A Minecraft Movie. Zach Cregger's Weapons hits HBO Max this Friday, October 24.

Last month, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav explained wherefore the institution hadn't made cracking down connected HBO Max password sharing a precedence frankincense far.

“We haven’t been pushing connected the password sharing and the economics yet,” helium said during a caller quality astatine the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology conference.

“People are truly starting to emotion HBO Max. That’s the key. We privation them to autumn successful emotion with our content, with our series, with the differentiated offering extracurricular the U.S. and past implicit time, it’s a small tricky, with the password sharing, we’re going to statesman to propulsion connected that,” helium added, earlier suggesting further terms rises were coming down the line.

“I deliberation our quality to rise terms arsenic radical go much and much successful emotion with the prime that we person and the bid that we person and the offering that we person volition person a existent quality due to the fact that I deliberation the pricing crossed the committee — not lone is determination excessively galore players, successful bid to enactment alive, a batch of the players person conscionable decided to driblet prices aggressively," Zaslav said.

The enforcement besides noted: “Consumers successful America would wage doubly arsenic overmuch 10 years agone for content. People were spending, connected average, $55 for contented 10 years ago, and the prime of the content, the magnitude of contented that we’re getting, the walk is 10 oregon 12 fold and they’re paying dramatically less. I deliberation we privation a bully woody for consumers, but I deliberation implicit time, there’s existent opportunity, peculiarly for us, successful that prime area, to rise price.”

Photo by David Jon/Getty Images for HBO Max.

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