Free tool · Streaming stack calculator
What is your streaming stack really costing you a year?
Most households have quietly stacked up four or five services and pay for all of them, every month, while watching one at a time. Drag each one below to what you actually pay. The yearly total, and what rotating instead of stacking would save, work out as you go. Nothing is stored, and nothing is sent anywhere.
Set each service to your monthly cost. Leave the ones you do not have at zero.
The rotating figure estimates paying for about one service at a time across the year. It is the shape of the saving, not a promise of an exact number, since real prices and how long each show holds you vary.
Why stacking quietly costs so much
Streaming was meant to be the cheap escape from a big pay-TV bill, and then it became one. The trap is not any single service; it is holding several open at once and paying for all of them while you can only ever watch one. Four of your five services are usually idle in any given month, and idle is the same as wasted, because streaming has no lock-in to make holding them worthwhile.
The fix is not going without. It is being a little deliberate: subscribe to one, watch what you want, cancel, and move to the next. Your profile and watchlist usually wait for you, so coming back later picks up where you left off. Our guide on how to cut your streaming bills walks through rotating, the ad-supported tiers, and clearing out the services you forgot you were paying for.
The whole household bill, not just streaming
Streaming is one line, and it is rarely the biggest saving hiding in the household budget. The phone and internet bills tend to hold more: an oversized plan, a discount that expired years ago, a service still billing for a device long gone. If the calculator surprised you, the rest of the bill probably will too. Our page on whether you still need the Foxtel box pairs naturally with this, and a look at the whole household's telco spend usually finds more than the streaming did.
Questions people ask
How much does streaming cost per year in Australia?
It depends entirely on how many services you hold at once. One service is modest; the trouble is that most households quietly stack four or five and pay for all of them year-round while watching one at a time. This calculator adds up your own numbers so you can see the real yearly figure instead of guessing.
What does 'rotating' streaming services mean?
Rotating means subscribing to one service, watching what you want, cancelling, and moving to the next, rather than holding several open at once. Streaming has no lock-in, so a service you are not watching this month is pure waste. Rotating gets you the same content across the year for a fraction of the stacked cost.
Is the streaming cost calculator free?
Yes, it is free and nothing is stored. You drag each service to what you pay, and the yearly total and the rotating saving update on your own device. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere or kept.
Why is the rotating saving so large?
Because stacking pays for every service every month, while rotating pays for roughly one at a time. If you hold five services, four of them are usually idle in any given month. The calculator estimates the rotating cost as about the average of your active services over a year, which is the shape of the saving, not a promise of an exact figure.
Will cancelling and coming back later lose my watchlist?
Usually not for a while. Most services keep your profile, watchlist and history for a period after you cancel, so rotating back within a few months finds everything still there. That is what makes rotating painless: you are pausing the payment, not wiping the account.
Can Telco Help look at the rest of my bills too?
Yes. Streaming is one line of the household budget; the phone and internet bills often hide more. Send them over and the audit is free: we will find the oversized plan, the expired discount and the service nobody uses, and tell you straight where you are overpaying.
Streaming was one line. What about the rest of the bill?
Send us the phone and internet bills. The audit is free, and we will tell you straight where the real money is leaking, not just the streaming.
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