YouTube Premium Promo Codes & Cheaper Plans

1. Share Family with the people you live with

   About $4.50 an accountLow effortHouseholds of 2 to 6

   Family costs $26.99 a month for the family manager plus up to five members aged 13 and over — about $4.50 each when it's full. Everyone has to live at the family manager's residential address, and nobody can join if they've switched family groups in the past 12 months.^{[1, 4]}

   1. The family manager (18 or over) buys the plan and sets the household location.
   2. They invite up to five people from the same home.
   3. Each member accepts the invitation from their own account.

2. Pay for the year upfront

   $31.89 less than 12 monthly paymentsLow effortIndividual subscribers

   The Individual 1-year plan is $159.99, against $191.88 for twelve months at $15.99. It's a pre-paid plan: you pay upfront, it doesn't renew automatically, and you can hold up to 24 months of pre-paid access. It's only available to individual users and can't be paused.^{[1, 2]}

3. Switch to Student while you're enrolled

   $8.99 a month — $7 less than IndividualSome effortFull-time students

   Student memberships cost $8.99 a month and are open to full-time students at approved higher-education institutions. Eligibility is checked every year by a third-party verification service, and the student price lasts for up to four years.^{[1, 2]}

4. Take Premium Lite if you mostly watch regular videos

   $8.99 a monthLow effortViewers who don't need music or Shorts covered

   Premium Lite costs $8.99 a month. Its benefits apply to most non-music videos — not to music or Shorts — and ads may still appear when you search or browse. If that's how you use YouTube, it costs $7 a month less than Individual.^[1]

5. Pause for up to six months instead of cancelling

   No charge while pausedLow effortAnyone taking a break

   You can pause for 1 to 6 months. The pause starts after your current billing cycle, you aren't charged while paused, and your downloads are kept (though locked) until you resume — at the then-current price. Annual plans and Apple-billed memberships can't be paused, and pausing a Family plan pauses it for everyone.^[3]

Codes and offers kept by David Jones, who lists only codes the store makes public.

YouTube Premium's savings are built into its plans — the free first month, the annual price, Family, Student and Lite. We haven't found public promo codes for it, so the ways to save above are where the money is.

1. Pausing pauses the whole family

   If the family manager pauses the membership, every member on the plan loses Premium benefits until it resumes.^[3]

2. Family means one home

   Members must live at the manager's address, and YouTube may pause Premium for anyone whose household it can't confirm. It's not a way to share with friends elsewhere.^[4]

3. Premium Lite isn't Premium

   Lite doesn't cover music or Shorts, and ads may appear while you search or browse. Check how you use YouTube before taking the cheaper plan.^[1]

4. The annual plan simply ends

   The 1-year plan doesn't renew on its own — good for avoiding surprise charges, but set a reminder so you choose what comes next before it runs out.^{[1, 2]}