If you’re looking for an online platform to watch sports with, one of the best streaming services that you’re probably looking at is ESPN Plus, ran by the Disney-owned sports network ESPN.
ESPN Plus wears many hats: you can use it to stream live sports like NFL, MLB, college football, college basketball and PGA Tour, but it also hosts its own documentaries and talk shows so you can get behind the game to learn about its stars and strategies.
While ESPN Plus used to be the dominant sports streaming service, recently contenders like DAZN, Fite TV, Apple TV Plus MLS have become more and more popular as have major streamers like Peacock and Prime Video which are adding more and more live sports. Soon Venu Sports, which is part-owned by ESPN, will be wading in too.
A recent price hike means that ESPN Plus costs a little more than it used to, but maybe there will be an ESPN Plus Black Friday deal to save you some money. We've got the new pricing information below as we update this article regularly as ESPN Plus changes.
ESPN Plus is cheaper if you get it as part of the Disney Bundle (more on that below). But even if you can't get or don't care for the Disney Bundle, and despite the lack of an ESPN Plus free trial, this is a great streaming service for sports fans.
What is the ESPN Plus price?
ESPN Plus currently goes for $11.99 a month, or $119.99 a year if you pay annually instead of monthly. That's $1 and $10 (respectively) higher than it used to be after a price rise on Thursday, October 17, 2024.
You can cancel whenever you want, so, if your favorite sport isn't in season, just cancel and come back when you're ready.
And even better, you could also consider bundling the ESPN Plus subscription cost with a couple of other streaming services — Hulu and Disney Plus — known as the Disney Bundle for $16.99 per month. So it's not just good value in and of itself.
Another way to get access is via the live TV streaming service Hulu with Live TV, as on certain tiers you get Disney Plus and ESPN Plus included in the package. The prices for these plans begin at $82.99 monthly.
We sometimes see other streaming deals on the service too, if you can't wait to see the games.
What's included in ESPN Plus?
The biggest draw is the live streaming of thousands of sports, games and tournaments at any time — day or night. As well as live sports ESPN Plus also offers up original programming from sports talk studio shows, sports documentaries like Man in the Arena with Tom Brady and Dana White's Contender Series, exclusive articles from ESPN's sports writers and, is the exclusive home of UFC.
- LIVE SPORTS:
Here are the list of live sports offered on ESPN Plus: UFC, Top Rank boxing, MLB, NHL, MLS, PGA Tour, Bundesliga, Premiere Lacrosse League, Emirates FA Cup, LaLiga, Cope del Rey, Carabao Cup, EFL Championship, US Open Cup, PFL, college football, college basketball, college lacrosse, college baseball, college hockey, college wrestling, Little League World Series, Australian Open, Wimbledon, US Open tennis, WTT, The Masters, PGA Championship, cricket, rugby, G-League basketball, National Lacrosse League - UFC:
You can also justify the ESPN Plus subscription due to the fact that it's the exclusive home of UFC pay-per-view events. You can't watch UFC in the US without also having ESPN Plus. - ORGINAL PROGRAMMING:
ESPN Plus is also home to all sorts of original content. Peyton's Places is the main attraction. It's nice to see Peyton Manning do something other than commercials but you'll also find the excellent 30 For 30 documentaries, Stephen A's World, and SportsNation. Other popular ESPN shows like The Jump and NFL Primetime are available on ESPN Plus too.
How can I stream ESPN Plus?
ESPN Plus is available on a whole host of connected devices. Start basic on your laptop and expand to everything from Apple iOS, Android, Amazon Fire sticks and Fire TVs, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ESPN Plus on Chromecast, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/Series X and for the niche techies, the Oculus Go.
More ESPN Plus
- Is there an ESPN Plus free trial?
- Use Chromecast to send ESPN Plus content to your TV.
- How to watch ESPN Plus on your TV
- How to watch ESPN Plus on a Vizio TV
- Use AirPlay on Apple TV to send ESPN Plus content to your TV.
Save on ESPN Plus — consider the Disney Bundle
If there's any chance at all that you might also subscribe to Disney Plus or Hulu, then you absolutely must check out the bundle that gets you both of those services along with ESPN Plus for a single price.
It's called the Disney Bundle, and it gets you Disney Plus, the basic Hulu subscription and ESPN Plus all for a single price of just $16.99 a month.
That gets you all the incredible content on Disney Plus, including films and shows from the world of Star Wars — The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian — the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, which includes the excellent WandaVision and Loki. There's also Pixar, Nat Geo and of course the rest of the Disney universe. You get all that, plus Hulu and ESPN Plus.
And it gets even better.
If you're looking for a new way to stream live TV, you can add Hulu With Live TV to your bundle and make the ESPN+ cost make even more sense. That bundle costs $82.99 a month. So now you have ESPN Plus, Disney Plus, and the basic Hulu on-demand service, plus Hulu With Live TV, which gets you dozens of live streaming channels. That's just about the most cost-effective ESPN Plus deal there is.
