Today we’re announcing an important pricing update. Starting July 1, 2026, the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass will increase to $749.99 USD.
When Plex first started, we were movie and TV fans who wanted to make something great for people like us. We chose to offer a Lifetime subscription early on because we knew many of our customers would rather pay a higher one-time fee for software that they can depend on every day.
We’ve considered eliminating the Lifetime Plex Pass in the past, given that recurring subscriptions help us sustain long-term development, but we know it’s still a valuable option for many in our community. So instead of retiring it, we’re keeping it available at a price that reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.
Make them a user, give them the login.
Exposing your jellyfin on the Internet is much more difficult and requires knowledge of networking and security best practices. It is not as easy as “just giving someone a login” though for those with the know how I would easily recommend it over Plex.
They didn’t ask how to expose it on the internet. They asked how to give others access to the library. If they live in a dorm or with roommates it’s as easy as creating a login. If they wanted to give people access over the internet they would have asked that.
Also they said they are very technical, so clearly the problem isn’t that they don’t know how to expose services on the internet, they most likely didn’t know that jellyfin has users or multiple logins.
I mean I’ve done it, it required buying a cheap domain and I found out most people don’t give a crap about my server even if I offer them access 🥲
Do we know if Plex has been audited? Or is just that it is so much easier to do and Plex says it is secure so people think it is secure? That is often the case with closed source software.
Not the point. When setting up remote access Plex is easy, Jellyfin is not.
Yes that is true, but the commenter I replied to specifically mentioned security and it always comes up when people compare the two that Jellyfin security isn’t great.
You’re thinking of Plex
No I’m not, I’m running jellyfin with ten users.