Pandora Launches $15 Monthly Family Plan

Pandora has quietly launched a new Premium Family unit plan.

Priced at $14.99 a calendar month or $164.89 annually, the new program offers all the same perks equally Pandora Premium – on-need listening with unlimited skips and replays, no ads, higher-quality sound than the gratuitous tier, and the ability to create playlists and download music for offline access – for upwards to six unique accounts simultaneously.

Considering Pandora Premium costs $9.99 a month for but 1 account, this new option is a good bargain for families. For the sake of comparing, family plans from rival music streaming services Spotify and Apple Music also cost $14.99 a calendar month and offering back up for upwards to six individual accounts.

"Each of your Premium Family members will get full admission to Pandora Premium features, simply they'll have their own account," Pandora wrote in a FAQ commodity about the new plan. "In other words, yous won't have to share your music unless you want to."

Subscribers will also become admission to "Our Soundtrack," a "regularly-updated playlist created but for your family that combines each person's unique musical tastes," Pandora wrote.

If you already subscribe to Pandora, head over to your business relationship settings and select "Switch Plans" to upgrade to the new family choice. Once you sign up for it, yous tin visit the Subscription section of your business relationship and select "Manage Family" to add or remove people.

The new Premium Family plan comes after Pandora in March 2022 introduced its showtime-ever on-demand streaming tier to accept on Spotify and Apple Music. Pandora Premium earned a "adept" rating in PCMag'south review, though we said information technology "doesn't withal offer enough to sway users away from the top players."

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