5 Best Paramount+ Alternatives (2026)
Paramount+ is mostly a seasonal subscription: people take it for the NFL on CBS, a Yellowstone spinoff or a Star Trek season, then cancel the month it ends — and because there is no proration, they get nothing back for leaving early. Others go because the plan they were on still had ads, or because the checkout kept pushing a discount at them. The list below follows that split: live-sports and live-TV replacements first, then the genuinely cheap and free ways to keep the same channels.
Paramount+ alternatives, compared
Cancelling usually means you still need the thing. These are the alternatives worth looking at — with the honest downside of each.
Peacock
From $7.99/moBest for: Sports viewers swapping the CBS slate for the NBC one
- Covers Sunday Night Football, exclusive NFL games, Premier League and next-day NBC shows for about the same money.
- Same weakness in reverse — no CBS games or Star Trek, and its own retention offers on the way out.
Sling TV
From about $45/moBest for: People who really wanted live channels, not a streaming library
- Real live cable channels including ESPN or NBC depending on the package, and you can pause or restart it month to month.
- Several times the price of Paramount+, and local channels are missing in a lot of markets.
Philo
From about $28/moBest for: Households who watched entertainment cable channels and no sports at all
- Around 70 live entertainment channels with unlimited DVR — far more channel coverage per dollar than any of the big streamers.
- No sports networks and no local broadcast channels, so it is useless if the NFL was your reason for subscribing.
Pluto TV
FreeBest for: Anyone who mainly grazed the back catalogue rather than watching new episodes
- Owned by Paramount, so it runs free ad-supported channels built from the same library — including dedicated Star Trek and CBS classics feeds.
- Heavy ad breaks, no current-season episodes, and you watch on a channel schedule rather than on demand.
An over-the-air antenna
One-time, roughly $25-$40Best for: Viewers whose only real use was the Sunday CBS game and network shows
- Your local CBS games and prime-time network shows live, free forever, with a sharper picture than any stream and no billing path to cancel.
- Reception varies by location, there is no catch-up or on-demand, and no Paramount+ originals whatsoever.
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Still need to cancel Paramount+?
Cancel Paramount+ online: Account → Subscription & Billing → Cancel Subscription. You keep access until the end of the current billing period. If you signed up through Apple, Google, Amazon, or Roku, cancel through that store instead.
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