Streaming rotation planner

How does the rotation planner work?

Check the services you pay for, pick a plan on each, and set how many months a year you’d subscribe. The planner prices the cheapest plan per service from Dormant’s verified dataset, compares your year-round cost against your rotated cost, and lays your services across a 12-month schedule. If you only want the totals, the streaming cost calculator runs the same math with one slider.

Which streaming services should I pause first?

Pause the priciest services you haven’t watched in the last month. YouTube TV’s Base Plan costs $82.99 a month, so it’s the first to hibernate; among mainstream services, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock, and Prime Video all start at $8.99 a month. When you’re ready, pausing is just a cancellation. See how to cancel Netflix step by step.

What does a rotation schedule look like?

A rotation schedule assigns each service to the months you actually watch it instead of paying year-round. Subscribe to Max’s $10.99 Basic with Ads plan for the three months a season drops, pause it for nine, and you pay $32.97 instead of $109.99. The schedule above builds that month-by-month plan for your picks automatically.

Can I pause a subscription instead of canceling it?

YouTube TV officially lets you pause for up to six months and keeps your DVR library, verified October 2, 2026. Most other services don’t offer a pause button, but every plan bills monthly, so canceling and resubscribing works the same way. The YouTube TV cancellation guide walks through the pause option, and the Hulu cancellation steps cover a typical cancel-and-return flow.

How much would it cost to subscribe to every streaming service?

Subscribing to all 18 services Dormant tracks at their cheapest tiers costs $288.82 a month, over $3,400 a year, verified October 2, 2026. That’s why rotating two or three services at a time beats stacking them all. Dormant’s streaming price history shows how those cheapest tiers got here.

What is the cheapest possible streaming rotation?

Subscribe to one service at a time and the floor is $5.99 a month: CuriosityStream and Discovery+ are the cheapest plans Dormant tracks, verified October 2, 2026. Among mainstream services, the $8.99 ad-supported tiers from Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock, and Prime Video are the budget rotation picks.

How do I keep track of my rotation plan?

Save your plan in Dormant’s planner: it maps your shows to the cheapest months to subscribe and reminds you when to come back. Dormant turns the schedule above into a living calendar instead of a spreadsheet you’ll forget.