The cost of IPTV, worked out for one screen, five screens and a full year

Vizwriting Team · online since September 2, 2026 · last edited October 5, 2026

An IPTV subscription typically runs $15 for one month of a single screen, and around $69 for a full year, with plans for several screens priced higher. Every price is the product of two decisions: the length of the term, and the number of screens allowed to stream simultaneously. Rather than quote market ranges, this guide does its arithmetic on the Vizwriting price list, so each figure can be checked: $15 to $69 on one screen, up to $239 for a year on five, and the same 25,000+ live channels and 120,000+ on-demand titles behind every one of them.

The price list, term by term

Prices are in US dollars and paid once for the whole term.

Read down a column and the term changes; read across a row and the number of screens changes. Nothing else does. The current version of this table, with what each tier includes, is kept on the Vizwriting plans and prices page, and if the two ever disagree, that page is the one to trust.

What each extra stretch of months really costs

The clearest way to see why longer terms are cheaper is to price the extra months on their own. Going from one month to three on a single screen adds $14 and buys two more months, so each of those months costs $7. Going from three to six adds $16 for three months, about $5.33 each. Going from six to twelve adds $24 for six months: $4 each.

The pattern holds on every tier: the second half of a year is the cheapest television you can buy on the list. On one screen it costs $24, less than two single months.

The $111 gap: one month at a time for a whole year

Buy a single month on one screen twelve times over and the year costs 12 × $15 = $180. Buy the twelve-month term once and the same year costs $69. The difference is $111, for identical channels, the same library and the same program guide.

Another way to picture it: $111 is more than the price of an entire second year. The $180 spent month by month would pay for two twelve-month terms and still leave $42 over.

The gap widens with the screen count. On three screens, renewing monthly for a year reaches $420, while the annual three-screen plan is $159. On five, the monthly route totals $588 and the year costs $239.

That does not mean a newcomer should open with a year. The single month is the price of flexibility, and paying it once or twice while you find out how IPTV behaves on your own set and your own connection is sensible. It is twelve consecutive months of that habit that costs $111.

Count streams, not televisions

The screen number on a plan caps how many streams can play at the same moment. It does not cap installs: the login can sit on every television, phone and tablet in the house. Four situations catch people out, and the first three are typical of a household that follows the news and watches documentaries.

• Multi-view. Laying out two or three news channels on one television, in a player such as TiviMate Premium, opens one stream per tile. Three tiles count as three connections, exactly as three televisions would.
• Catch-up and on demand. Replaying last night’s bulletin or starting a documentary from the library is a stream like any other, and it counts while it plays.
• The news left running. A news channel on a kitchen tablet while a nature program plays in the living room is two streams, even if nobody is really watching the tablet.
• Taking turns. Several people using different screens at different times never use more than one connection between them.

Which tier fits which household

Find the busiest moment of a typical week, count the screens playing at that moment, and choose the tier that covers it.

One screen: a single viewer, one story at a time

Someone who watches the evening news and then a documentary on the same television needs one connection: $15 for a month, $69 for a year.

Two screens: two kinds of curiosity

One person follows the markets on a tablet while another watches a history program on the main set. Two connections: $25 a month, $119 a year.

Three screens: the family evening plus a news watcher

A documentary in the living room, a children’s factual channel upstairs and a parent catching the late bulletin on a phone. Three connections: $35 a month, $159 a year. A three-tile multi-view habit on one television lands here too.

Five screens: a busy house

Most rooms have something playing on a typical evening, or a multi-view wall runs on top of two other televisions. Five connections: $49 a month, $239 a year.

Spread across the screens, a year gets cheaper per screen as the tier grows: $69 on one, $59.50 each on two, $53 each on three and $47.80 each on five. If you are torn between two tiers, run the 24-hour Vizwriting free trial through an ordinary evening and count the screens that are on at the busiest moment.

What the tier leaves untouched

The tier and the term decide nothing about what you can watch. Every cell in the table opens an identical line-up of 25,000+ live channels from 60+ countries, one shared library of 120,000+ movies and series with its documentary and other non-fiction shelves, the program guide, catch-up wherever a channel keeps an archive, and 4K, FHD and HD versions wherever they exist. Support runs 24/7 on WhatsApp, a new login is active in under 15 minutes, and the first purchase carries a 7-day money-back guarantee. The factual networks and news desks are described on the Vizwriting documentaries page.

Spending that happens away from the price list

Usually the plan is all you pay. The exceptions are one-off purchases of your own, and the provider sees none of that money:

• The player. IPTV Smarters Pro is free, and on Apple devices the free version is Smarters Player Lite. TiviMate installs free, and its paid Premium tier is where multi-view, recording, multiple playlists and favorites live, so a household that wants news channels side by side should budget for it. On Samsung and LG sets, Smart IPTV charges once per television to activate.
• A streaming device, if the television cannot run a player. A stick or an Android TV box is a single purchase; for 4K nature films, pick one that decodes 4K and HEVC in hardware.
• A network cable from the router to the main TV device, which steadies the picture for very little money.
• Data, on a capped plan. At about 25 Mbps, an hour of 4K uses roughly 11 GB. Uncapped broadband makes this irrelevant.

No setup charge, box rental or support fee belongs on an IPTV bill, and a seller asking for one is a reason to stop and look elsewhere.

A worked first year

Take a couple who watch the news together most evenings, one of whom also likes a second news channel running on a tablet. They run the free trial, then buy one month on two screens for $25. During that month they discover that on big news days they want two channels side by side on the main television in multi-view, with the tablet still going. That is three streams at once, so they move to the three-screen year at $159 and add TiviMate Premium for the multi-view.

Their first thirteen months of viewing cost $25 plus $159, or $184, before the player upgrade. Had they kept renewing three screens month by month for that year instead, the twelve months alone would have come to $420. The second year costs $159 again, unless their habits change.

Changing tier between terms

Because no plan renews by itself, every purchase is a fresh choice. A household that bought three screens for the year can drop to two at the next purchase if a child has left home, or move up to five if multi-view has become a habit. The term is free to change in the same way: a month to test a new arrangement, then a year once it settles.

Paying, and the order to buy in

A Vizwriting term is prepaid and ends on its own date. Nothing renews in the background, so the only further charge is one you decide to make. The order is placed by WhatsApp message, the payment instructions come back in the same conversation, and so does the login. There is no web account and no saved card.

The cheapest safe sequence is short: the free trial first, then a single month on the tier that matched your busiest evening, then a twelve-month term once you are sure, which on one screen keeps that $111 in your pocket every year.

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