Streaming rotation planner

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 plan you select on each 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.

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. Most services don’t offer a true pause, so rotating usually means canceling and resubscribing when a new season lands. See how to cancel Netflix step by step.

A rotation schedule assigns each service to the months you actually watch it instead of paying year-round. Subscribe to HBO 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.

YouTube TV officially lets you pause for up to six months and keeps your DVR library, verified October 14, 2026. Most other services don’t offer a pause button, but most plans bill monthly, so canceling and resubscribing works the same way; a few plans are annual-only (BritBox Premier, for example), so those can’t be rotated month to month. The YouTube TV cancellation guide walks through the pause option, and the Hulu cancellation steps cover a typical cancel-and-return flow.

Subscribing to all 20 services Dormant tracks at their cheapest tiers costs $295.81 a month, over $3,500 a year, verified October 14, 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.

Subscribe to one service at a time and the floor is $5.99 a month: CuriosityStream is the cheapest plan Dormant tracks, verified October 14, 2026. Among mainstream services, the $8.99 ad-supported tiers from Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock, and Prime Video are the budget rotation picks.

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.