Netflix account sharing limits in 2022
As you know, Netflix has several plans that we can contract according to our needs. The most profitable plan has always been the largest, because it allows us to share the account with friends or family and significantly reduce the monthly price for accessing the content platform.
Currently, Netflix still has three different plansalthough their prices have risen significantly since the company landed in Spain back in 2015. The memberships currently available are the following:
- Basic plan: this plan is totally individual. Allows you to view a single screen simultaneously. Voucher €7.99 per month, and you can access the entire catalog of Netflix series, movies and video games. You can also use a single device (smartphone or tablet) to download offline Of content. Its big drawback is that we will be limited to SD video quality, which makes this plan not worth it directly.
- Standard Plan: by €12.99the standard plan allows you to view two screens at the same time and also use two devices to keep content offline. In this case, the streaming quality goes up to HD resolution, although at the time we are in, limiting by quality still seems like a pretty ugly move. Per user, this membership costs approximately 6.50 euros.
- Premium Plan: so far, everyone’s favorite. Here, the resolution is no longer limited, so you can watch movies and series in Ultra HD quality. It allows 4 users at the same time, and also 4 offline devices. The monthly price is €17.99about 4.50 euros per month per user.
Whichever membership you choose, Netflix will let you create a total of 5 profiles per account. That is, you can buy the Standard plan and have a profile for each family member. The only problem is that at the moment in which two users are using Netflix, the third one that enters will have to wait for one of the previous ones to stop using the service.
What does Netflix want to do to limit shared accounts?
One of the points that will be key in this transition is that the shared accounts they will have to be yes or yes, relatives. Some Netflix executives have already emphasized that this detail is in the terms of the platform, although we have all seen Netflix profiles on social networks encouraging us to share the account with friends. Well, that, technically, is going to end.
On the other hand, in the pilot tests that have been carried out in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru, it has been tested individually charge extra members on Standard and Premium accounts. Of course, each profile will have its own email and password. In theory, the ultimate goal is to prevent us from sharing the password. If we tried to make an equivalence, the price it would cost to add a new member to the Standard plan would be something like 3.20 euros. However, Netflix is still investigating how to implement this change, so we may not see changes to these plans until later this year or well into 2023.
