Google launched YouTube Premium Lite in 2025. It's cheaper than YouTube Premium, but lacks a few of our favorite features.

The new “Premium Lite” tier fits with the broader pattern indicating YouTube’s ambitions to beat Netflix at its own game.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. YouTube Premium Lite cuts the price and drops YouTube Music, downloading and background playback.

At the moment, the only YouTube users who will be able to give Premium Lite a test run are those who live in the US, as this ...

For a long time I've resisted taking the plunge into yet another subscription with YouTube Premium for $13.99 a month, ...

YouTube has announced that its cheaper Premium Lite plan is getting a full rollout in the US– with other countries getting it ...

"For users who want ad-free music on YouTube and YouTube Music, plus offline and background play, we recommend the Premium plan." Also: YouTube teases top features for 2025 - brought to you by AI ...

Priced at $7.99 per month, Premium Lite will rid your YouTube experience of ads when ... The major exception is music. For ad-free music videos, you’ll still need to step up to the standard ...

YouTube has been testing Premium Lite “to make sure we have the right balance of features and benefits for those viewers who want to watch most videos ad-free,” Greenberg added. In YouTube’s ...

YouTube has ... “We’ve been testing Premium Lite to make sure we have the right balance of features and benefits for those viewers who want to watch most videos ad-free – whether it ...

First, it’s not an ad-free digital utopia. With a YouTube Premium subscription, “most videos” will be ad-free, covering the gaming, fashion, beauty, and news segments among others.

UPDATE 3/5: YouTube today officially launched Premium Lite in the US for $7.99 per month. The new tier offers the same ad-free streaming as the standard YouTube Premium, except for music and music ...