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Streaming services total cost calculator

Streaming subscriptions often look inexpensive when considered one at a time, but the complete bundle can become a meaningful household expense.

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This calculator adds the monthly fee for every video, sports, documentary, or live television service you use, then projects the combined amount across a full year. Enter each plan in the same currency and receive a clear service-by-service breakdown alongside the monthly and yearly totals, without account data, renewal dates, or network access.

Build an accurate list of your streaming bundle

Start by listing every streaming plan that produces a recurring monthly charge. Include general entertainment platforms, sports packages, live television replacements, specialist film libraries, documentary services, and add-on channels billed separately. Use the amount that actually appears on your bill, including any plan upgrade you regularly pay for. If a service is shared with your household, enter the whole fee when you want to understand the household budget; enter only your contribution when you are measuring personal spending. Keep every row in the same currency because the calculator adds the figures directly and does not perform exchange-rate conversion. Free trials should normally be omitted until they become paid subscriptions, while discounted plans should use the price you currently expect to keep paying. Give each service a distinct name so the result remains easy to audit. A careful list matters more than complicated mathematics: overlooked add-ons, premium tiers, and subscriptions purchased through an app store are the most common reasons a streaming budget appears lower than the real bank statement.

Understand the monthly and yearly projection

For each row, the calculator preserves the monthly fee and multiplies it by twelve to show that service's projected yearly cost. It then adds all monthly fees for the bundle total and applies the same twelve-month projection to the combined amount. Money values are rounded to two decimal places in the result, while the total is calculated from the supplied values before final rounding. The projection assumes every listed price stays unchanged and every service remains active for all twelve months. It therefore represents a planning baseline, not a prediction of price increases, taxes, temporary promotions, pauses, or midyear cancellations. A zero fee is accepted for a service that you deliberately want to keep visible while it is included with another plan. Negative fees are rejected because credits and refunds are not recurring subscription prices. The service-by-service yearly figures help reveal which plan has the largest annual impact, while the combined monthly figure is useful for a normal budget and the yearly figure makes the long-term opportunity cost easier to compare with savings goals or other entertainment choices.

Use the total to review and adjust subscriptions

Treat the output as a snapshot you can revisit whenever a price changes or your viewing habits shift. Compare the service breakdown with recent statements to confirm that every recurring charge is represented, then note plans that overlap in content or receive little use. You can run alternative scenarios by removing one service, substituting a cheaper tier, or entering a promotional monthly price to see how each decision changes both horizons. The difference between two yearly totals is especially helpful because a small monthly saving can look more meaningful when extended across a year. Couples, families, and housemates can also use separate runs to compare the full household bundle with each person's share, provided each run uses a consistent basis. The calculator does not recommend which subscription to cancel; availability, exclusive programs, simultaneous streams, advertisements, and personal preferences remain important nonfinancial factors. It simply makes the recurring commitment visible in a consistent format. For automated budget reviews, the API costs $0.002 per request. Browser calculations use the same deterministic logic, send no request to a streaming provider, and require no login credentials or account identifiers.

What you can do with it

Audit a household bundle

Combine every entertainment, sports, and live television subscription to see its real budget impact.

Compare cancellation scenarios

Remove or replace one plan and compare the revised monthly and yearly totals with the current bundle.

Plan an annual entertainment budget

Convert recurring monthly fees into a single yearly projection for savings and spending decisions.

FAQ

What does the API calculation cost?

The API costs $0.002 per request. You can also run the calculator free in your browser.

Can I mix currencies?

No. Enter all monthly fees in one currency; the calculator adds values directly and does not retrieve exchange rates.

Does the yearly total account for price increases?

No. It multiplies the current combined monthly cost by twelve, assuming unchanged prices and continuous subscriptions.

Should I include a free trial?

Include it only if you want to model the monthly price that will apply after the trial ends; otherwise omit it from current paid spending.

Are taxes or app-store charges included?

Only when you include them in each monthly fee. For the most accurate total, use the recurring amount shown on your statement.

For developers — API access

Everything on this page is available programmatically. This section is for teams who want to wire it into their own systems; everyone else can just use the tool above.

API endpoint

POSThttps://api.kit.forhosting.com/video/streaming-total-cost

Prefer to automate it? One authenticated POST creates the task; the result comes back by webhook or a signed link. The same capability also runs here on the web, by email and from Telegram — and soon from our app too.

Call it from your stack

curl -X POST https://api.kit.forhosting.com/video/streaming-total-cost \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KIT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"services":[{"name":"MovieStream","monthly_fee":15.49},{"name":"SportsLive","monthly_fee":24.99},{"name":"DocumentaryPlus","monthly_fee":8.5}]}'

const res = await fetch("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/video/streaming-total-cost", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.KIT_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "services": [
      {
        "name": "MovieStream",
        "monthly_fee": 15.49
      },
      {
        "name": "SportsLive",
        "monthly_fee": 24.99
      },
      {
        "name": "DocumentaryPlus",
        "monthly_fee": 8.5
      }
    ]
  })
});
const { task_id } = await res.json();

import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/video/streaming-total-cost",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KIT_KEY']}"},
    json={
    "services": [
        {
            "name": "MovieStream",
            "monthly_fee": 15.49
        },
        {
            "name": "SportsLive",
            "monthly_fee": 24.99
        },
        {
            "name": "DocumentaryPlus",
            "monthly_fee": 8.5
        }
    ]
},
)
task_id = res.json()["task_id"]

<?php
$res = file_get_contents("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/video/streaming-total-cost", false, stream_context_create([
  "http" => [
    "method"  => "POST",
    "header"  => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("KIT_KEY") . "\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
    "content" => '{"services":[{"name":"MovieStream","monthly_fee":15.49},{"name":"SportsLive","monthly_fee":24.99},{"name":"DocumentaryPlus","monthly_fee":8.5}]}',
  ],
]));
$task = json_decode($res, true);

body := bytes.NewBufferString(`{"services":[{"name":"MovieStream","monthly_fee":15.49},{"name":"SportsLive","monthly_fee":24.99},{"name":"DocumentaryPlus","monthly_fee":8.5}]}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/video/streaming-total-cost", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("KIT_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

Example request

{
  "services": [
    {
      "name": "MovieStream",
      "monthly_fee": 15.49
    },
    {
      "name": "SportsLive",
      "monthly_fee": 24.99
    },
    {
      "name": "DocumentaryPlus",
      "monthly_fee": 8.5
    }
  ]
}

Example response

{
  "task_id": "tsk_a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "type": "video.streaming_total_cost",
  "status": "queued",
  "_links": {
    "result": "/tasks/tsk_…/result"
  }
}

The API is asynchronous: the call returns a task_id immediately and the result arrives by webhook. Polling is capped at 1 req/s per task.

Pricing

Per request$0.002

Published price — no tokens, no invented credits. A failed task is never charged.

Limits

max_items 100

Errors

HTTP	Code	Meaning
`401`	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid API key.
`402`	`insufficient_balance`	Your balance doesn't cover the task price.
`404`	`unknown_type`	That task type doesn't exist.
`429`	`rate_limited`	Too many requests. Use the webhook instead of polling.

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