Netflix Standard plan, monthly priced in Bitcoin: 2015 to 2025
Priced in fiat
Priced in sats
Netflix Standard plan, monthly (per month) cost £6.99 in 2015 and £12.99 in 2025, a change of +86% in pounds across 10 years. The figures are annual averages from Netflix published UK price changes, Standard plan. The fiat peak in this series came in 2025 at £12.99.
Priced in sats, the same item went from 3,861,878 sats to 16,816 sats, a change of −99.6%. The conversion uses the yearly average BTC price for each matching year, never a rate from a different era. The least flattering single step for the sats series was 2021 to 2022, when this item moved +73% in sats terms. Short windows can and do run against the holder; the direction across the full series is what the chart shows.
A digital service with near-zero marginal cost has nearly doubled in price in a decade. In sats it costs a small fraction of what it did.
Small pleasures make good barometers precisely because nobody subsidises or caps them. The main page runs the same comparison across the full basket.
| Year | Pounds | Sats |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | £6.99 | 3,861,878 |
| 2016 | £7.49 | 1,698,413 |
| 2017 | £7.99 | 279,468 |
| 2018 | £7.99 | 150,983 |
| 2019 | £8.99 | 152,813 |
| 2020 | £8.99 | 98,661 |
| 2021 | £9.99 | 28,752 |
| 2022 | £10.99 | 49,695 |
| 2023 | £10.99 | 46,517 |
| 2024 | £10.99 | 21,010 |
| 2025 | £12.99 | 16,816 |
Source: Netflix published UK price changes, Standard plan. Series pending external verification. Sats = fiat price ÷ BTC price in that currency × 100,000,000, using yearly average BTC rates. Data vintage 2026-07-04. Full method on the main page.