Netflix Standard plan, monthly priced in Bitcoin: 2015 to 2025

Netflix Standard plan, monthly (per month) cost $8.99 in 2015 and $17.99 in 2025, a change of +100.1% in US dollars across 10 years. The figures are annual averages from Netflix published US price changes, Standard plan. The fiat peak in this series came in 2025 at $17.99.

Priced in sats, the same item went from 3,293,040 sats to 17,629 sats, a change of −99%. 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 +90% in sats terms. Short windows can and do run against the holder; the direction across the full series is what the chart shows.

The American Netflix Standard plan doubled in dollars across the 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.