Streaming ROI Calculator
It opens on a typical US line-up — real prices, average hours. Change the hours to what you actually watched and it will tell you your cost per hour, your monthly total, and which subscription is the worst value.
Where these starting numbers come from
The hours are not a guess and they are not about you — they are the US average, worked out from Nielsen's The Gauge for May 2026, which reports each service's share of all TV watch-time (48.6% of which was streaming), scaled by the 95.8 hours a month the average US adult spends streaming.
Two things that average hides. It counts people who don't subscribe, so if you actually pay for a service you almost certainly watch more than it says. And Nielsen reports Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ as one number, so they share one row here rather than being split by guesswork.
Prices are the ad-supported tiers. Type over any of it — the answer is only worth anything once the hours are yours.
Nielsen, The Gauge (May 2026) — platform share of total TV watch-time · eMarketer — US adults averaged 3 h 09 m/day with streaming video
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