How Much Will It Cost to Stream Every Game of the 2024 NFL Season Without Cable?

The NFL has found a large, enthusiastic, and generous set of partners when it comes to streaming services. The league’s presence on streamers is steadily increasing every year, and fans have more ways than ever to watch pro football games. But diehard NFL completists who pride themselves on watching every game available during the season are likely looking at 2024’s broadcast arrangements with some frustrations, especially those who are cord-cutters and no longer have access to linear cable. Luckily, The Streamable’s knowledgeable experts are here to help guide viewers to all of the streamers that they’ll need to watch NFL games without cable this year and let you know how much you can expect to spend.

Key Details:

• Paramount+, Peacock, Prime Video, ESPN+, and Venu — the JV sports streamer on the way from Disney, Fox, and WBD — will all be must-haves this NFL season.
• Netflix is in talks to acquire a package of Christmas Day games.
• ESPN+ and NFL+ could be X factors for viewers who need to save a little money on NFL streaming.

How Much Will it Cost to Stream In-Market Games?

Throughout the week, the NFL and its broadcast partners have been releasing individual games, but on Wednesday, May 15, the league unveiled the 2024-25 season schedule. So, we here at The Streamable have gone through the entire slate of games to figure out the cheapest way for football fans across the country to see every game of the season.

Disney, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery Joint Venture Sports Streamer Venu

Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery have finally revealed the name of their joint venture sports streaming service: Venu Sports. Using Venu, NFL fans will have a new way to be able to stream Fox’s Sunday afternoon package outside of cable or live TV streaming services like DIRECTV STREAM, Hulu + Live TV, and Fubo. Every game that airs on your local Fox affiliate in the regular season and playoffs will stream on Venu.

The e-service is also highly likely to offer any NFL Network-exclusive games played in 2024, as ESPN is reportedly close to taking over NFL Media operations as part of an investment from the league in the worldwide leader in sports. That forthcoming platform will also include all of ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” broadcasts.

Most analysts, including The Streamable's experts have predicted that Venu will cost around $50 per month, so for the purposes of this exercise, we’ll proceed as if that will be the final price when the platform comes to customers.

You’ll need Venu all the way through February if you want it to stream NFL games since the 2024-25 season’s Super Bowl will air on Fox. It will also allow you to watch the NFC Championship and other playoff games, though, of course, any contests airing on NBC or CBS won’t be available.

Number of months needed: 6
Price per month: $50 (estimated)
Price for Venu season subscription: $300

Paramount+

So what’s missing from Venu? For starters, CBS. The current rights holder of the NFL’s other Sunday afternoon parcel of games is not involved with Venu, which means that cord-cutters will need to grab a subscription to Paramount+ for at least $5.99 per month to get access to those games. The streamer has two subscription plans, the ad-supported Essentials for $5.99 and the ad-free Paramount+ with SHOWTIME for $11.99. While only the latter comes with access to your local CBS affiliate, the lower-priced Essentials plan does provide streams of every NFL on CBS game available in your local market.

Keep in mind that even when opting for the “ad-free” plan, the lack of commercials does not apply to simulcasts of live broadcasts. So while you won’t have ads interrupting your movies and TV shows, the commercials that air as part of a football game — or anything watched via your CBS affiliate — will still have the ad breaks naturally built in.

You’ll want Paramount+ to watch games on CBS from September to January, as the channel will host the 2024-25 AFC Championship along with other playoff contests.

Number of months needed: 5
Price per month: $5.99
Price for Paramount+ season subscription: $29.95

Prime Video

“Thursday Night Football” is also not included with Venu, as national streams of those games are only available on Prime Video. The one exception is when you live in the local market of a team featured in that week’s matchup. During those instances, the games will also be broadcast on a local channel in each team’s home region. There is no consistency as to what channels those will be from market to market, so while there is a fairly good chance that it will be a channel available via one of the streaming options that we include, the easiest way to guarantee that you see every “TNF” game is with an $8.99 monthly subscription to Prime Video.

For the first time, Prime Video will offer a playoff game in 2024-25. This Wild Card game will be a streaming exclusive for all fans who don’t live in the home markets of the two teams playing, so you’ll need to keep Prime Video through January to watch.

Number of months needed: 5
Price per month: $8.99
Price for Prime Video season subscription: $44.95

Peacock

The price of streaming “Sunday Night Football” is about to go up. Peacock has announced that the price of its ad-supported plan is increasing to $7.99 per month this summer, so fans will have to pay a little more to see the exclusive Week 1 game on the streamer between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.

Like Paramount+, Peacock also has two subscription tiers, but both allow you to stream their NFL offerings. By the time that the NFL season kicks off this fall, the ad-supported Peacock Premium will cost the aforementioned $7.99 while the add-free Premium Plus will be $13.99. Like its Paramount-owned competitor, only the higher-priced tier provides access to your live, local affiliate, so while there are a lot of sports available on Peacock regardless of tier — including the NFL, Big Ten and [Notre Dame] football and basketball, the English Premier League, and more — the only way to see everything that NBC has to offer is with the Premium Plus plan.

Any NFL playoff games appearing on NBC will stream simultaneously on Peacock, just as regular season contests do. With that in mind, you’ll need to keep your Peacock subscription until at least January if you want to see all NFL games of the season on the streamer.

Number of months needed: 5
Price per month: $7.99
Price for Peacock season subscription: $39.95

ESPN+

There will be one ESPN+-exclusive regular season NFL game this year, a Week 7 matchup between the Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Chargers on Oct. 21. Fans of these two teams and NFL completists will need an ESPN+ subscription to watch it, and the service will also offer six total simulcasts of regular season and playoff NFL games appearing on ESPN.

If you’ve got Venu, you won’t need ESPN+, as all of that platform’s content will be included in the combined service. If you don’t, however, you can stream the Cardinals and Chargers in Week 7 with a one-time payment of $10.99.

Number of months needed: 1
Price per month: $10.99
Price for ESPN+ season subscription:$10.99

Netflix

On Wednesday night, it was confirmed that all of the smoke that had been visible about Netflix currently pursuing the NFL's Christmas Day bundle of games was indeed connected to fire. The NFL confirmed that the world’s largest streaming service has landed its first broadcast deal with a major sports league, which means that fans will need to fork over at least $6.99 per month more to subscribe to the ad-supported plan of Netflix; assuming the service makes the games available to all subscribers.

When Netflix first introduced its ad-supported Standard with ads plan, due to the complicated maze of licenses that had been signed before the philosophy-shifting change was made, some titles were not immediately available to consumers on the lower-cost tier. While some of those agreements have been modified to allow them to be streamed by all Netflix customers, not all of them have been. So, it is possible — though not likely — that the streaming giant could move their undoubtedly expensive new rights to a higher subscription tier.

If it does that, it would almost certainly be to the ad-free Standard plan, which runs $15.99 monthly, although the Premium plan, which costs $22.99 every month, is also a possibility. However, it is highly probable that should Netflix secure NFL rights it would put the Christmas Day games on all subscription tiers. The company has lagged behind other streamers in encouraging new customers to opt for the lower-priced tier. While Netflix obviously pulls in more subscription revenue from the more expensive tiers, it is ultimately able to generate more revenue per user on the ad-supported tier by combining the monthly subscription fee and the ad rates it is able to charge thanks to its dominant position in the market.

Number of months needed: 1
Price per month: $6.99
Price for Netflix season subscription: $6.99

What Is the Total to Stream All In-Market Games During the 2024 NFL Season?

So, if you add up all of those totals — except for ESPN+, since it would be redundant if you also had a Venu subscription to stream every in-market game of the 2024 season, you would pay $421.84.

However, your true cost could be much less expensive, as you may not need to keep all of these streamers for the entire NFL season if you are only interested in watching your favorite team. Each service on the list can be canceled at any point during the NFL year, ending your financial obligation until you decide to resubscribe.

So, if your team only plays one “Thursday Night Football” game in September, you can cancel for October, November, and December, and then, should your team be featured in Amazon’s Wild Card game, you can pick it up again. The same is true for streamers connected to broadcast and cable networks as well.

Total Price to Stream Every In-Market NFL Game in the 2024-25 Season: $421.84

How Much More Will it Be to Stream Out-Of-Market Games?

NFL Sunday Ticket is the only way to stream out-of-market regular-season NFL games, and it’s currently on sale for a limited time. Normally, viewers who subscribe to Sunday Ticket bundled with YouTube TV can expect to pay $349 per season for the package without the NFL RedZone add-on, and those who don’t want to go with YouTube TV as well will see the price for just Sunday Ticket rise to $449 for the season.

Until May 16, fans can save up to $215 on the 2024 season of NFL Sunday Ticket. Those who don’t bundle with YouTube TV will see the price drop to $349 for the year, while those who do can get the package for just $179 for the 2024 season with a limited-time discount.

Determining the monthly price here can get a bit tricky, but we’ll walk you through step-by-step. Viewers can split the price of their Sunday Ticket subscription into four monthly installments. Those who sign up for just Sunday Ticket at the current deal price will pay $87.25 per month, while those who subscribe to YouTube TV will pay $44.75. However, bundlers will also have to pay $57.99 per month for the YouTube TV subscription, raising their total monthly cost to $102.74. The last month will rise in price again, as the $57.99 rate is a promotional offer from YouTube TV for the first three months of service. After that time, YouTube TV’s rate rises to $72.99, and the added $44.75 for the final installment of Sunday Ticket brings the price to $117.74.

Number of months needed: 4
Promotional price per month: $44.75 - $87.25
Normal price per month: $87.25 - $112.25
Promotional price for NFL Sunday Ticket season subscription: $179 - $349
Normal price for NFL Sunday Ticket season subscription: $349 - $449

Are ESPN+ and NFL+ Money-Saving X-Factors?

NFL completists won’t have much use for ESPN+, which will offer six “Monday Night Football” games and NFL playoff games this year. But for fans who just want to see one game “MNF” offered on ESPN+ in the course of the season, the streamer can obviate the need to subscribe to Venu, particularly if viewers have an over-the-air antenna to watch Sunday afternoon games from Fox. ESPN+ is $10.99 per month, a big savings over the $50 per month Venu will cost.

NFL+ can also be a big help, if fans don’t mind watching games only on phones. This service carries every nationally-broadcast NFL game from various providers and gives viewers the chance to watch local games from broadcast networks as well. Viewers can only stream these games on mobile devices, but having NFL+ for $6.99 per month can negate the need to carry every other service if a subscriber’s favorite team is the one that plays in their local market.

Bottom Line

The amount it will cost you to stream the NFL this season depends on how much game inventory you want to get. If you’re only interested in watching your local team’s season from start to finish and you don’t care about the size of your screen, you can do so for as little as $6.99 per month with NFL+.

If you want the freedom to watch on any device and enjoy weekly doubleheaders on Fox and CBS, you’ll have to upgrade to a bundle of Venu, Netflix, Paramount+, Peacock, and Prime Video for $79.96 per month. Since you’ll only need Netflix in the month of December, the price will dip to $72.97 in September, October, and November.

Adding out-of-market games to make your broadcasting arrangements complete will be the most expensive proposition. This will add four monthly payments of $82.75 per each for non-YouTube TV customers, or $44.75 plus the cost of a YouTube TV subscription for those who do bundle, and these are just promotional prices that will rise after May 16. That means you could pay as much as $192.21 monthly for every in and out-of-market NFL game without a cable subscription.

One of the biggest advantages on-demand streaming has over linear TV is the flexibility and choice offered to customers. Viewers can sign up for streamers to watch a particular NFL game, then cancel with ease as the season goes along and that service no longer has games featuring their favorite team. That means customers can mix and match which streamers they have to suit their NFL needs and use this guide as a starting point to see which services will offer which games and how much it all costs.