Like many others, I’ve decided to cancel my Trakt VIP subscription. Doubling the price from $30 to $60 a year is just too much for me personally right now.
I’ve been a user here since 2013 and a VIP for the last 9 years, so it wasn’t an easy decision. I use the service sporadically depending on my watching habits, and while I value it, the new price point doesn’t align with my current usage.
My subscription is set to renew in December, so I’ll still have VIP access for roughly another six months. I’ll be using this time to see what new features or improvements come with this price jump and evaluate whether it might be worth signing up again in the future.
Despite cancelling myself, I truly hope enough people stick around to make it worthwhile and sustainable for Trakt going forward.
Just wanted to share my situation. I made sure to cancel now; since the subscription runs until December regardless, there’s no difference whether I cancel now or closer to the date, and doing it now means I won’t forget.
I posted my last message on Reddit as well, and surprisingly, it was removed. When I view the post while logged into my account, I can still see it. but when I check in incognito mode, or friend account it shows as removed. I honestly didn’t think the message was bad enough to be taken down, let alone to be muted for it. I guess that shows I truly made the right decision to no longer support Trakt. Just wanted to get this of my chest.
Weird! Does Reddit di the same thing as Facebook and such with showing comment not chronological or something? Or you having to select “all” or something otherwise you only see your own comments and the post popular ones?
I don’t quite understand the 100% price increase either. Trakt is a nice service to organize your watch history, but nothing more. Streaming is already damn expensive, but justified. Without the added value, I don’t see 60 dollars as realistic either. Let’s see what happens next. Now I have to compare the VIP features with the free version …
No expensive “dumb drinks” here (rather ironic with a user ID like yours? Alcoholic drinks cost a lot more than the average latté!), at least not more than 1 or 2 a month after chapel.
5 USD per month is nearly double what I pay for Spotify, for goodness’ sake, and I’m a power user over there! Speaking as a disabled person, it just isn’t reasonable for me to go from 30 to 60, especially not when I’ve scarcely used Trakt in months.
Just canceled.
30 USD was already pretty high price for that fraction of features I was using.
60 USD could work for me if streaming of everything included.
I don’t care if people spend money on Starbucks—my point was that it’s stupid for people to pretend that they’re not indulging in those consumerist tendencies while at the same time complaining about how much everything costs now as part of the reasoning behind cancelling their VIP. And your case is different anyway as you said you’ve barely used it in months, so it’s understandable that you wouldn’t want to pay that much. I’m not saying everyone has an obligation to renew, I just think that for the unique service the platform provides, $60 to continue to keep it around regardless of who owns it isn’t that bad in my eyes. Also, Letterboxd’s Patron price is basically the same yet no one ever complains about that (though maybe Trakt could do what Letterboxd does and have a Black Friday sale for their subscriptions every year, pricing VIP at a slightly reduced rate for a few days).
Furthermore, I respect the effort of trying to take a dig at me through my username, but while I do love a good mojito, it’s a reference to Miami Vice (2006).
Unique in what way? There are others offering the same core service now. Competition for Trakt has never been higher. Letterboxd is still working on their own TV-tracking platform, Simkl is feature rich and growing, Serialized has less features but also momentum with “normies” getting into the practice.
As someone who pays for two Letterboxd Patron-level memberships (each $10/y less than Trakt is now charging), I haven’t thought twice about continuing there while canceling Trakt VIP. I feel like I get more out of what they offer to paying members than Trakt does.
Others have mentioned this, but the wise move (other than continuing to respect grandfathered pricing) might have been feature tiers, as Letterboxd does. I use Trakt to mark episodes as watched and to look at stats at the end of the year. I never log into the website and my profile is private. Why would I pay twice for the promise of even more features I don’t have any need for?
This all feels like a major misunderstanding of the platform’s use by the majority of their users. Something that I’m sure can be supported by data to inform a more nuanced approach. By the response in this forum from decade-long users like myself, it seems they’ll be learning that the hard way.
I’m pissed! I’m one of the few people who don’t mind paying the $60. What I do care about is being lied to about being grandfathered in as long as I kept automatic billing enabled. Was that even six months ago?!?
We’re now over 675 replies deep, and still no follow-up from Marius — not even a simple reply to the direct question: Who are you?
That’s not just a communication gap — it’s a transparency failure. This entire situation is being driven by a faceless policy shift with no accountability. Marius isn’t listed on the Trakt team page, didn’t introduce himself, and hasn’t acknowledged any of the direct concerns users have raised here.
And that’s before even mentioning the pricing.
We’re not just canceling over a $30 hike. We’re canceling because this feels like a company that no longer knows — or respects — the community that built it. This thread is one of the clearest examples I’ve seen of what happens when leadership disengages and expects loyalty without reciprocity.
Well I canceled my subscription too.. This is no price increase it’s pure greed.
Anyway.. Let’s support the upcoming alternatives like we did with Trakt years a go. Hopefully they will appreciate the effort better.
Playing dumb? Not sure. It looks like there are some that are genuinely dumb. As stated beforeI think that they will be sutprised at the number of cancelations. The members canceling who complain are going to be a small portion of those that actually cancel. If, as I suspect, they are trying to make themselves more attractive to investor/buyers they are in for a big surprise. If there has already been a sale/cash infusion then the investor/buyer is in for a big surprise.
You’re absolutely right to call this out. That 30-day notice clause is a written commitment in their own Terms, not some obscure footnote. Announcing a price hike on May 13 and applying it on May 20 is a 7-day notice, not 30. Regardless of how anyone feels about the price itself, this isn’t just a bad look—it’s a breach of the very policy Trakt asks users to follow.
What’s worse is the lack of direct acknowledgment from the team. If users are expected to uphold Trakt’s terms, the least we should expect is for Trakt to honor theirs.
Thanks for highlighting this. It deserves a response from someone in authority—ideally someone who can actually speak on behalf of the company.
I get that $60/year isn’t a dealbreaker for everyone, especially for those who actively use Trakt daily. But for many of us, the frustration isn’t really about the cost itself—it’s about trust and principle. In your earlier post you said “I understand being angry about the reneging,” and that’s precisely it. Trakt explicitly promised users (1) grandfathered pricing, and (2) at least 30 days’ notice for pricing changes—both now broken. That’s not petty; that’s people reacting to a company disregarding its own terms and past public assurances.
You brought up Letterboxd, which is a fair comparison—but they’ve never retroactively revoked pricing tiers they explicitly grandfathered. Nor have they ever said, “We’ll honor your price as long as your auto-renew remains active,” and then walked it back.
This also isn’t just about some folks cancelling on impulse. It’s about clarity, consistency, and the value of keeping promises made to loyal users—especially after 10+ years. If Trakt had said last year that they planned to phase out grandfathered pricing in 2025, most would’ve understood. But they didn’t. They said “nothing changes,” then changed everything six months later.
So yeah, maybe it’s “just five bucks a month”—but for many, it’s also a reminder that user goodwill can be lost a lot faster than it’s earned.
