Plex is tripling the lifetime Plex Pass price from $250 to $750 on July 1, with no new features added. A lifetime pass holder shares why this pricing trend — combined with remote streaming being moved behind a paywall — is eroding trust in Plex. Jellyfin is presented as a now-mature alternative: easy to set up via Proxmox LXC scripts, with solid first-party clients, free hardware transcoding, and a plugin ecosystem that covers most Plex premium features. The author remains on Plex due to sunk cost and CGNAT networking convenience, but has already set up a Jellyfin instance as an escape hatch.
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The new price of the Plex Pass isn't the pointJellyfin is a legitimate option for large media servers nowI'm still on Plex for now182 Impressions