Netflix prices in Belgium versus a TV subscription

Netflix starts at €10.99 per month in Belgium. In France the entry tier is €7.99, because the ad-supported plan already exists there. Here, it is announced for 2027. And at Proximus, television is not sold on its own: the cheapest bundle that contains it costs €75.99 off-promotion.

How much does Netflix cost in Belgium today?

Three tiers, from €10.99 to €21.99 per month.

The current prices were announced on 10 November 2025 and applied immediately to new members, then from the next billing date for everyone else. VRT, the Flemish public broadcaster, published the detail the same day: the entry tier went up €1, the two upper tiers went up €2.

Netflix Belgium rates in force since 10 November 2025, checked on 31 August 2026.

The extra member deserves a second of thought, because it moves the arithmetic. A household sharing its Premium plan with a student in a kot, the Belgian word for a rented student room, pays €26.98 per month, or €323.76 a year. On Essential the option does not exist at all: sharing outside the household is simply closed.

Why is the entry tier €10.99 here and €7.99 in France?

Because the ad-supported plan has not launched in Belgium yet.

Netflix announced it at an event in New York in May 2026, and Belga, the Belgian news agency, relayed the timetable: fifteen new markets in 2027, ours among them. The ad-supported plan will replace the current €10.99 entry tier, with reduced picture and sound quality and a single stream at a time. The Belgian price is not set. France pays €7.99 per month, Germany €4.99: a 60 percent gap between two neighbouring countries, which rules out any serious extrapolation.

I point this out because it is the most common source of error on the subject. A large share of what is written in French about Netflix pricing is written for French subscribers, and the headline figure it carries does not exist in Brussels or in Namur. A Belgian reader who arrives expecting €5.99 opens the app and sees €10.99.

The other platforms have already switched. HBO Max bills its ad-supported plan at €5.99 per month. Disney+ opened its own on 27 January 2026. Amazon added advertising to Prime Video in Belgium on 17 June, with €1.99 per month on top of a Prime membership to remove it. Among the major services active here, Apple TV+ is the only one that has not taken the step.

How much does Disney+ cost in Belgium since 27 January?

€6.99, €10.99 or €15.99 per month.

Disney+ Belgium rates in force since 30 September 2025, ad-supported tier opened 27 January 2026, checked on 31 August 2026. Extra household: €6.99 per month.

The price trajectory is worth a look, and L'Avenir reconstructed it in full. At its Belgian launch on 15 September 2020, Disney+ cost €6.99 per month with 4K and four simultaneous screens. That same level of service, renamed Premium, now costs €15.99. This is a rise of 128.7 percent in five years, in steps of 22 to 28 percent each time.

Put another way, the €6.99 tier Disney+ presents today as good news is the 2020 price, but with advertising, two screens instead of four, Full HD instead of 4K and no offline downloads at all. The amount has come back to where it started. The service has not.

Is Netflix cheaper through Proximus than direct?

No. To the cent, it is the same price.

I checked the Pickx TV options price list on 31 August 2026. Netflix Standard two screens is billed there at €16.99 per month, Netflix Premium four screens at €21.99, Disney+ at €10.99. Those are exactly the two platforms' public rates. The operator takes no visible margin and grants no discount.

The bundle, on the other hand, deserves checking rather than trusting. Proximus advertises a saving of €6.98 per month on Entertainment Premium. The claim holds, as long as you look at what it actually contains.

Pickx TV options price list checked on 31 August 2026, off-promotion rates.

So the saving is genuine. It rests entirely on Entertainment Standard, the in-house €12.99 block that brings thematic channels and a film catalogue. If all you wanted was Netflix and Disney+, you pay €27.98 buying them separately and €33.99 in the bundle. The bundle then costs you €6.01 more per month for content you did not ask for.

The same mechanism applies to All-in at €49.99 off-promotion: Pickx Sports at €24.99, plus the three blocks above at €40.97, come to €65.96 bought individually. The advertised gap of €15.97 per month is correct, or €191.64 over the year, and it only holds for a household that actually watches sport.

Does streaming cost less than a TV bundle over twelve months?

On paper yes, and the paper lies.

Netflix Standard and Disney+ Standard come to €27.98 per month, or €335.76 over twelve months. A Proximus bundle containing television starts at €75.99 per month off-promotion, or €911.88 for the year. The ratio looks crushing, except that the two lines do not pay for the same thing: the bundle also carries the internet connection without which neither platform opens.

The honest question is therefore the extra cost of television inside the bundle. And here I hit a wall that I would rather flag than work around: Proximus does not publish that figure, because the product does not exist. Its own help page answers the question "can I order TV as a standalone product?" in one word, and that word is no. The legal notice on the same page sets the only official floor: TV is available in a bundle with internet from €75.99 per month, checked on 31 August 2026.

You cannot, then, simply "remove television" at this operator. You can change bundles, and that is one bundle price against another bundle price, to be negotiated line by line with an adviser.

One stack pattern keeps turning up on the bills I read. Netflix Premium at €21.99, Disney+ Premium at €15.99 and HBO Max with ads at €5.99 come to €43.97 per month, or €527.64 a year, without a single Belgian news channel and without one Pro League football match. Three subscriptions are enough to move streaming from cheap alternative to second telecoms bill of the household.

What do you lose by dropping the set-top box?

Four things, and only one of them is genuinely expensive to replace.

Live Belgian channels go first, outside the public broadcasters' own apps. Auvio, run by French-speaking public broadcaster RTBF, and VRT MAX, its Flemish counterpart, stay free and carry both live and catch-up for the public channels in French and in Dutch. For a household watching La Une, La Deux, Tipik, één and Canvas, the real loss is small.

Recording goes next, and nothing replaces it. No streaming platform lets you schedule a recording and keep it for six months. Channel catch-up runs on an availability window, often seven to thirty days, and sports rights sometimes drop out of it within hours.

Sport is the item that sinks most plans to abandon the set-top box. The Pro League, Belgium's top football division, sits behind the Pickx Sports option, shown at €24.99 off-promotion in the table checked on 31 August 2026. Added to Netflix Standard and Disney+ Standard, it brings the monthly total to €52.97, and that figure still contains neither internet nor a set-top box.

The fourth point is less a service than a habit. When I was installing set-top boxes around Namur, the person who switched the television on most often in a house was almost never the person who had signed the contract. It was a parent, a grandparent, someone who wanted a remote, a channel number and nothing else. A streaming app asks for an account, a password and a profile. That is not a technical detail, it is why half the boxes I unplugged were plugged back in within the month.

Three situations where I drop television, and one where I keep it

I drop it when nobody in the household watches live, when sport means one tournament a year, and when Auvio covers the news. In that case Netflix Standard at €16.99 and Disney+ with ads at €6.99 cover the need for €23.98 per month, and what remains is renegotiating an internet bundle without television, which happens by phone and never through the online form.

I also drop it for a couple without children, where the television stays off five evenings out of seven. The box then costs more in fixed charges than it delivers in use.

And I drop it in a kot, where the contract term and the equipment return are rarely worth the few months of actual occupancy.

The price is judged on the thirteenth bill

The price of a TV subscription is judged on the thirteenth bill, not on the headline rate of the first twelve months. That holds for the bundle, and it holds for the platforms: Disney+ took back 128.7 percent in five years without a single subscriber having to sign anything.

For the overview of the six Belgian operators, with off-promotion rates set against promotional ones, see the TV subscription ranking or the comparator. Operator price lists are broken down in how much a TV subscription costs in Belgium. And if your decision is already made, cancelling Proximus, VOO or Orange without fees gives the timetable and the written procedure.

Sources. VRT NWS, "Netflix price hike in Belgium", 10 November 2025 (Netflix Belgium rates at €10.99, €16.99 and €21.99, extra member at €3.99 and €4.99, Digimeter audience shares from research institute imec); The Brussels Times with Belga, "Netflix to launch cheaper ad-supported subscription in Belgium next year", 14 May 2026 (ad-supported tier arriving in 2027, French rate at €7.99 and German at €4.99, advertising on Prime Video in Belgium from 17 June, ad tiers already live at HBO Max, Disney+ and Streamz); L'Avenir, "Disney+ lancera un nouvel abonnement en janvier 2026", 9 December 2025 (€6.99 tier opened 27 January 2026, price history from 2020 to 2025, HBO Max with ads at €5.99); Business AM, "Disney+ annonce des hausses de prix en Belgique", 4 October 2025 (Standard and Premium rates in force since 30 September 2025, extra household at €6.99); Proximus Pickx TV options price list and its legal notice, checked on 31 August 2026 (Netflix at €16.99 and €21.99, Disney+ at €10.99, Entertainment Standard at €12.99, Pickx Sports at €24.99, Entertainment Premium at €33.99, All-in at €49.99, Streamz from €11.95, TV not sold standalone, bundle with TV from €75.99).