Best Disney Plus deals: Stream Marvel, Star Wars and more from £4.99 a month

There’s no shortage of streaming services to choose from these days and  has set itself out as one of the biggest hitters, with some of the best franchises under its banner. Starting out as one of the most affordable streaming services, recent price increases have seen subscribers looking to bring the cost down.

Disney+ subscribers get access to every  film, animated classics from Walt Disney, almost every film in the ongoing (MCU), the latest movies from Pixar Studios and Fox Searchlight, and award-winning documentaries from National Geographic, among others. There’s also an ever-expanding catalogue of films and boxsets filmed exclusively for Disney+ subscribers, including shows like Skeleton Crew, Agatha All Along, Shōgun, Indiana Jones, Daredevil, and Welcome to Wrexham.

That huge selection has helped Disney+ become one of the world’s most popular streamers alongside the likes of Netflix, Apple TV+ and Prime Video – which still offers to binge-watch without paying.

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Unfortunately, the  is no longer available in the UK and unfortunately, a new round of price increases came into effect on 17 October 2024, which subscribers are now seeing in their bills.

How to get the best Disney Plus deal

Despite increasing prices, there are still things you can do to reduce the ongoing cost. Disney+ monthly plans start at £4.99 for the , which is the cheapest way to access the service – but it includes adverts. 

The Standard plan is the same quality but doesn’t have adverts and allows downloads, but costs £8.99 a month. The Premium plan is the most expensive at £12.99 a month, but gives access to the best 4K HDR content, with Dolby Atmos sound.

On these latter two you can save money with , which drops the price of the Standard plan to £89.90 – the cost of a 10-month subscription – effectively giving you . An annual Premium subscription costs £129.90, again giving you two months free.

But there are a couple more options available to you, which are explained below.

Get 3 months of Disney Plus for £7.50

If you shop at Tesco, .

A three-month subscription to the Standard with Ads plan will cost just £7.50 in Clubcard vouchers, compared to the normal price of £14.97, so you save £7.47. It’s worth noting that this is only available through Clubcard, you can’t buy it with cash.

Or you can use £12 in Clubcard vouchers for the Standard plan, worth £23.97 – saving you £11.97.

However, this can’t be added to an existing subscription. If you’re already a Disney+ subscriber, you’ll have to wait for your subscription to end, cancel your subscription and then reactivate following the instructions from Tesco.

Get £2 a month off Disney Plus with O2

O2 customers can enjoy some stellar deals on Disney+ right now. If you’re looking to buy a new smartphone or upgrade to a new SIM-only plan, . O2 offers a range of free subscriptions to new customers or existing users who take out a new plan, including Amazon Music, Prime Video and Audible.

You’ll need to select Disney+ when presented with the list of O2 Extras during checkout. This deal is available on the most popular smartphones available today, including the latest iPhone, Samsung Galaxy and more. You can

If you’re already with O2, you can still enjoy a discount. If you add Disney+ to your current plan , the subscription fee (£7.99) will be included as part of your monthly direct debit. However, O2 will discount your bill by £2 each month just for linking your Disney Plus subscription to your O2 account. That means .

And that £2 a month discount isn’t limited to the same six-month promotional period as the free subscription, either. As explained in the small-print on O2’s website “we’ll give you £2 off your bill each month for as long as you keep the paid Disney+ Extra”. That makes it a slightly better deal than buying a 12 month subscription direct from Disney Plus, although of course, if you’re not already with O2, you’ll need to calculate whether you’ll be able to get the same deal on your phone bill as your current provider.

Disney Plus price rise in 2024

On 17 October 2024, Disney+ upped its prices across the monthly and annual subscription tiers. The Standard with Ads plan has remained at £4.99, but the Standard and Premium plans have increased by £1 or £2 a month respectively:

• Disney Plus Standard with Ads – £4.99
• Disney Plus Standard – £8.99 per month, or £89.90 annually
• Disney Plus Premium – £12.99 per month, or £129.90 annually

While the Premium subscription now seems fairly pricey, it offers a bigger saving compared to paying monthly, so there’s a bigger incentive to pay for a year upfront. It also includes the ability to stream in 4K with HDR, Dolby Atmos surround sound, and the ability to stream on four devices simultaneously.

An annual Premium subscription now costs £129.90, or roughly the cost of 10 months with a rolling monthly plan which saves £25.98. Both the Standard Plan or Standard with Ads Plan on Disney Plus max-out at a 1080p High Definition (HD) resolution with Stereo Sound or 5.1 Surround Sound but not Dolby Atmos. These subscriptions enable up to two devices to watch content with the same login simultaneously.

What is Disney Plus?

Disney+ is a video streaming service launched by the House Of Mouse to compete with the likes of Netflix and Prime Video in 2019.

The Walt Disney Company had previously experimented with its own subscription service with the launch of DisneyLife in the UK in late 2015. However, Disney had signed deals with a number of companies, like Sky TV and Virgin Media, to broadcast the Disney Channel and a number of its blockbuster movies. Netflix and Prime Video also carried a number of Walt Disney-owned titles, and the former was the home to a number of exclusive shows with Marvel characters, including Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and more.

But all that changed with the arrival of Disney+. The boxsets previously produced exclusively for Netflix now appear exclusively on Disney’s own streaming platform. Disney+ is available via a subscription – there is no free trial, but access starts from £4.99 a month.

The Disney Channel is no longer available on Sky TV and Virgin Media TV. Instead, it can be streamed exclusively on Disney+. In March 2020, DisneyLife was shuttered and completely superseded by Disney+.

Disney Plus hosts a number of shows unavailable anywhere else. The critically acclaimed Only Murders In The Building, The Bear and Shōgun, which all premiered as exclusive series on Hulu and FX in the United States, can only be watched on Disney+ in the UK.

A number of films, like Poor Things, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and All of Us Strangers also premiered on Disney+ in the UK after leaving the cinema. The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe films, like Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, The Marvels and Thor Love and Thunder, arrived on Disney Plus within weeks of leaving cinemas, with Deadpool & Wolverine doing the same.

Disney also commissioned a number of shows exclusively for Disney+, including The Kardashians, which sees the Kardashian family return to reality telly following the end of their Keeping Up With The Kardashians show.

When did Disney Plus launch?

Disney+ made its debut in the United States, Canada and Netherlands at midnight on 12 November 2019.

It was followed by an expansion to Australia, New Zealand, and Puerto Rico on 19 November, before its release in mainland Europe and the UK came around in March 2020. Disney+ is currently available in over 130 countries and territories around the globe.

For comparison, Netflix is now available in 190 countries worldwide. When the US streaming service rolled out across the globe in 2016, expanding from 60 countries to 190 nations in one fell swoop, then CEO Reed Hastings announced that it was “the birth of a new global Internet TV network”.

What’s available to watch on Disney Plus?

Disney+ brings together a wealth of content owned by the Walt Disney Company, including the feature-length animated films that its brand is most associated with, like Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, Sleeping Beauty, films and shorts from Pixar Studios (acquired by Walt Disney in 2006), such as Toy Story, Wall-E, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, and Inside Out 2.

It also bundles every entry in the Star Wars saga, which became part of Walt Disney following its acquisition of George Lucas’ Lucasfilm in October 2012 for $4 billion, as well as exclusive new entries, like the award-winning The Mandalorian, beloved animation The Bad Batch and hugely-popular Obi-Wan Kenobi. The events of these shows are considered canon and could impact future feature film instalments set in the Star Wars universe. The most recent addition is Skeleton Crew, which launched on 4 December.

The Simpsons, which came under the ownership of Walt Disney when it bought most of the properties owned by 20th Century Fox in December 2017, is available in its entirety on Disney+ with new episodes arriving each week as they air on FOX in the United States. Other titles previously owned by 20th Century Fox, including the likes of Alien, Die Hard, The X Files, Avatar, X-Men, Deadpool, Ice Age, Independence Day, Family Guy, American Horror Story, Prison Break, to name a few, are available on Disney+ under the banner of sub-brand Star.

Disney+ also includes almost all entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), which has been owned and operated by Walt Disney since 2009. This comprises 33 film instalments in the ongoing saga – which includes some of the biggest blockbuster hits of all time – like Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War and The Avengers, which have all cracked the top ten biggest grossing films in the history of cinema. The only MCU film not currently available on Disney+ is Spider-Man: No Way Home, due to its complicated streaming rights situation with Sony, which previously owned the rights to the character.

Disney+ is the exclusive home to a number of new series set in the same universe. Shows like WandaVision, Loki, Moon Knight and Agatha All Along are already available to stream, with new entries in the pipeline like Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2025) and Daredevil: Born Again (2025).

Boxsets created in collaboration with Netflix, like Jessica Jones, Daredevil, and Iron Fist, were removed from the rival streaming service and found a new home on Disney+. One of the most popular Netflix-produced shows, Daredevil, has been renewed by Kevin Feige and the team at Marvel years after Netflix squashed all dreams of further adventures. The new show, Daredevil: Born Again, is slated to arrive in March 2025 and will be tightly integrated with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Music lovers can also enjoy a raft of fascinating and exclusive Disney+ content from the world’s biggest artists, like Taylor Swift’s extended concert film The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) and The Beach Boys. The Beatles fans can enjoy the eight-hour epic series Get Back from The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson alongside the recently restored 1970 film, Let It Be, with Beatles ’64 – which chronicles The Fab Four’s first visit to the US – launched on 29 November.

Rounding out the selection on Disney+ is National Geographic, which hosts a number of its most popular and critically-acclaimed shows and films, including Free Solo, The Rescue, and Cosmos. A number of new shows, developed for Disney+, have also appeared under the National Geographic banner, like Limitless with Chris Hemsworth.

What devices can I watch Disney Plus on?

Like most modern video streamers, Disney+ is available on a wide range of devices. However, each subscription is limited to a maximum of four devices simultaneously, so larger families will need to make sure they’re under the limit before launching the Disney+ app on another device.

You can create up to seven profiles with each Disney+ subscription, which will be synchronised across all of your devices, so you’ll be able to see your Watch List across all of your gadgets and resume any ongoing boxsets or movies with a single tap. Everything you watch on your Disney+ profile – even if it’s across different devices – will be used to improve the intelligent recommendations surfaced on the main menu when you login.

Here are all the ways to watch Disney+

• Web Browsers (Google Chrome version 75 or newer, Microsoft Edge, Firefox 68 or newer, and Apple Safari 11 or newer)
• Amazon Fire tablets
• Amazon Fire TV streaming set-top boxes and Smart TVs
• Android phones and tablets running OS 5.0 (Lollipop) or newer
• Android TV
• Apple iPad
• Apple iPhone
• Apple TV 4th Generation or newer
• Google Chromecast
• Google TV
• Hisense Smart TVs
• LG WebOS-powered Smart TVs
• NOW (formerly NOW TV)
• Panasonic Smart TVs
• PlayStation 4
• PlayStation 5
• Roku streaming set-top boxes
• Roku-powered Smart TVs
• Samsung Smart TVs
• Sky Glass
• Sky Q
• Sky Stream
• Windows 10 & 11 tablets and computers
• Xbox One
• Xbox Series S
• Xbox Series X

Upcoming Disney Plus releases for 2025

Despite launching a few years ago, Disney+ has built up an enviable library of shows and movies that you cannot watch anywhere else. Excitingly, Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek has confirmed that it plans to add much more content to the streaming service in the coming months and years.

There’s already plenty on the horizon to get excited about, including Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Daredevil Born Again, Ironheart, The Doomies, New Storm Rising and more.

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