PlayStation Plus guide: how much it costs, benefits, and how to cancel

PS Plus has three tiers — Essential, Extra, and Premium — that are hard to negotiate. This guide will help you break down the costs, benefits, and how to cancel.

PlayStation Plus guide: how much it costs, benefits, and how to cancel
Kes Eylers-Stephenson

Kes Eylers-Stephenson

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Sony's PlayStation Plus subscription service for PS5 and PS4 is a complicated beast. In this handy article, we are breaking down all information for Essential, Extra, and Premium into the PlayStation Plus guide — cost, benefits, and how to cancel a subscription.

How much does PlayStation Plus cost?

This table contains the PS Plus costs prices for the three major Western regions: The US, UK, and Europe. In other regions, Deluxe is on offer instead of the Premium tier and comes for a cheaper price, but without the ability to stream PS3 games. The prices are, in order: monthly, quarterly, and yearly. Here is the cost of every PlayStation Plus tier:

PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra, Premium tier prices

Tier USD GBP Euro
Essential $9.99 / $24.99/ $79.99 £6.99 / £19.99 / £59.99 8.99€ / 24.99€ / 71,99€
Extra $14.99 / $39.99 / $134.99 £10.99 / £31.99 / £99.99 13.99€ / 39.99€ / 125,99€
Premium $17.99 / $49.99 / $159.99 £13.49 / £39.99 / £119.99 16.99€ / 49.99€ / 151,99€

PlayStation Plus benefits

Below we have listed all the PS Plus benefits you can have in every tier. Note that all bolded entries are new additions for each tier and that Premium and Deluxe are offered mutually depending on the country: they are not two separate tiers.

PlayStation Plus Essential tier benefits

  • Monthly Games — three PS5, PS4 downloadable games
  • Exclusive discounts
  • Cloud storage for saved games
  • Online multiplayer access
  • Game help

PlayStation Plus Extra tier benefits

Additional benefit:
  • Game Catalogue of around 400 downloadable PS4 and PS5 games
Also Included:

  • Monthly Games — three PS5, PS4 downloadable games
  • Exclusive discounts
  • Cloud storage for saved games
  • Online multiplayer access

PlayStation Plus Premium tier benefits

Additional benefit:
  • Classics Catalogue containing remasters and remakes, as well as PS2, PSP, and PS1 emulated games
  • PlayStation Plus game trials
  • Cloud Streaming for PS3 titles
Also included:
  • Game Catalogue of around 400 downloadable PS4 and PS5 games
  • Monthly Games — three PS5, PS4 downloadable games
  • Exclusive discounts
  • Cloud storage for saved games
  • Online multiplayer access

PlayStation Plus Deluxe tier benefits

Additional benefit:
  • Classics Catalogue containing remasters and remakes, as well as PS2, PSP, and PS1 emulated games
  • Game Trials
Also included:
  • Monthly Games — three PS5, PS4 downloadable games
  • Exclusive discounts
  • Cloud storage for saved games
  • Online multiplayer access

How to cancel PS Plus

PS Plus guide

You can cancel PS Plus in three ways — on a web browser, on your PS4, or on your PS5 — as listed step by step below. You will keep your PS Plus benefits for the period during which you purchased your subscription, so you'd lose access to the basics like multiplayer and cloud saves, as well as any game you received through PS Plus. This includes monthly games, your Games Catalog on Extra, and your Classics Catalog on Premium.

Canceling through the web browser

  1. Sign onto the Sony account page.
  2. Select 'Subscription' from the menu on the left of the screen, this will take you to the PlayStation Store so give it a moment to load.
  3. Choose the 'Cancel Subscription' in the drop-down of the PlayStation Plus option.

Canceling through PS5

  1. Go to the Settings menu and select 'Users and Accounts.'
  2. From here, choose 'Account,' 'Payment and Subscriptions,' 'Subscriptions,' and then 'PlayStation Plus.'
  3. Choose 'Cancel Subscription.'

Canceling through PS4

  1. Go to 'PlayStation Plus'
  2. Then find the 'Manage Membership' option and click 'Subscription.'
  3. Choose 'Cancel Subscription.'
This concludes our guide. Check out our best PlayStation Plus games for more on Sony's subscription. As always, we take suggestions as to what additions would be useful here. So, if you have any, just pop them in the comments down below!
Written by Kes Eylers-Stephenson
Editor Kes is our resident expert in PlayStation and other gaming news. He writes about PS5 exclusives like The Last of Us and Horizon, PS Plus news, and his favorite games — The Witcher, Assassin’s Creed, and God of War — before an evening swim.
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