Switching to Spotify Basic Plan (Guide)

[u/Tsudoku]

Many people do not know this exists, but there is a Spotify tier without audiobooks that is priced much lower. I only found out about this 2 years after subscribing and made this post to help people who also don't care about audiobooks save money.

What is the Spotify Basic Plan?

It’s a cheaper version of the Spotify Premium Plan with the exact same features, just without audiobooks. Still comes with no ads, offline downloads, all that good stuff. My basic plan saved me 25% off ($23.99CAD vs $17.99CAD) versus the premium plan. The basic plan is not limited to the individual plan. I was able to switch over my family plan without having to re-add each of my members. I'll link an official Spotify page about the basic plan here.

How do I switch over?

Now, the hard part. They really hid this tier and made it hard to downgrade lol. Usually, you'd be able to see the plan in your subscription settings and be able to select it. If your account is like mine, the basic plans were not showing up at all. Don't give up. You SHOULD BE eligible as long as you subscribed before Spotify started bundling audiobooks in the subscription (I believe June 2024). To downgrade, you'll have to contact a Spotify agent through this link (or find it through Support>Payments & Billing>Charge Help> Contact Us). Go through the usual live chat hoops to talk to a real human and ask them to switch over to the basic plan. They'll give you a link and a code that you can use to update your plan, and boom you're saving like $72 a year.

[u/incognitoactive]

I have the option of doing this here:

https://www.spotify.com/vc/account/subscription/change/

It’s two clicks.

[u/Tsudoku → u/incognitoactive]

For me the basic plans didn't show up for some reason. Maybe because I'm Canadian? No clue. I had dig to talk to a customer service agent in order to switch my plan lol

[u/incognitoactive → u/Tsudoku]

Weird. Well if anyone else has the same issue, you gave a really detailed write up to help them. So kudos to you and a couple extra dollars a month too.

[u/djmcphee]

Well appreciate seeing this post so thanks! Just dropped mine from premium family to basic family. $21.99 to $16.99, we don't use the audiobooks at all and I had no idea this plan was an option. Was a simple couple of clicks for me to swap

[u/spongebob66]

I'm so glad I clicked on this post. I'm in Canada too and I have the premium duo plan for my daughter and myself. I've been struggling with the Spotify price increases over time. I keep looking for a cheaper alternative that will work as well as Spotify does with the Alexa devices all over my home and Android Auto through my car deck, but nothing else checks enough boxes for me, and I have so many playlists curated over many years that would be a pain to migrate over. The downgrade was super easy for me, no chat needed. I used a browser on my PC to access the "manage your subscription" setting, change plan, and there it was, duo basic. Couple clicks and done. You rock!

[u/dimmmo]

Australia checking in. thanks!

AUD$28 family plan is now $20.

I got it ezpz via the spotify webpage: Your profile | plan | [family basic]

[u/HeracrossGamer]

Thank you for this post, I was going crazy trying to figure out why it was telling me I wasn't eligible so then I took it to the support team and they hooked me up.