Spotify has slashed the price of its Premium Standard subscription in India by 30% – and discontinued its entry-level Premium Lite tier entirely.
The Premium Standard plan in the territory – including ad-free listening, offline downloads, and audio quality of up to 320 kbps – has been reduced from ₹199 (approx. $2.24) per month to ₹139 (approx. $1.57) per month.
The move comes just six months after Spotify launched a revamped three-tier subscription structure in the market in November 2025.
According to Moneycontrol, Spotify‘s Student plan has also been cut, from ₹99 per month to ₹69 (approx. $0.78) per month – likewise a 30% reduction.
The ₹139 price point for the Standard tier is the same amount that Spotify‘s now-discontinued Premium Lite tier had been charging – meaning Indian subscribers are now getting the full Standard feature set for what they were previously paying for the stripped-back Lite product.
“We occasionally adapt the plans we offer, based on market opportunity and to provide choice and value to users… In India, the Lite plan is no longer available.”
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The Premium Platinum tier, priced at ₹299 per month and offering lossless audio and AI-powered features, remains unchanged, Moneycontrol reported.
“Spotify Lite users are being offered to move to Spotify Standard at the same price. Users have already been informed about this transition.”
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A Spotify spokesperson told local media: “We occasionally adapt the plans we offer, based on market opportunity and to provide choice to and value to users. In India, the Lite plan is no longer available.
“Spotify Lite users are being offered to move to Spotify Standard at the same price.”
The pricing changes represent a reversal of the trajectory Spotify had been pursuing in India.
In August 2025, the company raised its India subscription prices for the first time since launching in the market in February 2019. The individual Premium plan went from ₹119 to ₹139 per month at that time.
Then, in November 2025, Spotify overhauled its subscription structure in India and four other markets – Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the UAE – introducing three distinct Premium tiers: Lite, Standard, and Platinum.
That restructuring pushed the equivalent of a standard subscription from ₹139 to ₹199 per month – a 43% increase – while slotting the Lite tier in at ₹139 for users who did not need offline downloads or higher audio quality.
With this latest change, Spotify has effectively collapsed two of those three tiers into one, returning the full-feature Premium experience to a ₹139 monthly price point – the same level it sat at after the August 2025 hike and before the November restructuring.
India is one of Spotify‘s largest markets by user count, with the vast majority of its users remaining on the platform’s free, ad-supported tier.
According to a joint report from EY and FICCI published in March, 178 million people streamed music online in India in 2025, but only around 8% – or 14.4 million – were paying for it.
The number of paid subscriptions grew 37% year-over-year, however – a shift the report attributed to “measures by music streaming platforms to discourage free usage.”
The EY and FICCI report also noted that Wynk, Resso, and Hungama all ceased operations in India over the previous 18 months, concentrating the market among a smaller number of players.
Converting free users to paying subscribers in the market has been a long-running challenge for Spotify, which competes with local rivals including JioSaavn and Gaana, as well as YouTube Music and Apple Music.
Spotify‘s revised ₹139 price point positions it competitively but not cheaply.
Apple Music charges ₹119 per month in India – including lossless audio and Spatial Audio as standard – making it ₹20 cheaper than Spotify‘s Standard tier.
YouTube Premium, which bundles ad-free YouTube video with YouTube Music, costs ₹149 per month – a proposition that carries weight in a market where YouTube is the dominant video platform.
In October 2023, Spotify restricted features for free-tier users in India in an effort to push more listeners towards paid plans.
Globally, Spotify‘s Premium subscriber base stood at 293 million at the end of Q1 2026, up 9% year-over-year, with total monthly active users reaching 761 million, according to the company’s most recent earnings report.
While Spotify has been raising prices in developed markets – hiking its US Premium tier from $11.99 to $12.99 per month in early 2026 – its strategy in India now appears to be tilting in the opposite direction: lowering the barrier to entry in pursuit of subscriber volume.
Spotify paid out over $11 billion to the music industry in 2025, the company said – the largest annual payment to music creators in its history.Music Business Worldwide
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