Paramount Plus in Australia: Price, free trial and content

Paramount Plus offers monthly and annual subscription options in Australia. The cheapest plan is a $6.99/mth ad-supported tier, while the Standard monthly plan costs $10.99/mth (or $97.99 per year), and the Premium Plan costs $13.99 per month (or $124.99 per year.)

The ad-supported tier offers HD streaming on just one device. We're firm believers that dealing with ads sort of defeats the purpose of an on-demand streaming service so naturally, we don't recommend this cheaper tier if you can help it. 

Next up on the Standard you'll get 1080p HD streaming and two simultaneous streams with no ads. Or you could opt for the Premium plan. This plan gets you 4K streaming, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos Audio on four devices, which is pretty good value compared to other streaming service prices.

Paramount Plus offers a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. You can either sign up for the trial directly through Paramount Plus or add the service to your Amazon Prime Video account.

After that first week you'll be charged for whichever plan you've signed up for, so if you're not happy make sure you cancel before the week is up.

Like every other streaming service, Paramount Plus occasionally rolls out deals and discounts for new subscribers. We tend to see these pop up around Black Friday, and other shopping holidays for Paramount Plus in particular, but there are a couple of ways to nab a discount year round.

We touched on this in the pricing section, but Paramount Plus offers discounts on its monthly price if you opt for an annual plan. Annual plans cost $61.99/yr for basic with ads, $97.99/yr for Standard, and $124.99/yr for Premium. These ostensibly give you 12 months of access for the price of nine, which is one better than most other services.

Across these plans you can save 26% across the board, or $21.89, $33.89, or $42.89 respectively, when compared to the month-by-month cost. If you're sure you'll watch plenty of Paramount Plus, it is the best option to save on your subscription.

Another way to consistently save with Paramount Plus is to access it via Optus' SubHub. SubHub is a subscription consolidation service that allows Optus customers to manage a range of subscriptions from one platform. Eligible subscriptions can even yield a discount of 5% off the total bill with two bundled subs, or 10% off for three or more.

Paramount Plus is one of the streamers eligible for the discount. It can be bundled with Netflix, Google One, Amazon Prime, Spacetalk, DAZN, BritBox, Binge, YouTube Premium, Hayu, and Microsoft 365, and Kindle Unlimited. It still won't get up to the 26% off you'll get with the annual plan, but it can make a bit of a dent across the board.

Late 2019, the Viacom-CBS merger fused the power of Paramount Pictures and the TV talents of CBS, creating a single media powerhouse, ViacomCBS. With their powers combined, the Viacom and CBS partnership came to a climax when the company revealed its new streaming service, Paramount Plus.

Paramount Plus combines the television shows from CBS with content from the various properties under the wider ViacomCBS banner, including but not limited to Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and MTV. The service also gets its fair share of blockbuster movies like Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, and Fast X.

If you're still not sure, read our review of Paramount Plus or just take it for a test drive. New customers are eligible for a seven-day free trial deal. 

Each Paramount Plus subscription allows for two simultaneous streams at once. That means you and another family members can stream Paramount Plus at the same time without any issues.

Paramount Plus is available to stream on all the usual suspects, like desktop via supported web browsers and smartphones and tablets via the iOS and Android apps but there are a few Australia-specific streaming devices in the mix too. Here's the complete list of compatible devices for Paramount Plus in Australia:

• Desktop (web)
• iPhone and iPads via iOS app (iOS 10 and iOS11+)
• Apple TV Gen 4 and later
• Android app (smartphone and tablet)
• Compatible Android TV devices
• Chromecast
• Google TV Streamer
• Compatible Fire TV devices
• Fetch TV
• Samsung Smart TV (2017 or later)
• LG Smart TV (2018 or later)
• Hubbl Hub and Hubbl Glass
• Apple Vision Pro
• PlayStation 5
• Xbox Series S|X
• Foxtel iQ3 and later

Here in Australia, Paramount Plus is home to prominent TV shows, classics such as Twin Peaks and  Dexter more recent hits like Landman and Yellowjackets.

Standout Comedy Central series like Nathan For You and Detroiters were previously unavailable in Australia for a time but have found a new home on Paramount Plus in Australia.

In addition to those popular TV series, Paramount Plus launched with a small collection of originals created exclusively for the service, including Aussie comedy-drama Five Bedrooms and the SpongeBob SquarePants prequel series Kamp Koral.

While the library may have launched a little light, it's developed a popular range of TV shows in recent years. Here's a small sample of some popular hits exclusive to the service:

• Dexter: Original Sin
• NCIS: Sydney
• Yellowjackets
• South Park
• Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
• Happy Face
• A Gentleman in Moscow
• 90210
• Why Women Kill
• Fraiser
• Sabrina The Teenage Witch

While Paramount Plus has gained popularity thanks to its original and exclusive TV shows, its movie collection instead relies on the company's library of classics and recent theatrical releases. 

There are over 400 movies available on Paramount Plus at the time of writing, the most popular of which include Top Gun, The Bridget Jones Diary series, Jurassic Park, Sonic The Hedgehog and Gladiator. 

Here's a quick look at some of the more recent movies added to Paramount Plus in Australia: 

• The Super Mario Bros Movie
• Mean Girls
• Five Nights at Freddy's
• Easy A
• The Craft
• Megan
• I Know What You Did Last Summer

Unlike its TV fare, CBSViacom has maintained its distribution deals with other streaming services. Top Gun, for example, is also available on Binge and Stan, and The Godfather can be streamed on Netflix and Stan too. 

All this is to say that you probably won't be subscribing to Paramount Plus for the movies alone, especially if you're already signed up for a number of streaming services. 

Prior to launch, ViacomCBS revealed an exclusive five-year partnership with the A-League and W-League that would see every match of both leagues streamed live on the paid Paramount Plus service. On free-to-air, there is one A-League match every Saturday on Channel 10 and one W-League match every Sunday on 10Bold during regular seasons. Both weekly matches are then syndicated to Network 10's digital catch-up service, 10Play. In addition to the A-League and W-League, Paramount Plus also has the rights to stream Socceroos and Matildas matches.

This makes Paramount Plussomething of a competitor for other Australian sports streaming services, such as Stan Sport, Kayo Sport and Optus Sport.

Compared to services like Disney Plus and Amazon Prime Video, the Paramount Plus TV show and movie library is quite thin. There are some great TV shows from Showtime, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon but the library of classic movies isn't comparable to most major streaming services. Still, it's growing by the day and recent originals like Dexter: Original Sin, The Agency and Landman have been good enough to draw a crowd. 

Take a look below to see how Paramount Plus compares for price and features.