Disney+ Bundle Review: Every Permutation, and the Tier That Rises on 17 September 2026

Disney now sells at least nine bundle combinations between 12.99 and 54.99 dollars a month. Hulu is losing its app, ESPN+ has become ESPN Select, and one legacy tier rises this month.

The Disney+ bundle is no longer one product with one price. Disney’s own bundle page on 1 September 2026 sells at least nine combinations, running from 12.99 dollars a month for Disney+ and Hulu with advertising up to 54.99 dollars for the premium trio with NFL+. Two of the three brands inside those bundles have shifted underneath the people paying for them: Hulu is being folded into the Disney+ app and its standalone app decommissioned during 2026, and ESPN+ is now sold under the name ESPN Select. One bundle goes up on 17 September.

Bundle prices, read from Disney’s own page on 1 September 2026

• Disney+ and Hulu, both with ads: 12.99 dollars a month
• Disney+ and Hulu, both ad-free: 19.99 dollars a month
• Disney+, Hulu and HBO Max with ads: 19.99 dollars a month; ad-free 32.99 dollars
• Disney+, Hulu and ESPN Unlimited with ads: 35.99 dollars a month
• Legacy Disney+, Hulu and ESPN Select bundle: 24.99 dollars, rising to 27.99 on 17 September 2026

Nine permutations, from 12.99 to 54.99 dollars a month

Disney sells the bundle as a grid rather than a product, and the grid is the first thing worth reading carefully. These are the combinations listed on the Disney+ bundle page today, all of them monthly:

• Disney+ and Hulu, both with ads: 12.99 dollars, with a promotional 11.99 dollars for the first six months
• Disney+ and Hulu, both ad-free: 19.99 dollars, promotionally 17.99 dollars for six months
• Disney+, Hulu and HBO Max with ads: 19.99 dollars
• Disney+, Hulu and HBO Max with no ads: 32.99 dollars, though advertising still runs in selected live and linear content
• Disney+, Hulu and ESPN Unlimited with ads: 35.99 dollars, or 44.99 dollars with Disney+ and Hulu ad-free
• Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Unlimited and NFL+ Premium: 45.99 dollars, or 54.99 dollars in the premium version
• Disney+, Hulu and ESPN Select with ads: 21.99 dollars, rising to 22 dollars on 17 September 2026

The maths that makes the cheapest tier worth buying

TheWrap’s account of the October 2025 increases put Disney+ With Ads and Hulu With Ads at 11.99 dollars each. Bought separately that is 23.98 dollars; bought as the ads duo it is 12.99. Saving roughly eleven dollars a month for taking two services instead of one is the strongest number in the whole grid, and it is why the entry bundle rather than a standalone subscription is the sensible default for most households.

The 32.99 dollar ad-free trio is where the arithmetic gets less friendly. Disney’s own page notes that even on that tier advertising still appears in selected live and linear content, so the premium a subscriber pays does not buy the thing the tier’s name promises across the board. A reader deciding between 19.99 and 32.99 dollars is paying thirteen dollars a month for a partial exemption from advertising, not a total one.

Hulu is becoming a row inside Disney+, not an app you open

Disney started merging Hulu’s catalogue into Disney+ in spring 2024, and local broadcaster WDBJ7 reported at the end of 2025 that Hulu is now fully integrated into the Disney+ app, with the separate Hulu app due to become unavailable during 2026. Hulu + Live TV is scheduled to be folded into Disney+ in the same period. Disney has not announced an exact shutdown date, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing.

That has a direct effect on how these plans should be read. The sign-up flow now surfaces bundles rather than individual Hulu plans, which means the word bundle is drifting from describing several services toward describing a billing arrangement for one application. A subscriber whose viewing habits are entirely Hulu is, on the current trajectory, going to end up inside Disney+ regardless of which box they ticked at checkout.

ESPN+ is a plan name Disney stopped using

Anyone searching for an ESPN+ review in 2026 is researching something that no longer appears at checkout. The plan is sold as ESPN Select, and the more expensive flagship tier is ESPN Unlimited; both names appear on Disney’s bundle page, and TheWrap’s coverage of the October 2025 rises already listed the cheaper tier as ESPN Select when its price moved from 11.99 to 12.99 dollars.

The practical consequence is that the sports component of the bundle now has two very different price points. ESPN Select sits inside the 21.99 dollar trio; ESPN Unlimited sits inside the 35.99 dollar one. The gap between those two bundles is fourteen dollars a month, and it is entirely a sports decision. Anyone who does not watch live sport should not be looking above the 19.99 dollar line at all.

The 17 September rise lands on a bundle nobody can sign up for

Cord Cutters News reported that the legacy bundle of ad-free Disney+, Hulu with ads and ESPN Select with ads moves from 24.99 to 27.99 dollars a month on 17 September 2026. That is three dollars a month, thirty-six dollars a year, and it applies only to subscribers who enrolled before 20 August 2026 and have never cancelled or switched plans since. The trio with ESPN Select goes from 21.99 to 22 dollars on the same date, and its premium version from 32.99 to 33 dollars.

It is worth being blunt about the shape of that. The condition for qualifying for the largest of these increases is uninterrupted loyalty to a plan Disney has closed to newcomers. Customers who churned out and back in are not affected; customers who stayed put are. Loyalty pricing normally runs the other way, and a legacy subscriber reading their September statement is entitled to notice that.

October 2025 took Disney+ Premium up five dollars in a single step

The increases that landed on 21 October 2025 were not evenly distributed. TheWrap recorded Disney+ With Ads going from 9.99 to 11.99 dollars and Hulu With Ads doing the same, while Disney+ Premium went from 13.99 to 18.99 dollars a month and its annual plan from 139.99 to 189.99 dollars. The duo with ads moved from 10.99 to 12.99; the trio with ESPN Select from 16.99 to 19.99; the Hulu Live TV package from 82.99 to 89.99 dollars.

Read those together and the pattern is that ad-supported tiers took two dollars while the ad-free premium tier took five, and its annual plan took fifty. The subscribers paying most to avoid advertising absorbed the largest increase, which sits awkwardly beside Disney’s stated reason for the rises: that it increases prices, in the company’s words, so that it can continue to invest in its content and its products.

A 50 million dollar antitrust settlement that does not pay Disney+ subscribers

Biddle v. The Walt Disney Company, case 5:22-cv-07317-EJD in the Northern District of California, alleges that Disney engaged in conduct that raised the prices of streaming live pay television. Fox Business reported the 50 million dollar settlement fund and the class it covers: not Disney+ subscribers, but people who paid for YouTube TV or DirecTV Stream between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2026.

The dates matter more than the headline. Claims close on 8 September 2026, a week after this was published, and the final approval hearing is set for 14 January 2027. A reader who has ever run a live television subscription alongside their Disney bundle should check the class period before that deadline, because the money on offer has nothing to do with the streaming service they were searching for.

Sources: Disney+ · TheWrap · Cord Cutters News · WDBJ7 · Fox Business