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New offerings include lossless streaming in the Premium Platinum plan, priced at ₹299 per month
Spotify has launched new premium plans, including lossless streaming in India. Photo: Rasit Aydogan/Anadolu via Getty Images
Spotify is now offering new plans for Premium subscribers in India, with different pricing and launching lossless streaming in India.
While existing subscribers can continue with their Premium plans without any change in price or benefits, Spotify has now rolled out three different tiers of Premium subscriptions to replace their Premium Individual, Premium Duo and Premium Family tiers for new users.
The new plans also mark a cost increase, following a previous change in monthly prices to Premium subscriptions in August this year. Now, users can choose from Spotify Premium Lite at ₹139 per month (the same as the erstwhile Premium Individual plan) for ad-free listening with up to 160kbps audio quality.
Spotify Premium Standard at ₹199 per month adds audio quality up to 320kbps for listeners, as well as Offline access to tracks, playlists, and podcasts. The Premium Student is now priced at ₹99 per month with the same benefits as Premium Standard.
The big launch for the tech platform, however, is the Spotify Premium Platinum at ₹299 per month. While the Standard and Lite subscribers allow for one account each, Platinum subscribers can add a total of three accounts with lossless audio quality up to ~24-bit/44.1kHz.
Billed as “the most advanced plan,” Spotify’s Premium Platinum subscription in India also includes features such as AI DJ (introduced internationally in 2023), a music companion that recommends old favorites and new genres, described as a “guide that knows you and your music taste so well that it can choose what to play for you.”
AI Playlist, a feature that was launched in April this year in other markets, facilitates playlist creation based on a prompt of preference, adding track-to-track transitions for songs to flow together for house parties. Transitions can be tweaked based on volume, EQ and effect curves within the Spotify app.
Spotify has also teamed up with DJ software like Rekordbox, Serato, and Djay for Third Party DJ integration and Mixing Tools, which allows users to bring their Spotify music library to those platforms and plan their sets.
The Premium Platinum is now the highest-tier option, compared to the previous Premium Family plan, which was priced at ₹229 per month but also gave access to add up to six Premium accounts. Similarly, the Duo plan–which gave access to two accounts–is entirely done away with as things stand.
Find more details about Spotify’s Premium plans in India here.