How Much Do YouTube Subscribers Cost? Views & Watch Hours (2026)

Views are sold per video: a views package goes to one public video link and moves that video's view count. According to YouTube's help page on how engagement metrics are counted, since August 24, 2026 a view is counted the moment a video starts to play, across long-form videos, Shorts and live streams. The same page says YouTube may temporarily slow down, freeze or change a count and discard low-quality playbacks, so the number under a video is always YouTube's to adjust.[3]

The Premium views tier starts at 1,000 views. The cheapest views package in the catalog today costs $19.99, and all 18 view packages run up to $74,250.99. The tier section below explains what the two names mean, and what we do not claim about them.

The watch-hour product is sold in hours: the quantity on each package card is the number of watch hours ordered, delivered as viewing sessions on the public video you enter. The service page states which videos can be a target. It comes from a Global list with two tiers: the table lists the Premium packages, while the Standard tier on the service page covers 250 to 250,000 hours.

Premium caps out at 10,000 hours. Bigger watch-time plans are served from the Standard tier, whose full ladder appears on the service page. For reference, a thousand Premium hours come to $69.99.

All three YouTube products in our English-market catalog come from Global lists (Global Subscribers, Global Views and Global Watch Time), each split into a Standard and a Premium tier. Global means the list carries no country targeting. The tier names are not a grade: the catalog attaches no account attribute to either tier, so what we can show you is which quantities each tier sells and at what price; both tiers consist of real profiles. Every package, Premium or Standard, has SociShop's own refill of 30, 90 or 365 days, set by the package's USD list price and shown on its card. The Premium watch-hours package requires a 60-minute video. If the count drops inside that period (30, 90 or 365 days, as the card shows), we top it back up, up to the quantity delivered. This market's catalog has no country-targeted YouTube list.

What we do not claim: we publish no drop rate or survival rate for either tier. We have no measured figure, YouTube publishes none, and we cannot measure one for your channel.[1]

Package prices are easier to compare once they sit on the same unit. The table divides each package price by its quantity: the price of one subscriber, of 1,000 views, or of one watch hour. It is computed from the same catalog rows as the tables above and changes with them.

One plain statement first. Bought subscribers, views and watch hours are social proof: they make a channel or a video look established at first glance, which changes how a new visitor or a potential sponsor reads it. Nothing promises that the accounts behind them will watch your next upload, comment or share, and no package, ours or anyone else's, can promise recommendations, search placement or monetization.

Included in every YouTube package

Not included, whatever you pay

A low price is not a warning sign by itself. The warning signs are the ways a seller makes an impossible price work, and they look the same whoever the seller is:

Here is where we stand, in writing: no password, a stated refill period on the package card and the remaining conditions in our terms, a catalog price that checkout charges as shown on the card, and a plain description of the product: social proof.

Further reading: our Instagram follower and Facebook like price guides use the same live-catalog tables for those platforms. For YouTube, the guides on bought views and the 4,000-hour threshold, on monetization requirements, and on high-retention views go into what YouTube actually counts.