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 $1.99, and all 13 view packages run up to $999. 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. Like the other two products, it comes in a Standard and a Premium tier from a Global list.

Premium watch hours stop at 2,500 hours; the Standard ladder continues to 100,000 hours, whose package costs $2,199. At 1,000 hours, Premium costs 8.1 times Standard ($249.99 against $30.99).

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, at what price, and what the suppliers behind the tiers state about their sources. As of September 23, 2026, the Premium subscriber source comes with its supplier's own 30-day refill, and the Premium views source with its supplier's own lifetime refill. Both watch-hour tiers come with a supplier 30-day refill; the Premium watch-hour supplier requires a 60-minute video, and the Standard watch-hour supplier describes its product as YouTube views that count toward watch time, with a 60-second watch. A supplier's refill is a commitment to us, not a promise we pass on to you: what we promise you in writing is our own 30-day refill, on every package. As of the same date there is no country-targeted YouTube list in this market's catalog.

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. What YouTube does say, in its fake engagement policy, is that terminated accounts and subscribers identified as spam will not count toward a channel's total subscribers or views. When that happens is YouTube's decision, on YouTube's schedule, whichever tier the order came from.[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. They are not an audience. The accounts behind them will not 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

YouTube's rules on this are explicit, and a seller should say so. Its fake engagement policy does not allow anything that artificially increases the number of views, likes, comments or other metrics, nor content that links to or promotes third-party services that inflate views, likes and subscribers. Traffic found to be artificial is not counted. A first violation will likely bring a warning; if the same policy is violated again within 90 days, the warning may not expire and the channel may get a strike, and a channel with three strikes within 90 days may be terminated. We sell these packages, and we would rather you read that here, before you order, than discover it afterwards.[1]

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 30-day refill, a catalog price that checkout charges as shown on the card, and a plain description of the product: social proof, not an audience.

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.