Best Netflix Alternatives and Which Ones Work in Nigeria

Nigerians leaving Netflix have one straight swap: Prime Video at ₦2,300 a month. It is the only service here with a broad mix of originals and licensed films at a naira price, and it covers three screens. Apple TV at ₦1,300 is cheaper, for the shows you already know you want. Both cost less than Netflix’s ₦4,000 Basic plan, and the two together come to ₦3,600, which is ₦400 a month less than Basic.

Showmax is no longer an option. MultiChoice closed it in 2026, and its originals now sit inside DStv Stream, which costs far more.

With nothing to spend, go to YouTube first, then Plex. Most of the big American services do not reach Nigeria: Disney+, Hulu, Peacock, Tubi, Pluto TV and JioHotstar each say so to a Nigerian connection, Paramount+ shows a coming-soon page, and HBO Max does not list a single African country. Readers in the US, Canada, the UK or Australia should try Tubi before paying for anything, and the table says where each service is offered.

Everything here is a licensed service. We have left out pirate sites, and we have left out VPN tricks for getting round a region lock.

Fourteen services against Netflix’s Nigerian prices

Netflix’s Help Centre gives four prices for Nigeria: Mobile at ₦2,500 a month, Basic at ₦4,000, Standard at ₦6,500 and Premium at ₦8,500. Mobile plays on one phone or tablet at 480p and cannot be cast to a TV. Basic is the cheapest plan that plays on a TV, at 720p on one device at a time.

Prices are each service’s own. A service that will not open from Nigeria shows no price, and the gap is not filled from other websites.

Paid services that work in Nigeria

Prime Video

Amazon’s page for Nigeria prices Prime Video at NGN 2,300 a month, with a seven-day free trial. It plays on up to three devices at once, in a browser, in the phone and tablet apps and on some smart TVs, and every title can be downloaded. You get Amazon’s own originals, The Boys and Jack Ryan among them, plus licensed films and series.

It is ₦200 a month cheaper than Netflix’s phone-only Mobile plan and ₦1,700 cheaper than Basic. Over a year the gap to Basic is ₦20,400.

Apple TV

Apple now calls its streaming service plain Apple TV, the same name as its box. Apple’s Nigerian page gives ₦1,300 a month after seven days free, which makes it the cheapest paid service here. There are no adverts, and one subscription can be shared with up to five family members.

Apple describes the catalogue as hundreds of its own original shows and films: Severance, Slow Horses, Ted Lasso, The Studio. That is the whole offer. Films to rent or buy in the same app cost extra, and there is no back catalogue from other studios. At this price it works best as a second subscription next to something bigger.

DStv Stream, where Showmax went

DStv’s Nigerian site says the Showmax service was discontinued on 30 April, and that Showmax Originals now have their own section in the DStv Stream app. DStv lists the packages that carry them as Compact at ₦19,000 a month, Compact Plus at ₦30,000 and Premium at ₦44,500. On 5 November Compact becomes DStv Sports at ₦21,000. DStv adds that some Showmax titles could not move because of licensing, and that old profiles and watch histories were not carried across.

Even the cheapest of those costs more than eight times what Prime Video does. It is a TV subscription with a TV price, and only makes sense if you also want the live channels and football that come with it. The packages are set out beside DStv decoder prices.

Kava, for Nollywood

Kava calls itself the home of premium Nollywood and African cinema: films that have finished their cinema run, exclusives and its own originals. It says it is available in more than 190 countries and charges $5.99 a month. The price is in US dollars, so you need a card that can pay in dollars, and the naira cost moves with the exchange rate.

irokotv, the older Nollywood service, shows only a maintenance notice at its address, so it is not in the table.

MUBI

MUBI is for people who want cinema more than box sets. Its pitch is films picked by hand, by people who love film. The Nigerian page charges in US dollars: $7.99 a month, or $59.88 for a year, which works out at $4.99 a month and saves $36 over paying monthly. There is a seven-day free trial.

Free alternatives to Netflix

YouTube is the free service every reader already has. Broadcasters and studios put whole films on their own channels, and seventeen of them are among the best documentaries on YouTube.

Plex has free films, shows and live channels, paid for by adverts, and you can watch without signing up. The page for its free library opens from Nigeria, and Plex’s support pages say people in almost every country can use it.

Tubi and Pluto TV are free with adverts too, but only in the countries they serve. Tubi belongs to Fox, and its corporate site lists the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, the United Kingdom and Australia. Pluto TV has live channels and films on demand. Both sites tell Nigerian visitors they are not available.

Paid services that do not reach Nigeria

Disney+ tells Nigerian visitors it is not available in the region, and Hulu’s own address leads straight to that same page. Hulu describes itself as a service for the United States. Disney’s press site says bundle subscribers in the United States watch Hulu inside the Disney+ app, and that outside the US Hulu is a brand within Disney+. Subscribers elsewhere can read how to download Disney+ films and shows to watch offline.

HBO’s streaming service is now HBO Max, and the HBO Now address no longer exists. Its help pages list the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, much of Europe including the United Kingdom, and Asia Pacific. No African country is on the list, and neither is India. The US prices on its site are $10.99 a month for Basic With Ads, $18.49 for Standard and $22.99 for Premium. The same page sells a US-only bundle of Disney+, Hulu and HBO Max from $21.99 a month.

Paramount+, where the old CBS All Access address now leads, shows Nigerian visitors a page saying the service is coming soon, with a box for your email and no date. Peacock is NBCUniversal’s service, and its site says your device must be in the United States. JioHotstar is Hotstar’s new name, built for India with live cricket, Bollywood and regional films, and its site tells visitors from Nigeria it is not available here.

Old streaming names and where they went

• Vudu and FandangoNow: both addresses now lead to Fandango at Home, which is not available in Nigeria.
• FilmStruck: the address redirects to Turner Classic Movies.
• iflix: the site now carries the WeTV name.
• HOOQ, Sony Crackle and Box TV: their sites no longer load.
• SnagFilms: the old address now belongs to a gambling site that has nothing to do with films. Do not go looking for it.
• iTunes Movie Store: Apple rents and sells films in the Apple TV app now.
• Popcornflix: still online with free films, and its site links to a company called Future Today.
• Acorn TV: still running, with mysteries and dramas at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year on its sign-up page.
• Stan: still running in Australia, with plans from $9.99 to $23.99 a month on its Australian site.