A Filmxora feature
Streamonomics: what each hour of streaming really costs you
Streamonomics is the Filmxora feature that works out what each hour of streaming costs you: it divides what you pay each month for a service (Netflix, Disney+, Max, Prime Video…) by the hours you watched on it that month, based on what you logged in Filmxora. With that cost per hour it tells you whether you are getting your money’s worth or should pause it.
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The formula
Cost per hour = the service’s monthly price ÷ hours watched on it that month.
Hours come from what you log as watched in Filmxora with that service as the source: the runtime of every movie and episode (from TMDB) is added up per month. For shows, the service you set for the show applies to all its episodes. Hours are rounded to the nearest hour.
The price is the one you enter, in your currency. If a service raises its price, you save the new one from that month on and earlier months keep the old price.
An example
Hypothetical example: if you pay US$15 a month for a service and logged 6 hours on it that month, each hour cost you US$2.50. That is between US$1 and US$3, so the verdict is “Acceptable”. With 20 hours, an hour would cost US$0.75: “Great value!”.
How the verdict is decided
Each currency has three cost-per-hour thresholds. They are the same ones the app uses:
| Currency | “Great value!” up to | “Acceptable” up to | “Expensive” up to | “Cancel it!” |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COP | 3,000 | 8,000 | 15,000 | over 15,000 |
| MXN | 15 | 40 | 80 | over 80 |
| ARS | 500 | 1,500 | 3,000 | over 3,000 |
| CLP | 800 | 2,500 | 5,000 | over 5,000 |
| PEN | 3 | 8 | 15 | over 15 |
| BRL | 5 | 15 | 30 | over 30 |
| USD | 1 | 3 | 5 | over 5 |
| EUR | 1 | 3 | 5 | over 5 |
Special cases
- If in a past (or the current) month you logged no hours on a service you pay for, the verdict is “You didn’t use it! Cancel it”.
- You can pause a service for specific months: those months do not count towards your spending.
- Cinema is separate: you add each ticket price and it counts towards your monthly total, with no cost per hour.
- The overall monthly average is your total spending (cinema included) divided by the hours logged across all your services.
- If you import your Netflix history, everything imported is tagged with Netflix and counts for Streamonomics automatically.
Work it out now
Why we do not publish a ranking of services
Streamonomics calculates with your own data and only shows it to you. We do not yet publish an index with the average cost per hour of each service by country because, for the figure to be reliable, every service-and-country combination needs a minimum sample of users with subscriptions and logged hours, and we would rather not publish numbers based on small samples.
Frequently asked questions
How is the cost per hour calculated in Streamonomics?
Is Streamonomics free?
What counts as an hour watched?
When does it tell me to cancel a service?
Is my Streamonomics data public?
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Written by the Filmxora team. Filmxora · [email protected]