The prices went up in September. The account stays British whatever you do. And anything live on Netflix needs a TV Licence and, in Netflix’s own words, does not work over a VPN at all.
Netflix UK costs £7.99, £13.99 or £20.99 a month since 4 September 2026, and Netflix will not change the country on an account “unless you move to a new one”. A residential U.S. IP address changes where Netflix thinks the device is, which is how Netflix picks a catalogue — and if Netflix decides the connection is a VPN it shows the worldwide subset instead, which it says openly. Two things are off the table on any connection Netflix treats that way: live events and the ad-supported plan. And live programmes on Netflix need a TV Licence in the UK anyway.
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The cheapest plan went up by a third this month. Here is the table as it stands, next to the American one nobody in Britain can buy.
Netflix raised its UK prices on 4 September 2026. Standard with ads rose by two pounds, Standard by one and Premium by two, and the extra-member slots moved with them.
Monthly prices: the UK since 4 September 2026, the United States since 27 March 2026 — read on 28 September 2026
| Plan | UK | United States | What Netflix lists |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard with ads | £7.99 | US$8.99 | With adverts |
| Standard | £13.99 | US$19.99 | No adverts |
| Premium | £20.99 | US$26.99 | 4K, no adverts |
| Extra member, with ads | £5.99 | US$7.99 | One person outside the household |
| Extra member, no ads | £6.99 | US$9.99 | One person outside the household |
“New customers will see the change immediately, while the timing for existing customers will depend upon your billing date (usually following 30 days’ after notification).” — ISPreview, 4 September 2026
So an existing subscriber may still be paying the old amount for a billing cycle or two; the table above is what everyone is moving to.
The American column is a comparison, not an option. Netflix bills the country of the account, in that country’s currency, and it will not change the country without a move. A residential U.S. IP address does nothing to the bill: the plan, the price, the streams and the resolution belong to the account, not to the connection, and they stay exactly where they are.
On Standard with ads, stop and read this. Netflix states that the ad-supported experience is not supported on a connection it treats as a VPN. At £7.99 it is the plan most people searching this question are on, and it is the plan a network address helps least. Nobody should sell you an address for it, and this page does not.
If a page you are reading shows lower numbers — a pound less on Standard, two less on Premium — it was written before September and has not been updated.
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Netflix now carries live programmes and events, and in the UK that brings in a rule from outside Netflix altogether.
TV Licensing’s own answer to the question is two sentences, and both matter:
“If you are watching a TV programme that is being broadcast live on Netflix, you need to be covered by a TV Licence.” — TV Licensing — Do I need a TV Licence to watch Netflix?
“You don’t need a TV Licence to watch on demand programmes on Netflix.” — TV Licensing — the same answer
So the line runs between live and on demand, not between Netflix and the BBC. A series or a film from the library needs no licence. A live event on Netflix — sport, a special, anything broadcast as it happens — does, on any device, in any room.
Now put that next to what Netflix itself says about live over a connection it treats as a VPN:
“VPNs aren’t supported for watching Live events on Netflix or if you’re on an ad-supported experience.” — Netflix Help — Watching TV shows and movies through a VPN
Read together, those two sentences settle the live question for a British reader twice over. A residential U.S. IP address is not a way to watch an American live event on Netflix — Netflix has said live is not supported on any connection it treats as a VPN — and a live programme on Netflix UK needs a licence whatever the connection. This page therefore makes no claim about live at all. The catalogue, which is on demand, is the only layer left, and it is the layer the rest of this page is about.
The UK layers, from TV Licensing and Netflix’s own pages
| What you want on Netflix | TV Licence? | What Netflix says about a VPN |
|---|---|---|
| A series or film from the library | No — on demand | Shows the catalogue for where it thinks you are; worldwide subset or E106 if it treats the connection as a VPN |
| A live event, sport or special | Yes — broadcast live | Not supported, in Netflix’s words |
| Anything on the ad-supported plan | As above, by programme type | Not supported, in Netflix’s words |
| A download on a phone or tablet | No — on demand | Downloads made at home may not be available in another country |
One more British fact for the record: TV Licensing’s rule is about being covered by a licence, which is a fact about the address you watch from, and no connection changes it either. This page is not legal advice; it is the two sentences above, linked, so you can read them yourself.
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Netflix publishes its own rules about location, in plain words. This is what it says, and it is the honest ceiling of everything else on this page.
Start with the sentence that explains why the same account shows different things in different places:
“Netflix is available in over 190 countries around the world. Each country has its own catalog of original and licensed TV shows and movies.” — Netflix Help — Changing the country of your account
That is the entire reason a residential US IP address is interesting for Netflix. Not because it gets you an account — you have one — but because Netflix chooses which of those catalogues to show from where it thinks the device is. The account itself does not move, and Netflix could not be clearer about that:
“The country on your account can’t be changed unless you move to a new one.” — Netflix Help — Changing the country of your account
So the country of the account, the currency and the price stay exactly what they are. Nothing on this page changes them, and nothing on this page claims to.
Now the part most guides leave out. Netflix also publishes what it does when it decides a connection is a VPN or proxy — and it is not a block:
“Using a VPN to access Netflix will hide your region and only allow you to see TV shows and movies available to all regions globally.” — Netflix Help — Changing the country of your account
“With a VPN, you may only be shown TV shows and movies Netflix has worldwide licensing for, like Squid Games or Stranger Things.” — Netflix Help — Watching TV shows and movies through a VPN
Read that twice. When Netflix treats a connection as a VPN, it shows the shared worldwide subset — the titles it licenses everywhere — or it shows the message a lot of people abroad will recognise:
“You seem to be using a VPN or proxy. Please turn off any of these services and try again.” — Netflix Help — error code E106
And two things Netflix rules out on any connection it treats that way, in one sentence:
“VPNs aren’t supported for watching Live events on Netflix or if you’re on an ad-supported experience.” — Netflix Help — Watching TV shows and movies through a VPN
That sentence draws the line this page keeps to. Live events and the ad-supported plans are outside what any network address can help with, so they are not offered as outcomes here. What a residential US IP address is, is an ordinary household connection rather than a hosting-company range — the kind of address Netflix’s own instructions assume you are on. Whether Netflix treats a particular connection as a VPN is Netflix’s decision, made by Netflix’s systems, and nothing on this page is a guarantee about that decision.
Netflix even tells you how to see the country it has assigned to you. Open fast.com, wait for the test to stop, click “Show more info”, and then:
“Note the country next to where it says Client.” — Netflix Help — Netflix thinks I’m in a different country
“If the country doesn’t match your location, your device or network likely has a VPN turned on.” — Netflix Help — the same article
That is the test this whole page is built around. The country next to “Client” is the only opinion that matters, and it is Netflix’s own.
Separately from the catalogue, there is the household check, and it is about where the account lives rather than about where a device is today:
“A Netflix Household is a collection of devices connected to the internet at the main place where you watch Netflix.” — Netflix Help — What is a Netflix Household?
Netflix says it works that out from “IP address, device IDs, and account activity” and that it does “not collect GPS data”. Travelling is allowed — Netflix says you can “watch on your mobile devices and computers – or sign into a new TV, like at a hotel or a holiday rental”. For a second home or a place you visit often, the instruction is about home, not the second place: “From the main place you watch Netflix, connect to the internet, open the Netflix app from a mobile device or go to Netflix.com from a computer once a month, and stream a TV show or movie for a few seconds to establish a connection.” And it warns that the selection changes with the country: “Choices for streaming and downloading (including audio/subtitle options) vary by country.”
A television that is not part of the household gets a choice on screen — I’m Traveling, with a temporary code that is valid for 15 minutes, or Update Netflix Household. None of that is changed by an IP address, and this page does not say it is.
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One layer of the stack, described plainly, with the other layers left where they are.
USip sells the network part and nothing else. Every Netflix rule above still applies in full.
Two British cases fall straight out of that list. Live: closed, twice over — Netflix has ruled it out on any connection it treats as a VPN, and TV Licensing wants a licence for it regardless. The library: open to the test, because a title that exists on Netflix but not in the UK catalogue is a question about where Netflix thinks the device is, and that is the one input a residential U.S. IP address supplies.
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Each one is quick, and each one can save an evening of blaming the wrong layer.
If it is live — sport, a special, anything broadcast as it happens — a TV Licence is needed and Netflix says live is not supported over a VPN. No address changes either fact. Everything below is about the on-demand library only.
Plenty of what gets assumed to be American-only is in the British library under a different thumbnail, because Netflix licenses country by country. If the search finds it, you are done and this page owes you nothing.
Standard with ads is £7.99 and, in Netflix’s words, not supported over a VPN — so on that plan, stop here. Standard and Premium are £13.99 and £20.99, and only Premium is 4K; a film that will not go above HD on Standard is the plan talking, not the country.
Open fast.com on the device you will use, click “Show more info” and note the country next to Client. Connect the residential U.S. address and repeat. If it now says United States, Netflix’s own test agrees with the connection; if it still names your own country, nothing on Netflix will change and the network layer is the thing to fix first.
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Four recordings, one per device, made in September 2021. Start on a computer, where the fast.com result and any Netflix message are both visible, and move to the television last.
Connect first, then run the fast.com check before opening Netflix. A private window keeps the last session’s country cookie out of the test.
Use a private Safari window or a current Chromium browser. If Private Relay is on, turn it off for the test — it changes the address Netflix sees.
Get the clean browser result first. Netflix says phones can be used as usual while you travel; if the app asks about the household, that is an account question, not a network one.
Confirm the address and browser playback before a television. A TV is where the household check lives, and that check is not a network question.
What these recordings are good for, and what they are not. All four were recorded in September 2021, so they show the connection sequence on each device accurately — the OpenVPN Connect app they use is still the app the setup guides install — and they show Netflix as it looked five years ago. Since then Netflix has added the ad-supported plans, the household rules and the temporary travel codes, and changed its prices in every country on this site. Follow the videos for the network setup; take everything about plans, prices, accounts and household prompts from Netflix’s own current pages, which are linked above and below.
One British note on the recordings. They predate live events on Netflix, the ad-supported plan and this month’s prices, so nothing in them contradicts the sections above; they simply do not know about them.
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A residential U.S. IP address, billed in euros, cancellable at any time. It is the network layer only. Your Netflix plan stays your Netflix plan, billed by Netflix in your own currency — no plan on this page includes Netflix, changes it, or guarantees what Netflix will show.
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No, and Netflix says so directly: the country on an account “can’t be changed unless you move to a new one”. If you do move, Netflix’s route is to cancel, wait for the membership to end, and sign up again in the new country — and until then you keep paying the plan price in the currency you signed up in. A network address does none of that, and this page does not suggest it does.
It changes where Netflix thinks the device is, which is the input Netflix uses to choose a catalogue — each country has its own, in Netflix’s words. What it cannot do is decide for Netflix. If Netflix treats the connection as a VPN or proxy it shows the worldwide-licensed subset or error E106, and Netflix publishes that behaviour openly. A residential U.S. address is an ordinary household address rather than a data-centre range; whether Netflix accepts a given connection is Netflix’s decision. The 3-day trial exists so you can find out on your own devices rather than take anyone’s word for it.
It is Netflix’s message “You seem to be using a VPN or proxy. Please turn off any of these services and try again.” Netflix’s own troubleshooting starts with fast.com: run the test, click Show more info, and read the country next to Client. If that country is not the one you expect, the connection is what to look at — not the account.
Netflix says no, in one sentence: “VPNs aren’t supported for watching Live events on Netflix or if you’re on an ad-supported experience.” This page treats that as final. If you are on a plan with ads, or what you want is a live event, a network address is not the answer and nobody should sell you one for that.
Yes, and without any of this. Netflix says you can “watch on your mobile devices and computers – or sign into a new TV, like at a hotel or a holiday rental”. The selection you see follows the country you are in, maturity ratings are shown for that country, and some downloads may not be available there. For a second home or a place you visit often, Netflix’s instruction is about home: once a month, from the main place you watch, connect a phone or computer and stream something for a few seconds.
Because a Netflix Household is “a collection of devices connected to the internet at the main place where you watch Netflix”, worked out from IP address, device IDs and account activity. A television that never connects from that place can be asked to confirm. The options on screen are I’m Traveling, which issues a temporary code valid for 15 minutes, and Update Netflix Household. An IP address answers neither prompt; only the account owner can, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
No. Netflix bills the country of the account, in that country’s currency, and the country cannot be changed without moving. The U.S. column on this page exists so the comparison people search for is answered honestly, not because it is something you can buy from the UK.
£7.99 for Standard with ads, £13.99 for Standard and £20.99 for Premium a month, since 4 September 2026. Extra members are £5.99 with ads and £6.99 without. Pages showing lower prices were written before the rise.
For on-demand programmes, no — TV Licensing says so in as many words. For anything broadcast live on Netflix, yes: “If you are watching a TV programme that is being broadcast live on Netflix, you need to be covered by a TV Licence.” The line is live versus on demand, not Netflix versus the BBC.
No, and this page will not suggest it. Netflix states that live events are not supported on a connection it treats as a VPN, and a live programme on Netflix in the UK needs a TV Licence regardless. Live is outside what any network address does.
It is sold at £7.99 a month, and no: Netflix says the ad-supported experience is not supported on a connection it treats as a VPN. If you are on Standard with ads, a network address is the wrong purchase.
This page does not know Netflix’s reasons and will not invent them. What is on record is the table: ISPreview, Broadband TV News and Deadline all reported the new prices between 4 and 7 September 2026, with new customers paying them at once and existing customers from their next billing date after notice. What matters for this page is narrower: the price is attached to the British account, and no address moves it.
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Prices, plans and rules all move. Every factual claim on this page links to the page it came from.
Netflix is a third-party service and is not affiliated with USip. Netflix controls which catalogue it shows, how it treats a connection, its plans, prices and household rules, and all content rights — and all of them change.
Before you change anything, find out what Netflix thinks. Connect the residential U.S. address on a computer, open fast.com in a private window, click Show more info and read the country next to Client. Then open Netflix in that same window and play one ordinary title. If the country says United States and the title plays, the network layer is settled and anything still missing is a licence, a plan or a household question. If the country says something else, nothing above it was ever going to work — and you have found that out in two minutes, for free.