When it comes to cost and subscription plans, Spotify offers a free subscription plan as well as a premium subscription pan. The free plan offers access to the entire music library. However, ads make it quite annoying. In this plan, audio quality is as high as 160kbps only. If you wish to skip a track, you can do six times an hour only.
The premium subscription plan of Spotify comes at $10 per month. With the premium plan, the audio quality jumps to 320kbps, and you enjoy ad-free music streaming. Also, you can skip unlimited times and can even listen to music offline.
Spotify has a Student Subscription plan at $5 per month. It also offers a Family Subscription plan at $15 per month with which 6 users (living at the same place) can access the music library. It further offers parental control.
As far as subscription plans of Tidal are concerned, it does not offer any free plan. There’s only a 30-day free trial. Its common subscription plans include Tidal Premium, Tidal HiFi, Premium Student, and Premium Family.
Like Spotify, Tidal Premium costs $10 a month with 320kbps streaming speed, and Premium Student costs $5 per month.
Tidal HiFi subscribers at $20 a month and offers access to a wide range of hi-res (24 bit/96 kHz) music tracks, known as Tidal Masters. Family Premium comes at $15 a month but offers access to five users only.
The Winner: Spotify