Family plans in Singapore, priced per seat

Every provider advertises a family plan the same way: one price, several people, a per-person figure in small type. The small type is the one that decides whether the plan is worth it, and it is computed on an assumption almost nobody meets.

The arithmetic, and the catch inside it

Per-seat price is the plan divided by the seats it holds. Spotify Premium Family was S$20.98 a month for up to 6 accounts on 22 September 2026, so a seat is S$3.50 — which is the figure the marketing quotes.

The catch: that assumes all six seats are occupied. Three people on a six-seat plan pay S$7 each for what is advertised at S$3.50. The advertised per-person price is not a price, it is a best case.

Divide by the people actually on the plan, not by the number of seats it holds. That one habit tells you more than any comparison table.

Three numbers before you split anything

1. The plan price, from the provider's own page, today. Prices move and every aggregator lags.
2. The number of seats it holds, from the same page.
3. The number of people who will actually be on it — including you.

Divide the first by the third. That is your real per-seat cost. If it is close to the individual plan's price, the family plan is doing nothing for you except adding an administrator.

Why no table of every plan here

Because it would be wrong within weeks, and a stale price table is worse than none — somebody budgets from it. Prices move, plans are renamed, seat counts change. What does not change is the arithmetic.

beemate keeps the current figures in one place instead: each service in the catalogue carries its plan price and seat count, and each hive shows the seat price derived from them rather than a price somebody typed in.

What a seat costs on beemate

The seat price, plus a service fee of 25% of it capped at S$2. On a S$3.50 seat that is S$0.88; on a S$12 seat the cap has already bitten and it is S$2. The fees page shows both sides worked through.

And before any of it

Check that the provider permits the arrangement. The per-seat maths on a plan whose terms require one household is arithmetic about something you should not do — which subscriptions can you share says which are which.