Paramount+ in the US carries every UFC numbered event and every Fight Night, live, with nothing sold as pay-per-view, and it starts at $8.99 a month. It only sells inside the United States. StreamLocator gets you there.
This guide covers what Paramount+ costs after the early 2026 price rise, what the UFC deal actually means for anyone used to paying per event, and how to subscribe from outside the US.
There is no location to pick. Paramount+ streams from the United States and that is the only place StreamLocator routes it, so there is nothing for you to configure.
Essential, which carries ads, is $8.99 a month or $89.99 for the year, about $7.50 a month. Premium is $13.99 a month or $139.99 for the year. Both tiers went up by around a dollar a month in early 2026, so any guide still quoting six-dollar Paramount+ is several years out of date.
Premium removes the ads from on-demand viewing, adds the full Showtime catalogue and unlocks 4K on the titles that support it. Live sport still carries advertising on both tiers, because the ads in a live broadcast are the broadcast.
For most people arriving here for the fighting, Essential is the right answer. The ads do not follow you into a live card.
This is the part worth reading carefully, because it changed the economics of watching the UFC and a lot of guides have not caught up.
From January 2026, Paramount+ holds the UFC in the United States on a seven-year exclusive. That covers all 12 numbered events and all 30 Fight Nights, live, with a handful of events also going out on CBS. Every one of them is included in the subscription.
There is no pay-per-view. Not a reduced price, not a discount for subscribers. The US pay-per-view model for the UFC was abolished when this deal started.
To put a number on what that means: a numbered event used to cost $79.99 on its own. A full year of Paramount+ Essential is $89.99. Two of the old events cost more than a year of everything.
Outside the United States the old model is alive and well. In the UK, TNT Sports carries selected Fight Nights, and every numbered event is still sold as a pay-per-view on top of the subscription you are already paying for. That gap is the reason this page exists.
The UFC is the headline, but the US service is a broad one. It has the Champions League, the CBS catalogue including the network’s live output, and Showtime’s drama library on the Premium tier.
It is worth knowing that the American Paramount+ is not the same product sold under the same name elsewhere. The US version carries sport that the international versions simply do not have, which is why subscribing to Paramount+ in your own country will not get you the UFC.
Paramount+ can see roughly where in the world you are connecting from, and it saves the American service for American viewers. From anywhere else you get either your own country’s version, with a different catalogue and no UFC, or nothing at all.
StreamLocator gives you a US connection of the kind an American household would have. That is what Paramount+ expects its customers to be using, so it plays normally.
This is also why an ordinary VPN often stops working. Most of them route thousands of people through the same small pool of company servers, and when a streaming service notices hundreds of accounts arriving from one office computer somewhere, it closes the door on all of them at once. StreamLocator does not put you in that queue.
Setting it up on the router takes five minutes longer and covers every device in the house at once, including the ones that will not run an app. If more than one person watches, do it that way.
A US payment method is the direct route. If you do not have one, there are two others that work.
Buy inside the Paramount+ app using a US Apple ID topped up with Apple gift cards. Or buy a Paramount+ gift card and redeem it against a new subscription. Both are ordinary retail purchases and neither needs an American bank.
Whichever you use, have StreamLocator running before you open the sign-up page, so Paramount+ sees a US connection while you register rather than partway through.
Paramount+ and StreamLocator are two separate subscriptions. Paramount charges you for the fights and the films, StreamLocator charges you for the access that reaches them, and the same StreamLocator subscription works with every other service on this site.
Each route on its own cheapest committed plan.
If your interest is football rather than fighting, TOD via Jordan carries the Champions League alongside every Premier League match, and works out cheaper again.
For years, following the UFC properly meant budgeting for it: eighty dollars an event, twelve times a year, before you counted the Fight Nights. That model is finished in the United States and still running everywhere else.
Start your free 7-day trial and watch the next card for the price of a subscription.
Yes. Paramount+ serves its American service only to US connections, so on its own it will not work abroad. With StreamLocator running, Paramount+ sees a US connection and the service plays as it does at home.
Essential is $8.99 a month or $89.99 a year. Premium is $13.99 a month or $139.99 a year. Both rose by about a dollar a month in early 2026.
No. Every numbered event and every Fight Night is included in the subscription. The US pay-per-view model for the UFC ended in January 2026, when Paramount+ took the rights on a seven-year exclusive deal.
No. They are two separate subscriptions. Paramount charges you for Paramount+, and StreamLocator charges you for the access that lets you reach it. The same StreamLocator subscription works with other streaming services too.
Yes. Buy the subscription inside the app on a US Apple ID topped up with Apple gift cards, or redeem a Paramount+ gift card. Neither needs an American bank account.
Almost certainly not. The UFC rights Paramount+ holds are American, and the international versions of the service carry a different sports line-up. Reaching the US service is the point of this guide.
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