Spotify Free VS Premium Comparison

As a popular streaming music service, Spotify offers 4 subscription plans: Free($0/month), Premium($11.99/month), Duo ($16.99/month), and Family($19.99/month) . Spotify also has a Student plan at $5.99/month with the same offering as the Premium but only for qualified students.

This article will show you the differences between Spotify Free and Premium plans. Then you can make an informed decision on whether you need to upgrade to Spotify Premium.

Spotify Free

With Spotify Free, you can listen to your favorite artists, discover new music or create playlists without paying anything, but you will hear ads between tracks and you can’t save tracks for offline listening. And on mobiles devices, you can only choose SHUFFLE PLAY, which means you can’t stream specific songs on demand. Besides, sometimes you'll hear a mix of similar tracks from other artists to what you're playing.

Spotify Premium

With a Premium account, you won’t get ads or any limitations, no matter what device you’re using. You can also access special features such as high quality sound, offline listening, and Spotify Connect.

With Duo or Family plan, you can have 2 or up to 6 premium accounts from the same household. Each member gets their own personalized account, all at a discounted price.

Free vs Premium: side-by-side comparison

	Free	Premium	Duo	Family
Access to over 100 million songs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access to podcasts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Travel abroad with your music	Up to 14 days	Yes	Yes	Yes
On demand mobile access	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes
No ad interruption	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes
Listen offline	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes
Premium accounts	N/A	1	2	6
Audio quality	Up to 160kbps	Up to 320kbps	Up to 320kbps	Up to 320kbps

How to Download Spotify Songs with Any Plan

Spotify Free plan doesn't support the offline listening feature. Although you can download playlists or albums with Spotify Premium plans, you can't play them anywhere you want since they are DRM protected. The songs can only be played within Spotify app.

Is there any way to remove the limitation, and download Spofity songs with Spotify Free or to DRM free format? The answer is yes. With Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter , you can easily download Spotify music as DRM-free MP3 , M4A, WAV or FLAC with a Free or Premium account. Here we will show you how.

1. Run Ondesoft Spotify Converter

Download, install and run Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter on your Mac/Windows.

2. Select Spotify songs, albums or playlists or copy link.

Browse songs, albums or playlists you want to download from the built-in Spotify web player. Click the Add to list button to load all songs in the album or playlist, uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any.

3. Choose output format

The default output format is MP3. Ondesoft Spotify Converter also supports M4A, WAV, FLAC. Click Option button to change output format or output folder if you need. You can also change bitrate, samplerate according to your needs.