
Likewise, an individual Spotify subscription or "Premium" plan costs $9.99 per month, with some regional variations.

Subscriptions and Price Plans SimilarĪn individual Apple Music subscription costs $9.99 per month in the United States, with slight price variations in other countries and territories. So which is the best option for you? Keep reading as we pit the two services against each other. Spotify essentially created the market as it exists today and has millions more users globally than any other service, but Apple Music is catching up, thanks to its deep integration in Apple's popular iOS ecosystem.īoth Spotify and Apple Music offer as much music and related content as your ears could handle – including exclusive new releases from top artists – and all of it can be streamed ad-free (with Spotify's paid tier) or downloaded for offline play. This technology simulates a surround sound speaker setup using headphones or regular stereo speakers.Apple Music and Spotify are the biggest players in the music streaming space - and for good reason. It's also likely to be limited to wired speakers and headphones.Īnother feature that lifts Apple Music a step above Spotify is that it offers Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio. Spotify has promised a similar HiFi option, but we're still waiting to hear when it will come out. The downside to Lossless audio is that it only works with wired speakers or headphones. But to take audio quality a step further, Apple also offers Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless audio that streams music at up to 24-bit/192kHz. In contrast, Apple Music streams at 256kbps at standard, but can drop down to 64kbps to save data if you enable the High Efficiency setting. Spotify lets you choose between 24kbps, 96kbps, 160kbps, and 320kbps.

Both services offer a range of audio quality settings, to help you find the right balance between high-fidelity audio and streaming data charges.
