Plans and Pricing
With a Philo subscription, you’ll get 58 channels for $20 per month.
Sling Blue costs $25 after a discounted first month.
Channel and Price Comparison
With Philo, you’ll pay $20 for 54 channels, bringing the cost per channel to 37 cents.
Sling Blue, as a base package, has 47 channels for $25, making the cost 53 cents per channel.
Channel Lineups
While these two services are skinny bundles, both have a solid lineup of channels, including news, entertainment, and sports.
With a Philo subscription, you’ll get the following channels.
- A&E
- AMC
- American Heroes
- Animal Planet
- Aspire
- AXS TV
- BBC America
- BBC World News
- BET
- BET Her
- Cheddar Business
- Cheddar News
- CLEO TV
- CMT
- Comedy Central
- Cooking Channel
- Destination America
- Discovery
- Discovery Family
- Discovery Life
- DIY
- Food Network
- FYI
- Game Show Network
- Hallmark Channel
- Hallmark Drama
- Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
- HGTV
- History
- IFC
- Investigation Discovery
- Law & Crime
- Lifetime
- Lifetime Movies
- Logo
- Motor Trend
- MTV
- MTV Classic
- MTV Live
- MTV 2
- Nick Jr.
- Nickelodeon
- Nick Toons
- OWN
- Paramount
- People TV
- Revolt
- SCI
- Sundance TV
- Tastemade
- Teen Nick
- TLC
- Travel Channel
- TV Land
- UP TV
- VH1
- Viceland
- WE TV
With Sling Blue, these are the channels you’ll get:
- A&E
- AMC
- AXS TV
- BBC America
- BET
- Bloomberg Television
- Bravo
- Cartoon Network
- Cheddar Business
- Cheddar News
- CNN
- Comedy Central
- Comet
- Discovery
- E!
- Epix Drive-In
- Food Network
- Fox (Select Markets)
- FS1
- FS2
- Fuse
- FX
- FXX
- HGTV
- History Channel
- IFC
- Investigation Discovery
- Lifetime
- Local Now
- National Geographic
- Nat Geo Wild
- NBC (Select Markets)
- NBC Sports (Select Markets)
- NBC SN
- Newsy
- NFL Network
- Nick Jr.
- Paramount
- Stadium
- SyFy
- TBS
- TNT
- TLC
- Travel Channel
- Tru TV
- USA
- Viceland
Simultaneous Viewing
With Philo, you can watch on up to 3 devices at the same time.
With Sling Blue, you can watch on 3 devices simultaneously.
Cloud DVR
Philo offers unlimited recording to save as many shows as you want.
To use Cloud DVR with Sling Blue, you’ll need to add the Cloud DVR add-on for an additional $5/month.
Are you using either of these affordable streaming services? Let us know in the comments!
Did you know we have a YouTube Channel? Every week we have a live Cord Cutting Q&A, and weekly Cord Cutting recap shows exclusively on our YouTube Channel!
Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter for more news, tips, and reviews. Need cord cutting tech support? Join our Cord Cutting Tech Support Facebook Group for help.
Compare Philo and Sling TV here.