CNN All Access Canada Price Is CA$7.99. Americans Pay About 23% More

CNN’s All Access subscription went on sale in Canada and the UK on Oct. 20, and the Canadian price is the lowest of the three markets where it is sold. CNN’s announcement sets it at CA$7.99 a month or CA$79.99 a year, with a CA$59.99 first-year “welcome” price. Americans pay US$6.99 a month or US$69.99 a year, and the annual plan renews “plus applicable tax.” Converted at the Bank of Canada’s Oct. 19 rate, that US price works out to CA$9.85 a month, about 23% more than Canadians pay. Canadians with an eligible pay-TV subscription can get the video side for nothing.

We built the comparison below from CNN’s own pricing pages and the Bank of Canada exchange rates for Oct. 19, 2026: US$1 = CA$1.4097 and £1 = CA$1.8767.

CNN All Access Canada price vs the US and UK

Read across the annual column and the ranking holds: the US plan costs about 23% more than Canada’s, and the UK plan about 17% more. Flip it into American money and a Canadian annual subscription is about US$56.74, against US$69.99 at home.

Britain sits in between. At £4.99 a month, a British subscriber pays about US$6.64, a few cents under the American sticker price, and the £37.99 first-year deal is about US$50.58.

Two caveats before anyone books a VPN. First, tax. CNN’s US page says plans renew at full price “plus applicable tax.” Neither the press release nor the launch coverage we read says whether the Canadian or British prices include sales tax or VAT, so the real gap could be narrower or wider depending on where you live. Second, the first-year deals. The US page we loaded still advertised a US$41.99 first-year annual price, but it carried an end date of April 6, 2026 and is marked “US only.” We treat it as expired and left it out of the math. For what it’s worth, Canada’s CA$59.99 welcome price is about US$42.56, within a dollar of that old American promotion.

What Canadians and Britons get for the money

The package matches the American one in outline. CNN says international subscribers get live channels from its international and US networks, exclusive on-demand video, the CNN Original Series and CNN Films library, and unlimited text, audio and video on CNN.com and the CNN app, including subscriber-only reporting. It runs on the web and “select” mobile and connected-TV apps. CNN doesn’t say which channels, and the US page warns that All Access video “may vary from CNN TV.”

What’s missing is a cheap tier. In the US, CNN sells a Basic plan at US$3.99 a month or US$29.99 a year that is “articles only.” The Oct. 13 announcement for Canada and the UK lists All Access and nothing else. A Canadian who only wants to get past the CNN.com paywall has no smaller option, at least at launch.

CNN’s chief operating officer, Alex MacCallum, called the brand’s reputation “unparalleled around the globe” and said expanding to the UK and Canada first “has been our top international expansion priority,” as quoted by Broadcast Dialogue. The trade site also notes the timing: ahead of the US midterm elections, and with more international markets planned over the next year.

Who gets CNN All Access free in Canada

Here is the clause that may matter most to Canadian households. Per CNN, “eligible Pay TV subscribers” in Canada can sign in with their TV provider credentials and get the video offering at no additional cost. CNN doesn’t name the eligible providers in its release, and none of the coverage we read did either. If you already get CNN in a cable or satellite package, check your provider’s login list on CNN’s site before paying.

Note the wording: the free login covers the video. CNN doesn’t say whether it also unlocks subscriber-only articles. In the US, the same TV-provider login is pitched as a way to “watch all of CNN’s video content now.”

In Britain the handover is automatic. Existing CNN Live subscribers are being upgraded to All Access, according to the announcement.

Our read on why Canada lands cheapest: CNN is pricing for cord-cutters in a market where many existing viewers can already get the video through a TV login, so the customers left to win are people who don’t pay for cable. That is a guess about strategy, not something CNN has said. The cheaper number is a fact.

What to do before you subscribe

• Pay TV in Canada? Try the TV-provider sign-in first. You may already have the video for free.
• Planning to stay a year? The CA$59.99 first-year price beats 12 monthly payments of CA$7.99 (CA$95.88). The regular annual price, CA$79.99, is still cheaper than paying monthly.
• Only want articles? There is no Basic plan listed for Canada. You pay for streaming whether you use it or not.
• Watch the tax line at checkout. CNN hasn’t published whether its Canadian price includes GST/HST.

Streaming prices rarely move in the customer’s favor; we tracked the latest example in Discovery Plus’s US and Canada price increase, and the rest of our consumer apps coverage follows the same pattern. Canadian phone bills went the same way in Bell, Virgin and Public Mobile’s plan changes.

CNN launched All Access in the US on Oct. 28, 2025, at US$69.99 a year. It took almost exactly a year to cross the border, and on the way north the annual price dropped by roughly CA$18.67.