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Two-years-old Plex Cloud Service will shut down in November
July 29, 2025
If you use thePlex Cloudservice to store your totally legal, absolutely 100 percent legitimate media files, we unfortunately have some bad news: Plex will discontinue Plex Cloud starting on June 16, 2025.
The company sent a message to its users today informing them of the termination of Plex Cloud. The message includes the reasoning behind the change, which stems mostly from figuring out cost-effective ways to run the service at the caliberPlexusers expect from the company.
A partial excerpt from the message is below:
Using Plex Cloud, customers could stream media from anywhere without having to own an always-on computer or NAS to host their media files. Instead, they could upload their media to their cloud service of choice — such asGoogle DriveorDropbox— and then stream the files via Plex Cloud from anywhere.
While this sounds fairly simple, Plex has its own servers that transcode the media from the cloud servers hosted by the other providers, and this is likely where the cost problems come into play.
Plex Cloudlaunched in beta at the end of 2016and then becamea stable service in early 2017. It seems that Plex gave the service a fair shot, but is pulling the plug to not get buried too deep trying to make the service work.
Those of you who use Plex for streaming content from a dedicated machine that you own won’t see any service disruptions or changes from the removal of Plex Cloud. However, the removal of the service might make it tough for people who don’t or can’t own a dedicated machine to start using Plex.
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