Apple Arcade costs $6.99 a month in the United States, with a one-month free trial for new subscribers. Apple published that price, alongside three Apple One bundle tiers, on a newsroom page dated September 8, 2026, a Tuesday.
The confirmation arrived the day before Apple’s September 9 keynote, inside a post about new Arcade games rather than a pricing announcement, which is likely why it has drawn little attention. It is the most recent primary figure Apple has published for either Arcade or Apple One, and it is worth setting out plainly.
What Apple Arcade costs on its own
Apple Arcade is a standalone subscription, separate from the price of any device it runs on, whether that is an iPhone 18 Pro or the newly announced iPhone Duo. Apple’s September 8 page lists it at $6.99 a month in the US, with a one-month free trial for new subscribers. Apple’s page does not state whether the trial is available to anyone who has subscribed before, so that detail is not confirmed either way.
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How Apple One’s three tiers price it in
The same page prices Apple One, Apple’s bundle of multiple services, at three tiers. Apple names Fitness+ specifically as part of the Premier tier, but its page does not spell out the full list of services inside Individual or Family beyond that.
| Key facts | Detail |
|---|---|
| Apple Arcade, standalone | $6.99/month (US), one-month free trial |
| Apple One Individual | $21.95/month |
| Apple One Family | $27.95/month |
| Apple One Premier | $39.95/month |
| Source date | Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
Where Apple One is actually sold
Availability is not uniform. Apple’s page states that Individual and Family are sold in more than 100 markets, that Premier with Fitness+ reaches more than 20 markets, and that the full Premier bundle, meaning every service Premier can include, is limited to the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.
| Apple One tier | Where it is sold, per Apple |
|---|---|
| Individual and Family | 100+ markets |
| Premier with Fitness+ | 20+ markets |
| Full Premier bundle | US, Canada, Australia, UK only |
That leaves a gap for the more than 20 markets that get Premier with Fitness+ but not the full four-country bundle. Apple’s page does not say what, if anything, is different about that version of Premier, only that Fitness+ is present.
Why the free trial is worth checking now
Apple’s iOS 27 arrives Monday, September 14, 2026, and a wave of new hardware follows it into stores. Anyone setting up a new iPhone this month, and weighing whether to add Arcade, is doing so at the same $6.99 price and one-month trial Apple confirmed on September 8. Nothing in Apple’s September 9 keynote changed either figure, since Arcade and Apple One were not part of that keynote’s announcements at all.
Standalone Arcade or a bundle, and who each suits
Paying $6.99 a month for Arcade alone is the simplest option, and it is the right one for a reader who wants games and nothing else from Apple’s subscription services. The calculation changes for anyone already paying separately for other Apple subscriptions. If a household is already paying for Apple Music or Apple TV on their own, checking whether an Apple One tier would cost less in total than those separate subscriptions plus a standalone $6.99 Arcade charge is a reasonable exercise. Apple’s September 8 page does not publish the per-service breakdown needed to do that arithmetic precisely, since it names only Fitness+ as a defined Premier inclusion and leaves the rest of each tier’s contents unstated.
The same caution applies to families. Apple One Family costs $6 more a month than Individual, which is a comparatively small premium if a household already intends to share more than one Apple service, but Apple’s page gives no figure for how many members a Family plan supports, so that detail also has to come from elsewhere if a reader wants it confirmed.
What Apple has not said
- Which specific services sit inside the Individual and Family tiers, beyond naming Fitness+ for Premier.
- Whether the one-month Arcade trial is open to a subscriber who has cancelled and returned.
- What differs, if anything, between the 20-plus markets that get Premier with Fitness+ and the four that get the full Premier bundle.
Today is Saturday, September 12, 2026. Apple’s next confirmed change to Arcade itself is a set of new games due Thursday, October 1, 2026, which is the next date worth checking Apple’s newsroom for, rather than any change to the prices above.
