How to watch Super Bowl 2026: All your streaming options

Stream the Super Bowl live with a Peacock Premium (with ads) plan for $11 a month (or $110 for the year). You'll also get Winter Olympics coverage, shows from NBC and Bravo, and Peacock Originals like The Traitors. If you upgrade to Peacock Premium Plus for $17 a month (or $170 for the year), you'll get an ad-free experience plus the ability to download shows. (Note that live sports, including the Super Bowl, still have ads even on this plan.)

There are a couple of discounts available: If you're a college student, you can get a year of Peacock Premium for $6 a month. You can also bundle Peacock Premium with Apple TV for $15 a month, essentially getting you Apple TV for an extra $4 a month, down from the usual price of $13 a month. 

DirecTV's streaming offer has gone through a number of name changes. In the past, it's been DirecTV Stream, AT&T TV, AT&T TV Now, and DirecTV Now. Whatever you call it, you'll get your local NBC station to watch the game in 4K on its lowest-tier package: The $85 per month Select package. The service also offers Telemundo for its Spanish-speaking NFL fans. There's also a five-day free trial for any package.

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DirecTV's other streaming packages offer additional channels, with prices from $90 to $115 per month. DirecTV recently started offering 4K streaming, and it's available on all its packages at no additional charge. 

In addition, DirecTV Stream includes generous unlimited Cloud DVR storage. At home, you can watch the game or any other show on up to 20 streaming devices at once on your home network. Away from home, you can share your stream with up to three other devices.

Hulu with Live TV offers NBC on all its packages. Sign up for one of the service's bundles with Disney+ and ESPN Select (all with ads) for $90 a month after a three-day free trial, or pay $100 a month for the no-ads experience. 

With any of these packages, you can stream on two screens at once. For another $10 a month, you can play as many streams at once at home. But you're still limited to three screens while away from home. 

Another nice plus is that you can store unlimited videos in your cloud DVR archive for up to nine months. One thing you can't do, however, is watch or store the Super Bowl in 4K. While you can watch many Hulu shows, such as Only Murders in the Building, Kindred, and Reboot in 4K, live TV shows, including the Super Bowl, aren't available in 4K. 

YouTube TV offers more of the most popular channels than its competitors. By CNET's count, out of the top 100 networks, YouTube TV offers the most channels, 78, of any streaming service.

YouTube TV enables you to watch your local ABC, CBS, Fox, PBS, and NBC channels in most areas. That means, of course, you can easily watch the Super Bowl on the service with its lowest-priced plan, the YouTube TV Base Plan, for $60 a month for the first two months (after that, it's $83 a month). Spanish speakers, however, must pay $15 per month for the “Spanish Plus” add-on package.

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YouTube TV also offers a feature that can make watching the game more enjoyable. All TV broadcasts come with delays between the live action and what you see on your TV. As you may know, live broadcast delays on streaming services are longer than OTA's delays. They can range from six to 60 seconds. This latency is due to transmission slowdowns between the cameras and your screen. 

Now, some YouTube TV apps come with the option of reducing this delay, 

The new option is available in the YouTube TV app under the “More” menu > “Broadcast Delay”. You can choose between “Default” and “Decrease for 48 hours.” If you choose to decrease, you'll see the game a few seconds faster. But, Google warns, “The lower the broadcast delay, the less buffer the video player will have. With a lower broadcast delay, you're more likely to experience playback interruption.”

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That means the game may freeze at times, or you may experience choppy video. I fear the big game's load on the internet makes it more likely than not that you'll see a lot of bad playback. The choice is yours. Personally, I plan to try it because if the video goes south, I can always switch back to Default.  

YouTube TV also has unlimited cloud storage, and you get six accounts to share with your household. You can use this service on three screens at once. Super Bowl watchers can also watch the game in 4K, but you must pay an additional $9.99 for 4K Plus to get that resolution. Therefore, the total monthly cost for YouTube TV with 4K streaming after the first two months is $93 a month.

You can watch the Super Bowl with Sling TV's Orange and Blue plan ($30 for your first month, then $61 per month), Blue plan ($46 a month), or Select plan ($20 a month), but only in certain areas where NBC is available. Find out by entering your zip code on Sling's website before you sign up.

With Sling TV, subscribers automatically get 50 hours of free DVR storage, but you can extend that to 200 hours of storage by adding DVR+ for an additional $5 a month. With Sling Blue or Sling Latino, you can watch TV on up to three screens at once. If you also subscribe to Sling Orange, you can add one more screen for a total of four.