Updated July 2026 with current Indian retail prices.
EA Play costs ₹399 a month or ₹2,499 a year in India, and if you are here for FC 26 the maths says do not buy the subscription: FC 26 is ₹750 on Steam India and about ₹999 on Xbox right now, so owning the game costs less than half of one year of EA Play. EA Play is worth a single ₹399 month if you want Battlefield and the EA catalog too. Ubisoft+ Premium is only worth it on the annual plan, currently ₹5,399, and only if you buy two or more new Ubisoft games a year. Never pay the ₹899 monthly rate for a full year. Before paying for either, check what you already hold: EA Play is free inside Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, and Ubisoft+ Classics is free inside Game Pass Ultimate and PS Plus Extra or Deluxe.
Key facts
- EA Play: ₹399 a month or ₹2,499 a year in India, the same on Xbox, PlayStation and Steam. Verified on Microsoft’s catalog, July 2026
- Ubisoft+ Premium: ₹899 a month, or ₹8,999 a year list with 40 percent off live at about ₹5,399 until July 30. Never pay monthly, twelve months at ₹899 is ₹10,788
- FC 26 is on EA Play, but check the buy price first: it is ₹750 on Steam India and about ₹999 on Xbox today, against ₹2,499 for a year of EA Play. For FC alone, buying wins
- Do not double pay: EA Play is free inside Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Ubisoft+ Classics is free inside Game Pass Ultimate and PS Plus Extra or Deluxe
- Do not trust the old advice that EA subs never auto renew in India. Bought through Xbox, PlayStation or Steam, they are billed by that store and they do renew. Cancel through the store you bought from
Jump to your answer
EA Play costs ₹399 a month in India and Ubisoft+ Premium costs ₹899, and most pages about them stop there. This one does the step that changes the answer: it prices the games you would otherwise buy.
Do that and the advice inverts. If you came here for FC 26, the game costs ₹750 on Steam India and about ₹999 on Xbox right now, against ₹2,499 for a year of EA Play. Buying it is less than half the price of subscribing, and you keep it. That is the opposite of what almost every other guide tells you, and it is the sort of thing you only find by checking rather than repeating.
There is still a case for paying, and it is a narrow one, so this page lays out what each service costs, when it is genuinely worth it, and the two ways Indians most often waste money on them. If you are weighing these against Game Pass itself, our Game Pass India guide prices every tier.
EA Play at 399 rupees: the FC and Battlefield pass
EA Play costs ₹399 a month or ₹2,499 a year in India, identical across Xbox, PlayStation and Steam, and we verified those numbers on Microsoft’s own catalog rather than trusting a blog. The annual plan works out to ₹208 a month, which sounds unbeatable until you price the game you actually want.
FC 26 joined the Play List in June 2026 and every other guide treats that as the reason to subscribe. Run the numbers and it is the reason not to: FC 26 is ₹750 on Steam India and about ₹999 on Xbox right now, so a year of EA Play costs more than three times what the game does. Where EA Play does earn its keep is one month at ₹399, enough to play through Battlefield, Dead Space and the Mass Effect trilogy. The other trap: if you were ever going to buy PC Game Pass at ₹879, EA Play is already inside it, and paying for both is money burnt.
EA Play
FC 26 included, but cheaper to buyGood for one month, not a yearFree inside Game Pass Ultimate
Ubisoft Plus at 899 rupees: for the day one Ubisoft player only
Ubisoft+ Premium is ₹899 a month or ₹8,999 a year in India, though an annual promo has been running at ₹5,399, and yes it is genuinely available here on both Xbox and PC. It gives you day one access to new Ubisoft releases in their premium editions, over a hundred games, and 20 percent off anything Ubisoft you buy outright.
The honest maths, and never pay monthly here. Twelve months at ₹899 is ₹10,788, and on that number you would need two new Ubisoft releases a year just to break even. But the annual plan is live at about ₹5,399 right now, Ubisoft’s own store running 40 percent off the yearly plan until July 30, and that changes the verdict, though not as far as the marketing wants: at ₹5,399 the subscription only pays for itself if the one game you would have bought sits at the top of the usual ₹4,000 to ₹6,000 range. Below roughly ₹5,400, buying the game outright is still the cheaper move. Check the annual price before you ever subscribe monthly. The promo is the whole case for this service, and it renews at ₹8,999. For everyone else the cheaper truth is that the back catalog you actually want, Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, The Division, sits in Ubisoft+ Classics, and Classics is already free inside Game Pass Ultimate and PS Plus Extra or Deluxe. Check what you already own before paying anyone.
Ubisoft+ Premium
Day one Ubisoft releasesVerified India pricingClassics often already yours
Check what you already own before you pay
The most common money mistake with these two is paying twice for the same thing. EA Play is already inside Game Pass Ultimate (₹1,089 a month) and PC Game Pass (₹879 a month). Ubisoft+ Classics is already inside Game Pass Ultimate and inside PS Plus Extra and Deluxe, and has been since 2022. Note that it is Extra, not just the top Deluxe tier, so more people already own this than realise it. If you hold any of those, a separate subscription is a duplicate charge.
The trap that catches people is the cheaper Game Pass tiers: Game Pass Essential (₹499) and Premium (₹699) include neither service. The October 2025 restructure kept EA Play in the top tiers only, so if you bought Premium expecting EA Play, you do not have it. Our Xbox Game Pass India guide prices every tier and tells you which one to hold. Start there if you are choosing between Game Pass and these two.
The FC 26 maths that decides this
For a large share of Indian players this entire decision is about one game, so check the price of that game before you subscribe to anything. Almost every guide on this topic skips this step, and skipping it inverts the answer.
FC 26 on Steam India costs ₹750. That is not a sale price, it is the standing price, because EA prices its sports titles far below global rates in India. The same game is 69.99 dollars in the US. On Xbox India it lists at ₹4,999 but is selling for ₹999 as we publish this. EA Play annual costs ₹2,499.
So the honest sum. On PC this is settled and it is durable: ₹750 to own against ₹2,499 to rent for a year, and the ₹750 is not a sale, it is the price. The line every other guide runs, that an annual subscription beats buying a new FC each year, is simply false on PC in India. On Xbox be more careful, because the ₹999 is an 80 percent sale off a ₹4,999 list price. While that sale runs, buying wins there too. Once it lapses and FC 26 returns to ₹4,999, a ₹2,499 year of EA Play genuinely does undercut buying it on console. On PC, buy the game. On Xbox, check today’s price of the game first, then decide.
The subscription only wins if you would genuinely play several EA games, Battlefield, the Dead Space remake, the Mass Effect trilogy, and not just FC. In that case ₹399 for a single month is the smart shape, not ₹2,499 for a year. If FC is the only reason you are here, buy the game and skip the subscription.
The India billing quirk, and the advice that is now out of date
You will read on a lot of Indian gaming sites, and you would have read it here in an earlier draft, that EA subscriptions never auto renew on Indian cards because of RBI’s rules on recurring payments, so the plan just lapses and nothing can silently charge you. Treat that as out of date, because acting on it can cost you money.
Two things changed. EA’s India help page that documented the no auto renewal behaviour has been taken down, it now redirects to EA’s help homepage, so EA no longer states this anywhere. And where you actually buy the subscription matters: buy EA Play through the Xbox India store or through Steam and it is billed by Microsoft or Valve, not by EA, and it renews on their terms. Xbox India openly sells SKUs described as renewing monthly and yearly, and Steam India’s own checkout says the subscription is auto renewed every one month.
So assume it renews and cancel it yourself. Cancel through whichever store you bought it from, Xbox, PlayStation or Steam, not through EA. The old advice was safe when EA billed you directly from the EA app. It is not safe for the way most Indians actually buy this, which is through a platform store.
Every price in one table
India prices read from Microsoft’s product catalog and the platform stores on July 13, 2026. Promotional prices move, the links show what is live.
| Subscription | Monthly | Annual | Platforms | Bundled inside |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EA Play | ₹399 | ₹2,499 | Xbox, PlayStation, Steam, EA app | Free in Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass |
| Ubisoft+ Premium | ₹899 | ₹8,999 list, ₹5,399 promo | Xbox, PC via Ubisoft Connect | Not bundled anywhere |
| Ubisoft+ Classics | ₹399 | Not sold annually | PlayStation standalone | Free in Game Pass Ultimate and PS Plus Extra or Deluxe |
| Xbox Game Pass Ultimate | ₹1,089 | Not sold annually | Xbox, PC, cloud | Includes EA Play and Ubisoft+ Classics |
| PC Game Pass | ₹879 | Not sold annually | PC | Includes EA Play |
How we checked the prices
Every subscription price here was pulled from Microsoft’s own product catalog for the Indian market on July 13, 2026, rather than repeated from other articles, because this topic is full of stale and invented numbers.
We also did the thing that most guides skip, and that an earlier version of this page skipped too: we priced the games. FC 26 was read from Steam’s own storefront API for the Indian region, where it is ₹750 with no discount applied, and from Microsoft’s India catalog, where it lists at ₹4,999 and is currently ₹999. Those two numbers are what flipped this page’s recommendation, and they are the reason we now check the price of the game before we ever recommend a subscription that contains it.
Bundling claims come from EA’s and Microsoft’s own support documentation. Two figures on this page have an expiry date and we would rather say so than let them quietly rot: the Ubisoft+ yearly promo ends on July 30, after which the annual price reverts to ₹8,999 and the verdict moves back to needing two Ubisoft games a year. And FC 26 on Xbox is ₹999 only while an 80 percent sale runs on its ₹4,999 list price. We recheck this page on July 31.
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Read the guide →Frequently Asked Questions
How much is EA Play in India?
₹399 a month or ₹2,499 a year, the same price on Xbox, PlayStation and Steam. The annual plan works out to about ₹208 a month, which is roughly a 48 percent saving. Both figures were read from Microsoft’s India catalog in July 2026.
Is EA Play free with Game Pass?
Yes, but only on the top tiers. Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass both include EA Play at no extra cost. Game Pass Essential and Premium do not, which is a change many people missed in the October 2025 restructure. If you hold Ultimate or PC Game Pass, never pay for EA Play separately.
Is FC 26 on EA Play, and is that cheaper than buying it?
It is on EA Play, and no, it is not cheaper. FC 26 costs ₹750 on Steam India, which is its standing price rather than a sale, and about ₹999 on Xbox India right now. A year of EA Play costs ₹2,499. Buying the game outright is the cheaper move on both platforms, and you keep it. Subscribe for a single ₹399 month only if you also want Battlefield and the rest of the EA catalog.
Is Ubisoft+ available in India?
Yes, contrary to a common assumption. Ubisoft+ Premium sells on Xbox India at ₹899 a month and on PC through Ubisoft Connect, and Ubisoft+ Classics sells standalone on PlayStation at ₹399. India is on Ubisoft’s own availability list for the PC service.
Is Ubisoft+ Classics included in PS Plus?
Yes, in the higher tiers. Ubisoft+ Classics has been part of PS Plus Extra and Deluxe since 2022, and Deluxe is the top tier sold in India. It is also included in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. So the standalone Classics subscription only makes sense for players on the base tiers who want the Ubisoft back catalog.
What is the difference between EA Play and EA Play Pro?
EA Play is the standard tier: catalog access, 10 hour trials of new releases, 10 percent off EA purchases. EA Play Pro is a pricier PC only tier, sold through the EA app, that gives you full new releases at launch instead of trials. EA does not publish an India rupee price for Pro on any public page, it only appears once you are signed into the EA app, so treat any Pro price you see quoted elsewhere with suspicion.
Does EA Play auto renew in India?
Assume yes and cancel it yourself. The widely repeated claim that RBI’s recurring payment rules stop EA subscriptions renewing on Indian cards came from an EA help page that has since been taken down, and it only ever described EA app billing. If you subscribe through Xbox, PlayStation or Steam, that store bills you and the plan renews on its terms, so cancel through the store you bought it from.
Should I buy EA Play or Game Pass?
If the EA catalog is all you want, EA Play at ₹399 for one month is much cheaper. If you want a broad library, day one Xbox releases and cloud gaming, PC Game Pass at ₹879 already includes EA Play, which makes it the better single purchase. What you should never do is pay for both, and if FC is your only game, buy FC instead of either.
