Is it worth the cost to have a Crunchyroll and Hidive subscription at the same time?

Hi all!

I already have a Crunchyroll subscription but I found out that a lot of the series and movies on my watchlist from MAL are not on Crunchyroll. Now I’m considering trying Hidive, but I was wondering if it is very different in available content than Crunchyroll. Is it worth the cost to have them both? Or does anyone have experience with any other streaming platform that has different content than Crunchyroll? Main reason for me to keep Crunchyroll is One Piece (love it 😍), but I keep getting disappointed when I try to find other stuff from my watchlist 🥲

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Jusenkyo_52026-01-30 18:42

Financially your best option would be to choose which shows you want to watch that month and only keep the streaming service that has it and switch off periodically.

Realistically it's like $8.

SlimeDNear2026-01-30 18:44

My policy is to have one subscription, watch everything I want on it, then move to the new service and then cancel the old. Cycle through all the services and by the time you get back to the 1st hopefully there's new stuff to watch.

Saves money but it does mean you won't be current on every show.

RyaReisender2026-01-30 18:44

I mean each service has different shows. There's many Crunchyroll has that Hidive doesn't.

If you have the money, you can just subscribe to multiple services.

Otherwise, keep in mind that you can only watch one anime at once anyway, so you could just do monthly subscriptions and then switch after one month to save money and still watch all shows from both sites legally.

lminer1232026-01-30 18:56

I’ve got those two, with HI-Dive through prime (since the app is trash). For a US audience it’s prob the most bang for your buck spread. Sure there will be some stuff on Hulu and Netflix, but that really hasn’t stopped me from watching basically everything I want.

Crunchyroll is the real powerhouse, with most of the seasonal stuff, but some of my favorites are on Hi-Dive like Dangers in My Heart or Eminence in Shadow.

TheBatemanFlex2026-01-30 19:01

I would cancel it and then resub when there is something you want to watch. For me, its only like twice a year that I need to sub to HiDive to watch something.

Geoffk1232026-01-30 19:17

Hi dive is always kind of been a service that is generally inferior to crunchyroll but occasionally gets a banger exclusive or 2. Oshi No KO S3 going to Croll killed any desire for me to have Hidive atm

I would just see if anything new shows up that looks interesting that youd want to check out and then buy a month and binge it.

ActualRound76992026-01-30 19:17

ehh it isnt a huge boon financially. take a look at what HiDive has, and if you can justify at least 50 shows Imwould probably get it.

Out of the two, Crunchyroll is better though because of the volume of titles.

Lost-Bet60722026-01-30 19:18

Honestly Crunchyroll have lost their minds cranking up the price after taking over Funimation. Only get Crunchyroll at a discount cough discord servers cough
DM me and I can send some servers your way.

SirRHellsing2026-01-30 19:23

As a pirate, my advice is to sail the high seas

theEvilQuesadilla2026-01-30 23:25

I also pirate but have subscriptions to both for one simple reason: I'm not fucking going back to shitty-ass fansubs.

Calwings2026-01-30 20:09

HiDive does have a decent chunk of exclusive stuff that you won't find on any of the other legal streaming services, but I don't think they get enough seasonal anime to consider keeping them as a full-time subscription. Just subscribe when they do get a seasonal anime that you want to watch, use those few months to watch as much other stuff on HiDive as you can, then cancel it.

theEvilQuesadilla2026-01-30 23:24

I do and I have no regrets. Remember, folks: the only names in town are Hidive and Crunchyroll. Crunchy has Sony behind them so they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Hidive needs our support because if they go down, crunchy becomes a monopoly and we get fucked hard.

Muffin-zetta2026-01-30 23:58

Well isn’t much on hidive but having both is like 140 dollars a year, which is not very much money

giitaru-kun2026-01-31 02:51

Subscriptions are only worth paying regularly if the service provides new interesting content in a regular basis. Crunchyroll has the most value since it has the majority of the shows, while HIDIVE only has 4 shows currently on simulcast. One of them, Oshi No Ko is on Crunchyroll also.

Otherwise, I would do what others recommended, watch the shows, then unsubscribe after there is nothing worth it.

I have this problem with Disney+/Hulu, which Bleach, One Punch Man, Medalist is there. It wasn't worth paying monthly just to watch those.