Our latest list of everywhere you can watch Anime Online, what they offer and what they cost to decide which is best for you.
Premium Paid Anime Stremaing Services
For the most popular and latest complete series and movies from anime, the chances are you will need to pay to access.
1. Crunchy Roll
2. Netflix
3. Amazon
4, Hulu
5. ConTV
6. Funimation
Free Anime Streaming Services
Anime has many options for free and legal streaming online, these services are normally networks that offer their latest episodes and movies online for a limited time such as Adultswim or take advantage of the huge amount of free content that can be uploaded and watched by anyone. MOstly these services will have adverts and may occasionally offer additional premium moves and shows on top of the tons of free content.
7. Adultswim
3rd Party Anime Libraries
The following are essentially all the same in terms of content and get their library of content form other sources. These services ar typically run and maintained by anime fans.
8. 9Anime
9. gogoanime
10. AnimeFreak
11. Chia Anime
12. Anime Dao
13. Master Ani
14. Anime Planet
Disclaimer: With most of these 3rd parties I cannot confirm their affiliate status or permissions to host/provide the content they provide, this article is for educational purposes only, many are hosted abroad and may be unsafe to use. Which is why we recommend sticking with paid services, networks or a service such as Adult Swim.
TV Networks with Anime Library
15. Tubi TV
16. Toku
What are The Best Streaming services for Anime
The best Premium paid service is Crunchyroll
The Best Fan Run Free Library is Anime Planet
1. Crunchy Roll
Quick Overview: Over 1000 Series and Movies, $7.99 per month, 14 day free trial
Crunchy Roll is one of the original streaming services dedicated to anime and one of the largest. With probably the largest library of popular anime and the most subscribers of anime only fans Crunchy Roll continues to be the chosen choice for the bulk of anime fans. The platform is not as refined as say Netflix or Amazon in terms of the interface and usability but it does have the content available.
Number of Movies and Shows: Over 1000 Series and Movies
Prices: $7.99 per month – there are also a $9.99 option per month, however it does not offer you more content. Instead the more expensive option give you extras such as allowing to stream on more devices and downloading content to watch offline. Or personal opinion is the extra money is not worth it as we are rarely in a situation where we cannot connect to the internet and there are rarely two anime fans in the same household wanting to watch anime simultaneously and separately.
Free Trial: 14 Days on all packages
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: Crunchyroll as a platform acts as a hub for anime fans offering Games, Merchandise and a blog for its users which are also mostly free to browse.
Best content sample: Attack on Titian, Hero Academia, Fire Force, Sword Art Online, Haikyu, Full Metal Alchemist.
2. Netflix
Quick Overview: no free trial, 180+ animes, prices from $9.99pm
Netflix has almost all basis covered, and Anime is no exception. Its Anime collection is forever growing as it has the resources to understand its popularity and importance in the future of streaming. As it is a service that offers lots of big series and movies then expect big anime movies within the Anime section, for example the Studio Ghibli collection. Typically it will have a lot of popular mainstream Anime.
Number of Anime Movies and Shows: 180+
Price: 1 Screen $9.99, 2 screens $15.49, 4 screens $19.99. Our experience with Netflix is having 2 or 4 screens is well worth it in a large household.
Free Trial: none
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: None
Best anime content sample: Spirited Away, Godzilla, Howls Moving Castle, Baki, Demon Slayer, Yu-Gi-Oh, Seven Deadly Sins, Pokemon
Tip: EXPAND YOUR NETFLIX LIBRARY, you can access global Netflix by browsing from different countries with a VPN Free Trial such as SurfShark. Try the Korean or Japanese Netflix for different Anime.
3. Amazon Prime
Quick Overview: 30 day free trial, 200+ anime, prices from $14.99pm
Being Amazon naturally they have a library that includes a little of everything Anime included. Amazon Prime itself comes with numerous other benefits of a huge library of movies and tv. In addition it is a renting platform where you can quickly and easily rent almost any other Anime not included in the Prime service.
Free Trial: 30 days
Number of Movies and Shows: Est 200 anime moves and series
Price: $14.99
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: Access to entire amazon library
Best anime content sample: Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon, Evangelion, Wotakoi, Dororo
4. Hulu
Quick Overview: 1month free trial, popular anime series, prices from $7.99pm
One of the more complete services for the US market. Hulu offers a little of everything and has many options to upgrade and include add-ons to extend your library. But for as little a $7.99 you will have access to an impressive library of popular Anime. This is probably one of the best for Anime if you are new to the genre and want to watch some of the more popular series such as Attack on Titan or Sword Art Online.
Free Trial: 1 month
Number of Movies and Shows: Unknown
Price: $14.99 no ads, $7.99 with ads.
Availability: USA
Additional Services: Access to entire Hulu library and can add additional premium networks for traditional cost.
Best anime content sample: Bleach, Chainsaw Man, My Hero Academia, Akira, Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan.
5. ConTV
Quick Overview: 7 day free trial, popular anime series, prices from $7.99pm
ConTV is a lot more than just a streaming platform. It is hub for comic fans. With live TV, free content, news blog and lots of fan favouritism content from across the world of comic culture. Essentially the service gives you access to comic base shows, cartoon and anime, as well as online comics. The amount of content available for Amazon channel users will vary depending on your location
Free Trial: 7 days free on Amazon
Number of Movies and Shows: Unknown
Price: Free or $6.99pm with no ads and exclusive VIP access or $4.99 on Amazon
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: Blog and news
Best anime content sample: Legend of Zelda, Super Mario,
Tip: You can access the library of shows on Amazon channels with a free trial and at a cheaper price, but you will not get all the same extras as the direct service.
6. Funimation
Quick Overview: Free and premium version available, 14 days free trial, merchandise shop price from $7.99 per month
Funimation has long been a supplier of Anime series in the US, however it is as of 2022 moving all its content to Crunchyroll as they are slowly merging. Both services are leading Anime platforms and this merge will make them the service to beat for Anime fans.
Free Trial: 14 days to premium and free version
Number of Movies and Shows: 1000s of anime episodes and movies
Price: Free or $7.99 or $9.99 per month and further discounts if purchasing whole year at once.
Availability: USA
Additional Services: Dragon BallZ, Demon Slayer
Best anime content sample: Rick & Morty, Futurama, American Dad, Space Dandy, Death Note, My Hero Academia.
7. Adult Swim
Quick Overview: Free service, Limited episodes. Includes Ads.
I have personally been using Adult Swim for years to watch random episodes show in futurama, Rick & Morty and American Dad. Yes, the service is 100% free in the US and requires no signup. It is as easy as clicking on an episode and watching. However, it is not like a streaming service where you can watch endless boxsets, instead it will often just have a selection of episodes, which have recently been aired I most scenarios. This works as more of a catch-up service where episodes are available for a limited time before being updated.
The content is not so much Asian Anime or magna but more American Adult comedy cartoon series.
Free Trial: 100% Free
Number of Movies and Shows: Unknown
Price: Free
Availability: USA
Additional Services: Games and Music
Best anime content sample: Rick & Morty, Futurama, American Dad,
Tip: If your outside the US you can access adultswim with a VPN service such as SurfShark
8. 9Anime
Quick Overview: Free service, magna content, available worldwide
9Anime is the go-to place for free magna anime. It offers Subbed and Dubbed content on thousands of anime series and movies. You can make an account, or you can just click and watch. This one of the easiest and most convenient places for magna content. This is a service for real magna fans.
Free Trial: free
Number of Movies and Shows: Est 3000+ Episodes and 600+ movies
Price: Free
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: music
Best anime content sample: Ghost in the Shell, Demon Slayer, Pokemon
9. gogoanime
Quick Overview: Free service, magna content, available worldwide
Gogoanime is another free service where it is easy to access thousands of anime series available in English and Japanese. Much of the content will be like 9anime. My favourite thing about this service is at time of writing they have a selection of Studio Ghibli movies available.
Free Trial: NA
Number of Movies and Shows: 1000s of episodes and movies
Price: Free
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: Music
Best anime content sample: Digimon, Pokemon, Studio Ghibli Movies, Dragon Ball, Meitantei Conan, Final Fantasy
10. Anime Freak
Quick Overview: Free service, magna content, available worldwide
Part of one of the growing free services offering thousands of free anime series with no cost or signup, The content will be similar to both gogoanime and 9anime. At time of writing it had some additional; moves such as Kung Fu Panda and Disney’s Ratatouille meaning it can offer some other movies outside the standard Asian Anime and magna.
Free Trial: NA
Number of Movies and Shows: 1000s of episodes and movies
Price: Free
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: None
Best anime content sample: The Clone Wars, Various Batman Anime, Sword Art Online, KungFu Panda.
11. Chia Anime
Quick Overview: Free service, large magna library, available worldwide
Another large library of Asian Anime. An easy-to-use library of no frills anime to search and enjoy with no signup and no cost.
Free Trial: NA
Number of Movies and Shows: 1000s of episodes and movies
Price: Free
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: None
Best anime content sample: Yu Gi Oh, Pokemon, Bleach, Chainsaw Man
12. Anime Dao
Quick Overview: Quick Overview: Free service, large magna library, available worldwide
A free library of more anime and magna. This platform is a little less user appealing but still offers much of the same content as many competitors.
Free Trial: NA
Number of Movies and Shows: 1000s of episodes and movies
Price: Free
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: None
Best anime content sample: Ajin, Full metal Alchemist, Ghost in the shell, Tokyo Ghoul
13. Master Ani
Quick Overview: Quick Overview: Free service, large magna library, available worldwide
Large library of free anime with a joint discord community. This service tries to differ itself from the many carbon copy sites by creating an active community within discord as well as an online chat. This community mostly helps guide people as to what to watch and where, be it on the site itself or elsewhere, A great location for likeminded anime fans.
Free Trial: NA
Number of Movies and Shows: 1000s of episodes and movies
Price: Free
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: None
Best anime content sample: Monsters Vs Aliens, Naruto Dragon Ball, Rou-Jin, Demon Slayer, Pokemon, Megamind
14. Anime Planet
Quick Overview: Free, Large Community, Fan Run
Anime Planet is aptly named, it is a huge community of anime fans run by anime fans. It includes Forums, Discord, challenges Reviews and much more. Th library of 3rd party of content is no different to the other free 3rd party sites, but the community is one of the largest.
Free Trial: NA
Number of Movies and Shows: 1000s of shows and movies
Price: Free
Availability: Worldwide
Additional Services: Community, Discord Group, Challenges, Magna Comics
Best anime content sample: Haikyuu, GIntama, ON Punch Man, My Hero Academia, Fairy Tail
15. Tubi TV
Quick Overview: Free, Online Tv Channels, Catchup service
Tubi TV is a free streaming service offering tons of content including dozens of great Anime Movies and shows. Tubi is essentially just online tv channels which offers its recent content free online as a catch-up service. You can access dozens of channels form the like s of Fox, ABC and many more.
Free Trial: NA
Number of Movies and Shows: Live TV with Catch up options on 1000s of recently aired content
Price: Free
Availability: USA
Additional Services: Live Tv Channels
Best anime content sample: Naruto, Pokemon, Yi Gi OH, Afro Samurai, Death Note, Sonic, Transformers, Street Fighter.
16. Toku
Quick Overview: Free with ads, Amazon Channel
Toku is an American network channels that offers East Asian Programming to US customers. The streaming service will have a selection of the most recent content (Although the Anime selection is rather small at any given time). You can access their content for free through an Amazon Channel as a Amazon Prime member. It is also available on most cable providers.
Free Trial: Free with ads
Number of Movies and Shows: Selection of dozens of classic movies and series
Price: Free
Availability: USA on Amazon Channels
Additional Services: none
Best anime content sample: Mirrorman, Queens Blade, Kamen Rider