The Cost of Streaming Seattle Sports in 2025
Leading up to Opening Day in Major League Baseball, the Seattle Mariners announced that they were launching a streaming only option for fans in the Seattle market to watch every locally televised game in the ROOT Sports app for $19.99 per month.
This was both a revolutionary and highly anticipated move as the landscape of watching live sports has changed dramatically in recent years with an increasing percentage of consumers choosing to cut the cord. Many fans praised the move as giving fans easier access to streaming Seattle Mariners baseball in an effort to endear the sport in this market to a younger fan base. The main takeaway for a large portion of the fan base is that there is now an option to watch Mariners baseball without having to subscribe to Cable or a Live TV streaming service (Fubo TV) in order to watch Mariners baseball.
With that announcement made, below is a breakdown for the four major Seattle professional teams and what the options are to stream their games live, presented with prices and added benefits or drawbacks for each option.
Disclaimer: this does not include Cable TV options as most cable packages will include these options available.
Seattle Mariners
Fubo TV
Fubo TV acts as a streaming substitute for cable with a large portion of the channel lineup offered in cable packages, including ROOT Sports (in the Mariners market) available in the basic plan.
Cost: $84.99 per month.
Added benefit: multiple other live sports included in basic package including: CBS, FOX, ESPN, ABC, NBC, FS1.
Drawback: No TNT or TBS (NBA and NHL national broadcasts, March Madness).
ROOT Sports App Mariners Subscription
As mentioned above, this would give access to users the full ROOT Sports programming (mainly Mariners baseball games) in the app that is available to also watch on a laptop and smart TV’s (Amazon Fire Stick, Roku, etc.).
Cost: $19.99 per month.
Drawback: Only Mariners games, no added live sports value.
Apple TV
Carries two MLB games on stream only every Friday night throughout the regular season (not available with any other service or package).
Mariners have two of these games in the first three months of the season.
Second half Apple TV schedule will be revealed at a later date.
Not an additional package with Apple TV (unlike MLS). If you subscribe, you have access to the games.
If you want to watch every regular season game you need:
Fubo OR ROOT Sports subscription.
Apple TV
As more baseball teams include options similar to the one launched by Seattle heading in to the 2025 season, it was increasingly important for Seattle to make this announcement and give fans the option if they JUST wanted Mariners baseball, to not force them to subscribe to a cable or FUBO TV option.
Seattle Seahawks
Fubo TV
Cost: $84.99 per month.
All NFL games included except stream only games (TNF on Prime Video, occasionally Peacock exclusive, etc.).
Includes ROOT Sports (Mariners).
YouTube TV
Cost: $82.99 per month.
Same package as Fubo but without ROOT Sports, and with TNT and TBS.
All NFL games included except stream only games (TNF on Prime Video, occasionally Peacock exclusive, etc.).
Added benefit: Ability to add on Sunday Ticket to your package to watch all out-of-market NFL games.
Hulu + Live TV
Cost: $81.99 per month.
Same Package as YouTube TV.
All NFL games included except stream only games (TNF on Prime Video, occasionally Peacock exclusive, etc.).
Added benefit: Get ESPN+, Disney+ and Hulu added on for just $1 more per month.
NFL+
Includes all live Seahawks and primetime games (SNF, MNF, and TNF).
ONLY on phone or tablet, not available on TV or computer.
Cost: $6.99 per month or $49.99 per season.
NFL Network included.
Prime Video
Thursday Night Football every week during the regular season exclusively on Prime.
Cost: $14.99 per month, or $139 annually.
No added cost if you have Amazon Prime already.
Peacock
Usually one or two exclusive Peacock games per year in the NFL playoffs.
Package includes Sunday Night Football on NBC.
Cost: $7.99 per month.
Paramount+
Ability to watch every Seahawks game that is on CBS on Paramount+.
Cost: $7.99 per month.
If you want to watch every regular season game you need:
Fubo TV, YouTube TV, or Hulu + Live TV and Prime Video
or
NFL+
For fans to catch the Seahawks games via stream it is pretty simple, you either need a Live TV streaming service AND Prime Video, or NFL+.
Seattle Kraken
Prime Video
Watch all local Seattle Kraken broadcasts on the Kraken Hockey Network on Prime video.
Included with your Amazon Prime subscription if you are within the Seattle Kraken market.
Does NOT include National TV broadcasts (ESPN, ESPN+, TNT).
Cost: $14.99 per month or $139 annually.
Live TV Streaming Service (FUBO, YouTube TV, etc.)
All local Kraken games would be available on KING or KONG which are provided by most Live TV streaming services.
Does not include ESPN+ exclusive games.
If you have FUBO, does not include TNT broadcasts.
ESPN+
Various ESPN+ exclusive games, only available through the subscription service.
If subscribed, almost all out of market games are included as part of the package, so if you watch other NHL games besides the Kraken, this is a necessity.
Cost: $11.99 per month
MAX
Subscription includes TNT and TBS sports broadcasts, so if you have FUBO and are looking for a way to get those added on, this is the package for you.
Cost: $16.99 per month or $169.99 for the year.
Seattle Sounders
MLS Season Pass with Apple TV
The MLS is on it’s third year of an exclusive deal with Apple TV, an all or nothing approach where if you subscribe to MLS Season Pass, you get every MLS game, in-market and out-of-market, no blackouts.
This is the only way to watch the Sounders.
It is an add-on to Apple TV, so it is NOT included with just the normal Apple TV subscription.
Cost: $14.99 per month or $99 for the whole season.
It is quite fascinating to see each teams approach to tackling the distribution question. In some cases (Sounders, Seahawks) the league calls the shots much more than the team. For instance, with the MLS, the league as a whole made the decision and hired a large portion of local broadcasters from local markets to be part of the rotating cast for all MLS games on Apple TV. The NFL is in a different boat because every game is on a network anyways, and because of the popularity of the NFL, they will always have eyes on them. It is interesting to see that the league that does not need the ratings boost (NFL) has taken the “ease of access” route to being able to view games. A $6.99 per month subscription to watch every Seahawks and primetime game is less than half the price per month of what it costs to watch all Sounders games. Granted, it is only available on phone and tablet, but still, one would think because of the demand, that number would be the opposite.
The Mariners for the longest time had one way and one way only to view their games and that was via a cable subscription even as recently as two years ago. They finally partnered with a streaming service in Fubo to give cord cutters an option, but still severely limiting possible viewership without a route to JUST watch Mariners games. Now with the launch of the ROOT Sports stream, it would not be surprising to see a massive jump in ratings due to the streaming addition, and with more options available, this is a big win for the franchise.
The Kraken arguably have the most balanced approach. With options for viewing ranging from Cable TV on KING and KONG, Live TV streaming services on those same channels, but also a streaming only option INCLUDED with Amazon Prime. That is a huge addition for the newest franchise in Seattle as they look to grow their fanbase and have succeeded in doing so by giving viewers the most options while also not putting their product behind a paywall (looking at you, MLS).
What does all of this mean for streaming Seattle sports in 2025? Live sports cost money. Period. But, with more viewing options available than ever before, fans can package together what they think is most important to them to create the best experience for viewing live sports at the lowest cost. Cable TV is still the best all-encompassing option, with the trade off being that it is the most expensive option as well. But, even at that high price point, there are still games you won’t have available to you if you JUST have cable (Thursday Night Football, MLS, ESPN+ exclusive hockey and football games, etc.).
Regardless, it is encouraging to see the teams in this market adapt to what is a growing percentage of their viewership that are consuming games via stream, and give that audience a way to see the product. For the fan in the live sports landscape, more options are always better.
