Music is quite important in lives of many of us. In these stressful times, music can actually help relax. U.S. prepaid market is full of providers fighting for customers (only our website covers nearly 50 of them), and only those who offer more to customers for the less price will survive (look what happened to PTel). Due to competition that’s enormously growing, prepaid carriers for some time now are working on separating themselves from their competition. For some prepaid carriers, one of the ways to stand out was to add unlimited music streaming that doesn’t count against plan’s high speed data. U.S. prepaid plans with free music streaming come from ROK Mobile, T-Mobile prepaid on two sets of plans, MetroPCS (T-Mobile’s prepaid brand) and Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile, both owned by Sprint.

ROK Mobile Prepaid plan with free music streaming

We should start with ROK Mobile since it’s fully music orientated and was among the firsts to offer free unlimited music streaming. ROK Mobile operates on one of the most reliable networks, Verizon’s. This MVNO has joined music with mobile service on only one plan $49.99 per month. Customers with this plan have access to more than 20 million songs for download and streaming. In addition, the plan includes:

$49.99 plan – unlimited talk, text and data with 5GB at 4G LTE plus free music streaming service

After 5GB of high speed data, ROK Mobile throttles data speeds for the remainder of the month, however, even reduced data speeds will support playback of unlimited music. Customers can bring their own phone and activate with ROK Mobile or they can purchase a new phone.

T-Mobile Prepaid plans with free music streaming

Perhaps T-Mobile is the one who deserves to be the first on this list thanks to its radical moves made to their postpaid and prepaid plan offerings, as adding free music streaming but also optimized free video streaming Binge On that doesn’t count against plan’s data and Data Maximizer that saves data by making it last three times longer.

Free unlimited music streaming is available on T-Mobile’s prepaid Simple Choice plans as Music Freedom and on Simply Prepaid plans as Music Unlimited. T-Mobile allows free music streaming from more than 40 music service providers, which are: 8tracks, AccuRadio, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Aud.io, Bandcamp, Beatport, Black Planet, Chilltrax, Dash Radio, DatPiff, Digitally Imported, ESPN Radio, Fit Radio, Google Music, Groove Music, iHeartRadio, Jango, JAZZRADIO.com, KCRW, Noon Pacific, OHIO.FM, Pandora, PreDanz, Radio Danz, Radio Paradise, radio.com, radioPup, RadioTunes, Rhapsody, ROCKRADIO.com, Saavn, Samsung Milk Music, SiriusXM, Slacker, SomaFM, SoundCloud, Spotify, StreamOn, Tidal Music, TuneIn Premium and Uforia.






T-Mobile’s prepaid Simple Choice plans with free music streaming also include:

$50 plan – unlimited talk, text and data with first 2 GB of 4G LTE

$65 plan – unlimited talk, text and data with first 6 GB of 4G LTE

$80 plan – unlimited talk, text and data with first 10 GB of 4G LTE

$95 plan – unlimited un-throttled 4G LTE data with 14 GB of mobile hotspot usage

T-Mobile’s Simply Prepaid plans with free music are:

$60 plan – includes unlimited talk, text and data with first 10GB at high speeds

$50 plan – includes unlimited talk, text and data with first 5GB at high speeds

$40 plan – includes unlimited talk, text and data with first 3GB at high speeds

Simple Choice plans are pricier for a reason. They offer more goodies as Binge On that allows watching videos at DVD quality (480px) without using plan’s data (6GB plan and up). Also these plans, comparing to Simply Prepaid plans, include international texting and coverage in Mexico and Canada; users of these plans can use their plan’s talk, text and data in these two countries as they are at home, at no additional charge. Also 6GB and 10GB data plans feature Data Stash that rolls over unused data for a year. In addition, both sets of T-Mobile’s prepaid plans include hotspot and Wi-Fi Calling.

Besides streaming music for free, hotspot and Wi-Fi Calling, Simply Prepaid plans also have a Data Maximizer that provides compressed video streaming, at DVD quality, which uses high speed data but makes it last three times longer. To these plans, coverage in Mexico and Canada can be added for $5 per month.

MetroPCS prepaid plans with free music streaming

MetroPCS is T-Mobile’s prepaid brand that’s also offering Music Unlimited, unlimited music streaming that doesn’t use plan’s data. The music service providers which are offering music to MetroPCS are the same as T-Mobile’s. MetroPCS plans also include:

$40 plan – includes unlimited talk, text and data with 3GB at 4G LTE, mobile hotspot, Music Unlimited, Data Maximizer, Wi-Fi Calling

$50 plan – includes unlimited talk, text and data with 5GB at 4G LTE, mobile hotspot, Music Unlimited, Data Maximizer, Wi-Fi Calling

$60 plan – includes unlimited talk, text and 4G LTE data, mobile hotspot up to 8GB, Music Unlimited, Data Maximizer and Wi-Fi Calling

Boost Mobile prepaid plans with free music streaming

Boost Mobile, Sprint’s prepaid brand, has recently added free unlimited music streaming to its plans. Their music streaming doesn’t count against plan’s high speed data. Boost Mobile adds free music streaming from the following streaming services: Pandora, Slacker Radio, iHeartRadio, Samsung Milk Music and 8tracks. Boost mobile’s prepaid service plans that include free music are:

$35 plan ($30 with auto pay) – unlimited talk, text and data with 2GB at high speed that can grow up to 5GB after 18 on-time payments, unlimited music streaming, hotspot

$45 plan ($40 with auto pay) – unlimited talk, text and data with 5GB at high speed that can grow up to 8GB after 18 on-time payments, unlimited music streaming, hotspot

$60 plan ($55 with auto pay) – unlimited talk, text and data (unthrottled), unlimited music streaming, hotspot

Boost plans also include free incoming calls and texts even for customers who haven’t paid for up to 60 days.

Virgin Mobile prepaid plans with free music streaming

Also prepaid brand of Sprint, Virgin Mobile has added data free music streaming in October last year. They offer free unlimited music streaming from the same streaming providers as Boost Mobile: Pandora, Slacker Radio, iHeartRadio, Samsung Milk Music and 8tracks. However, what differ are their plans which are less competitive than Boost’s. The plans are:

$30 plan – unlimited talk, text and data with first 500MB at high speeds

$40 plan – unlimited talk, text and data with first 4GB at high speeds

$50 plan – unlimited talk, text and data with first 6GB at high speeds

This list of U.S. prepaid plans with free music streaming misses only provider or MVNO that uses AT&T’s network. For now, popular prepaid brand of AT&T, Cricket Wireless is offering Deezer music streaming as an add-on for $6 per month, even though it was one of the few who offered it for free with Muve Music years ago, while Cricket was still CDMA based.