You don't need a cable bill to keep watching CNBC. Here's every way to stream it online, and how to do it for free.
Reviewed and updated July 2026 by our cord-cutting team · 10 options
You can get a CNBC live feed on Fubo, DIRECTV, Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV, Youtube TV Sports + News Plan, YouTube TV Sports + News + Entertainment Plan, Youtube TV News + Entertainment + Family Plan , YouTube TV, or CNBC+.
The cheapest option to watch CNBC is CNBC+ for $14.99/month.
This new streaming option debuted earlier this year and only recently added apps for Apple TV and Roku. It includes data streams and other features for an advanced market outlook.We have been covering streaming services for over 14 years, at first recommending movies and shows. Quickly, we realized that the question of "how to watch?" matters just as much as "what to watch?". We started monitoring and reviewing the over a hundred live TV and streaming services available in the US. All of that work lives on our cord-cutting hub.
This CNBC guide has been up since 2021, and we come back to it whenever something we wrote has stopped being true, which is more often than it should be. No company pays us to move it up the list, and we hold no stake in any of them.
Yes, with a free trial. CNBC is on Hulu + Live TV, and you can watch it free for Hulu + Live TV's 3-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
If you want a little bit of everything, then Hulu with Live TV is a worthy contender. It has live sports (though not a lot of RSNs), hefty entertainment catalogs from Disney+ and Hulu, and local channels. It also has Fox Business and Bloomberg if you want to check CNBC alternatives. Oh, and Hulu carries all seasons of Shark Tank on-demand, in case you were wondering.
It caps you at two simultaneous streams, the fewest of the big live-TV services; lifting that cap costs about $10 more a month.
Hulu + Live TV plans
Our breakdown of Hulu + Live TV →
Yes, with a free trial. CNBC is on DIRECTV, and you can watch it free for DIRECTV's 5-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
DirecTV Stream is the most expensive streaming service in this list, but that price tag comes with plenty of features, including unlimited DVR, great picture quality, and regional sports networks (RSNs). For the price, it could have a smoother interface, but we digress. If you’re looking for an all-around, comprehensive cable alternative, DirecTV Stream is the way to go. But if you’re on a budget, there are plenty of other affordable options.
The price climbs steeply between tiers, and a regional sports fee gets added on top.
DIRECTV plans
Yes, with a free trial. CNBC is on YouTube TV, and you can watch it free for YouTube TV's 7-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
There was a time YouTubeTV’s price was half of what it currently costs, but with that price increase came a lot of features and channels, including cable news and local channels. Paired with unlimited DVR and a near-seamless interface, it’s no wonder YouTube TV is a favorite among cord-cutters. It doesn’t have as many on-demand titles as other services, though, especially when compared to Hulu with Live TV.
At around $83 a month it's one of the priciest options, and add-ons push the bill past $100 fast.
YouTube TV plans
No. Sling TV doesn't carry CNBC.
No. Fubo doesn't carry CNBC.
No. Philo doesn't carry CNBC.
No. Paramount+ doesn't carry CNBC.
No. Peacock doesn't carry CNBC.
No. Frndly TV doesn't carry CNBC.
No. Disney+ only streams the Disney family (ABC, FX, Nat Geo, ESPN and the Disney kids channels), and CNBC isn’t part of it. The best way to watch CNBC without cable is YouTube TV above (free-trial).
No. HBO Max only streams the Warner Bros. Discovery family (HBO, Discovery, HGTV, TNT, CNN and the rest), and CNBC isn’t part of it. The best way to watch CNBC without cable is YouTube TV above (free-trial).
No. There’s no Prime Video Channels add-on for CNBC, so Prime can’t stream it on demand or live. The best way to watch CNBC without cable is YouTube TV above (free-trial).
The honest way to watch CNBC for free is a free trial, and the trick is not to spend them one at a time. Start one, then start the next when it ends, and you can string together a few weeks of free live TV back to back, usually enough to cover a tournament or a playoff run without paying for a month.
If you're cutting cable for CNBC, odds are you want USA Network too. It's a sister channel, so every service above that carries CNBC carries USA Network as well, and the same free trials get you both. See our full guide to watching USA Network without cable for the per-service breakdown.
| Service | From | Free trial | Plans | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hulu + Live TV |
$82.99/mo | 3 days | 2 | Get it |
| DIRECTV |
$94.99/mo | 5 days | 4 | Get it |
| YouTube TV |
$9.99/mo | 7 days | 2 | Get it |
CNBC and the US services that carry it are geo-locked to the United States, so your login stops working the moment you leave the country. A VPN fixes that: connect to a US server and the service sees a US address again. The catch is that streaming platforms actively block most VPN traffic, so the VPN you pick matters far more than the service does. These three reliably get back in:
A huge US server network (thousands of IPs across 15-plus cities) with SmartPlay DNS baked into every server, so streaming just works without extra setup. The best value of the top tier on a two-year plan.
Best for streaming CNBC with: Hulu + Live TV
Get NordVPN →The budget pick, and the one to get if the whole household travels: it allows unlimited simultaneous devices on one account, plus a Smart DNS for TVs. Reliable with the on-demand and lifestyle services.
Best for streaming CNBC with: Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV
Get Surfshark →Whichever you pick, connect to a US city first, then sign in to CNBC or the service that carries it as normal. Choose a VPN with a money-back window so you can confirm it un-blocks CNBC before you commit.
No. CNBC is a cable channel and doesn't broadcast over the air, so an antenna can't pick it up. An antenna only gets the free broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, The CW), which pair nicely with one of the services above; check which of those reach your address here.
Every service that carries CNBC runs on the major streaming platforms, so you can watch on just about any TV, phone, or console. Here's how, device by device:
On Roku, you can watch CNBC through Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, add the channel from the Roku Channel Store, sign in, and open CNBC in the live guide.
On Amazon Fire TV, you can watch CNBC through Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, download the app from the Amazon Appstore, sign in, and open CNBC in the live guide.
On Apple TV, you can watch CNBC through Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, install the app from the App Store, sign in, and open CNBC in the live guide.
On Android TV & Google TV, you can watch CNBC through Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, grab the app from the Google Play Store, sign in, and open CNBC in the live guide.
On Chromecast, you can watch CNBC through Hulu + Live TV. The gap: DIRECTV and YouTube TV don't offer a Chromecast app. To set it up, cast it from your phone or use the built-in Google TV app, sign in, and open CNBC in the live guide.
On Samsung & LG smart TVs, you can watch CNBC through Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, install the app from your TV's own store (Tizen or webOS), sign in, and open CNBC in the live guide.
On phones & tablets, you can watch CNBC through Hulu + Live TV, DIRECTV, and YouTube TV. To set it up, download the app from the App Store or Google Play, sign in, and open CNBC in the live guide.
On game consoles, you can watch CNBC through Hulu + Live TV and YouTube TV. The gap: DIRECTV doesn't offer a game consoles app. To set it up, download the app from the Xbox or PlayStation store, sign in, and open CNBC in the live guide.
Cheapest is the question everyone starts with, and it's the wrong place to stop. A $35 plan that drops CNBC the month after you sign up hasn't saved you anything. So the first number we pay attention to is the real one, what you owe after the introductory month ends, not the figure in the ad. From there it comes down to whether the channels you actually want sit in the base plan or get stranded in an add-on, how the service behaves day to day (a slow app and a useless DVR wear on you faster than you'd expect), and how much of a fight it puts up when you decide to leave.
Whatever lands at the top of a list like this is the service that gets most of that right for the most people. Once in a while that's also the cheapest one. Usually it isn't.
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