You don't need a cable bill to keep watching FOX. Here's every way to stream it online, and how to do it for free.
Reviewed and updated June 2026 by our cord-cutting team · 11 options
FOX has dibs on plenty of sporting events, many of them exclusively, like the World Series and Daytona 500, but there are other reasons to tune into the channel. Maybe you want to catch the local news, or maybe you want to know how The Simpsons are faring. Whatever your reason, we hope this guide helps you out.
You can watch FOX on Fubo, Sling TV Blue, DIRECTV, Hulu with Live TV, Tubi, Sling Select, YouTube TV, Tablo TV, or Fox One.
The cheapest option to watch FOX is Tablo TV for $0/month.
I started A Good Movie to Watch in 2013, and for a long time cord-cutting was something we covered because readers kept asking about it, not because we went looking for it. The prices changed that. We now keep paid accounts on more than a hundred live TV and streaming services in the US, and we hold onto them on purpose, since the only reliable way to know that a service has raised its price or dropped a channel is to be the one getting the bill. The rest of that work is on our cord-cutting hub.
This FOX 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. The affiliate links on this page are part of how we keep it free to read, but they have no effect on the ranking or on anything we say about a service. When one of them is overpriced or a chore to use, we tell you that, even the ones paying us a commission.
Start with these. Every service below comes with a free trial, so you can watch FOX without paying a cent, at least to start.
Fubo is a great option if you’re only looking for local channels like FOX and sports channels like MLB Network, NBA TV, and NHL Network. But it’s missing a lot of variety, especially since a carrier dispute resulted in the removal of crucial channels like TBS, TNT, HBO, TCM, and HGTV. Since it’s one of the few services with RSNs, however, we think it’s still worth checking out.
It leans heavily on sports, and a regional sports fee of a few dollars up to about $17 by ZIP gets added on top.
DirecTV Stream can be expensive, but you do get what you pay for. With that price tag comes great streaming quality, unlimited DVR, RSNs, and plenty of other channels. It’s great if you can afford it. If you can’t, just be wary of its price hikes.
The price climbs steeply between tiers, and a regional sports fee gets added on top.
Hulu with Live TV isn’t cheap, but it justifies its price by offering a good number of live TV channels, on-demand content, and sporting events. It’s a nice enough mix that will cater to young and old audiences if you’re after that kind of variety. Unlike its competitors, however, Hulu with Live TV only allows up to two simultaneous streams.
It caps you at two simultaneous streams, the fewest of the big live-TV services; lifting that cap costs about $10 more a month.
The “MySports” package from DirecTV is the cheapest way to combine ESPN, ESPN+, Fox Sports, ABC, TNT, and NBC. It’s the sports bundle that we could have only dreamed of in the past, especially considering that DirecTV is widely considered to have the best picture quality out of every cord-cutting service.
It's a sports-only skinny bundle, so it leaves out most entertainment and news channels.
YouTube TV’s interface is one of the simplest to grasp, which makes it great for beginners and minimalists alike. The fact that it has most local channels helps its popularity too. The service doesn’t have the best picture quality, but plenty of users overlook that for ease of use.
At around $83 a month it's one of the priciest options, and add-ons push the bill past $100 fast.
Fox One brings together all things Fox into one accessible platform for $19.99/month. The live and on-demand streaming service carries every Fox channel, from your local affiliate and Fox News to FS1 and FS2. It also allows you to watch ongoing Fox sitcoms and dramas on demand, but older shows might be missing from the catalog. Though pricey, Fox One is free for viewers who already pay for TV subscriptions that come with Fox, like DirecTV, Fubo, or Hulu with Live TV. It’s also available in select bundles and as an add-on to platforms like Prime Video.
It only carries Fox's own networks, so there's no ESPN, no Turner, and no other broadcaster.
These don't offer a free trial, so you'll pay from day one. They're here for completeness and for the cases where they're cheaper or carry something the trial services don't.
With Sling Blue, you get FOX with 40 other channels, all for the price of $45.99 ($50.99 in some markets), which was unthinkable back in the cable days. The catch? FOX and other local channels are available in select cities only. Make sure you check this page before you decide to subscribe.
There's no ESPN on the Blue lineup, and local channels only come in a handful of markets.
If it’s only local news you’re after and you’re in the New York, Los Angeles, or Washington DC area, then you’re in luck: you can get FOX free on Tubi. The streaming service has only these three FOX channels as of now, but we won’t be surprised if more markets are added down the line since it is owned by FOX after all.
Sling’s new skinny bundle called Select includes 11 TV channels for $19.99, making it the cheapest way to get NFL Network or Fox Sports 1. This is Sling’s answer to DirecTV’s genre packs and other bundles that the cord-cutting industry is starting to offer to grapple with one reality: cord-cutting was becoming a lot like cable. Sling Select is a welcome alternative.
It's a limited add-on tier, so it won't replace a full live-TV lineup on its own.
Tablo TV is a free live TV streaming service that lets you watch local channels like ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS, as well as 70 fast channels, including HSN, ION, Grit, MeTV, and CourtTV. It’s exclusively available to those with a Tablo device—the latest already comes with a built-in indoor antenna—which itself requires a one-time payment of about $70 to $130, depending on what version you get. It’s free in the sense that you don’t have to pay a monthly subscription fee, as you would on usual live TV streaming services since it streams channels that are already airing for free via broadcast towers near you. A Tablo device lets you watch Tablo TV on up to 4 devices connected to your home Wi-fi and record shows while watching a different channel. If you’re on the go, you can also control the DVR via the Tablo TV app. You can download the app on all major smart TVs and mobile devices.
Late 2025, both ESPN and Fox launched their respective streaming services, making it difficult for sports fans to choose between them. How so, you might ask? Well, while ESPN is better known for its sports coverage, Fox also has its own sports channels, some of which have exclusive broadcast rights that ESPN doesn’t have.
Luckily for fans, they don’t have to choose one or the other. They can have both through this ESPN, Fox One bundle.
If someone were to subscribe to both individually, ESPN Unlimited monthly costs $30 while the base Fox One plan is $20/month. Combining both costs $40, letting sports fans save $10 through this bundle.
Note: As of writing, this bundle can’t be combined with the offers from Hulu and Disney+. This is only available through the ESPN and Fox websites.
The honest way to watch FOX 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 FOX, odds are you want Fox Sports 1 (FS1) too. It's a sister channel, so every service above that carries FOX carries Fox Sports 1 (FS1) as well, and the same free trials get you both. See our full guide to watching Fox Sports 1 (FS1) without cable for the per-service breakdown.
| Service | Price | Free trial | Channels covered | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fubo |
$73.99 | 7 days | 47 | Get it |
| DIRECTV |
$89.99 | 5 days | 54 | Get it |
| Hulu with Live TV |
$88.99 | 3 days | 57 | Get it |
| DirecTV MySports Skinny bundle |
$69.99 | 5 days | 16 | Get it |
| YouTube TV |
$82.99 | 7 days | 68 | Get it |
| Fox One |
$19.99 | 7 days | 4 | Get it |
| Sling TV Blue |
$50.99 | None | 35 | Get it |
| Tubi |
Free | None | 9 | Get it |
| Sling Select |
$19.99 | None | 11 | Get it |
| Tablo TV |
Free | None | 10 | Get it |
| ESPN, FOX One bundle |
$40 | None | 7 | Get it |
Cheapest is the question everyone starts with, and it's the wrong place to stop. A $35 plan that drops FOX 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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What it doesn't do is buy a place on the list. We order these services by price, by the channels they carry, and by how they hold up in actual use, and a commission has no bearing on any of it. Plenty of the services we link to get called overpriced or a pain to use right here on the page. Prices and lineups also change constantly, so it's worth checking the current numbers on the provider's own site before you sign up for anything.
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