Compare our IPTV plans side by side

When you compare IPTV plans, the temptation is to pick the pack with the largest figures and stop there. That is rarely the right move. A catalogue only has value if you watch it, and 4K only has value if your screen, your device and your connection can show it. This page puts our three packs, Premium, VIP Premium and Ultimate 4K, side by side on the criteria that actually change your evenings, then gives you a method to decide when the table alone does not settle it.

ClearPick IPTV sells all three packs, so we gain nothing by steering you toward one in particular. Our interest is that you pick the pack you will still be happy with in month six. Everything below uses only the figures we publish, with no rounding up and no claims we cannot back. Where something is not stated, we say so rather than fill the gap.

Compare IPTV plans: the master table

Here are the three packs on one screen. Read it once from top to bottom, then come back to the one or two rows that matter most for your home.

Two rows deserve a second look straight away. On series, VIP Premium holds the most, ahead of Ultimate 4K, with Premium third. On movies, Ultimate 4K holds the most, ahead of VIP Premium. So the pack with the largest channel figure is not the largest on every line, and the right choice depends on which line matches your habits. Prices are left out of this table deliberately. They can change, and an old figure would mislead you; see current prices on the plans and prices page.

How to read the table without being misled

Catalogue figures are useful, but they are easy to misread. A few habits keep the comparison honest, whether you are looking at our packs or at anyone else’s. The most important is to treat each row as an answer to a specific question about your evenings, not as a score in a race.

A common misreading is to assume that a higher channel figure means more of what you personally watch. It might, but it might not. A household that watches a handful of French-language news and family channels will not notice the difference between thousands of extra channels it never opens. A household that explores international content in several languages may notice it a great deal. The table cannot tell you which household you are; your viewing notes can.

If you have no viewing notes yet, a week of jotting down what you actually watch each evening, live, series or film, gives you a far better basis than any guess.

The other common misreading concerns 4K. All three packs list 4K, but Ultimate 4K is the one built around a 4K channel line-up. If your screen is not 4K, or your line cannot carry 25 Mbps for that screen, the 4K rows matter far less than they appear to.

The three packs at a glance

Here are the packs in card form, with the figures we publish and a one-line summary of who each one is built for. The highlighted card is not a recommendation for everyone; it simply marks the pack that sits in the middle of the range and covers the widest mix of habits in one household.

If you only remember one sentence from this page, make it this one: Premium for breadth on any screen, VIP Premium for series and shared households, Ultimate 4K for a large 4K screen with a line that keeps up. The sections below explain each part of that sentence and when it does not apply.

Live channels: breadth versus 4K line-up

Live viewing is where most households start. News in the morning, a live event in the evening, background TV while cooking. On this row, the packs differ in two ways: the size of the line-up and the picture it is built around.

Whatever the pack, a large live line-up is only pleasant to use if you organize it. Every player we point to, from IPTV Smarters Pro to TiviMate, lets you build a favourites list, and the TV guide makes browsing far easier once it is aligned with your time zone. Our guide to setting up the IPTV TV guide shows how. In practice, most households end up using a few dozen favourites daily, which is another reason not to choose purely on the size of the channel figure.

There is also a practical side to a very large line-up: the first load inside the player takes longer, and scrolling through categories on a TV remote can feel slow on older devices. That is not a reason to avoid a larger pack, but it is a reason to spend ten minutes on day one hiding categories you will never open and pinning the ones you will. A tidy list on a large pack is more pleasant than a messy list on a small one.

Series and movies: where the depth sits

On demand is where the packs differ most, and where the “biggest pack” assumption breaks down. The figures below are the on-demand highlights of each pack, taken straight from the master table.

A word of caution on libraries this size: no figure tells you whether a particular title or a particular language is present. The catalogue includes French-language and international content across all three packs. If you need something specific, a language in particular, ask support before ordering. A one-line question saves you choosing a pack on an assumption.

It also helps to think about how your household uses on-demand content over a whole season rather than a single week. A family that binges a long series in winter and switches to films in summer may feel short on one row for part of the year. In that case, the pack that is solid on both rows, rather than the leader on one, is often the more comfortable choice across the seasons.

Picture quality: who really needs Ultimate 4K

Premium and VIP Premium stream in HD, Full HD and 4K depending on the source. Ultimate 4K is the pack built around a 4K channel line-up. But a 4K pack on a setup that cannot show 4K gives you nothing extra. Three things have to line up: the screen, the device and the connection.

These figures add up when other people in your home are online. A 4K stream on a busy evening, with phones and laptops also drawing on the line, needs comfortable headroom above 25 Mbps. If your speed test sits close to the limit, Full HD on any pack will usually look cleaner than a 4K stream that keeps adjusting. That is the honest reason we do not suggest Ultimate 4K to everyone: on the wrong setup, Premium or VIP Premium in Full HD gives a better evening.

The 4K gate: four checks before choosing Ultimate

Before you pick Ultimate 4K, walk through these four checks in order. If any one fails, the 4K channel line-up loses most of its value in your home, and one of the other packs is usually the better buy until you fix that link.

The most common failure is the third check. A line that tests well in the afternoon can sag in the evening, especially on Wi-Fi in a room far from the router. Run the speed test at your real viewing hour, from the TV room, twice. If the result is marginal, a cable to the TV or a move to the 5 GHz band near the router often fixes it. If the second check is the problem, our hub on the best devices for IPTV compares boxes and sticks that handle 4K output.

Matching packs to households

Here is how we would match the packs to common household profiles. Use it as a starting point, then adjust to your own habits. The “why” column matters more than the suggestion itself: if the reason does not apply to you, the suggestion does not either.

Household profiles are a shortcut, not a rule. A couple who mostly watch live channels may still prefer VIP Premium if one of them follows several long-running series, and a film lover with an HD set may be perfectly happy on Premium’s 100,000+ movies. Use the profile that sounds closest as a first guess, then test it against the three things you watch most. If the profile and your list disagree, trust the list.

Strengths and limits of each pack

Every pack is a trade-off. Here are the honest pros and cons of each, written the way we would want them written if we were the buyer. None of the limits is a defect; each is simply a reason the pack may not be the one for your home.

Premium

VIP Premium

Ultimate 4K

What stays the same on every pack

Whichever pack you choose, the essentials do not change. This is worth knowing because it means the decision is purely about catalogue and picture; you never trade away support, payment terms or device choice by picking a smaller pack.

We are independent from app publishers. Some players ask for a licence of their own; check the current price on the app’s official website. For payment details, see our guide to paying for IPTV in Canada.

Because these rows are identical, they should never be the reason you pick a bigger pack. If you find yourself leaning toward a larger pack “to be safe” on support or devices, stop and reread this list: you get the same safety net on all three. The only things a bigger pack changes are the catalogue rows and the picture focus, so judge it on those alone.

How to compare IPTV plans in six steps

Tables help, but your home is specific. Run through these steps before you decide. They take a quarter of an hour at most, and they replace a guess with a short chain of evidence.

1. Measure your connection. Run a speed test at your usual viewing hour, in the TV room. Compare the result with 10, 15 or 25 Mbps per screen.
2. Check your screen and device. If your main TV or its device is not 4K, the case for Ultimate 4K is weak.
3. List your habits. Write down the three things you watch most. Live channels, series or movies: which takes most of your time?
4. Read the matching row. Go back to the master table and look only at the row that matches your main habit.
5. Ask about language. If you need a specific language, ask support before ordering.
6. Pick a duration. Start with the 1-month IPTV subscription if unsure, or the 12-month IPTV subscription for the lowest cost per month once you are sure.

One last step is easy to skip and worth doing: show the shortlist to everyone who shares the main TV. The person who chooses the pack is not always the person who watches the most, and a five-minute conversation at the kitchen table often reveals a habit, such as a weekly series or a language, that changes the answer. A pack chosen together is a pack nobody grumbles about in month three.

Compare IPTV plans with a tie-breaker sheet

Sometimes two packs look equally right, usually Premium and VIP Premium for a mixed home, or VIP Premium and Ultimate 4K for a film-loving household with a 4K set. When that happens, score each pack on the five lines below with 0, 1 or 2 points, based on your own home rather than on the size of the figures.

The pack with the higher total wins the tie. If the totals are still level, choose the smaller pack for your first order and move up at the next one if you feel short. Moving up is easy because there is no contract; moving down after a long plan means living with unused depth until the end date.

Three worked comparisons

To show the method in action, here are three invented households working through the comparison. They are not customers and their details are made up; what matters is the reasoning, which you can copy line for line with your own situation.

A single viewer in a Halifax apartment

He watches live news and a few international channels on a Full HD TV, plus the odd film at the weekend. His speed test at night shows a little over 15 Mbps on Wi-Fi. The 4K gate fails at the first check, since the TV is not 4K, so Ultimate 4K drops out at once. Between Premium and VIP Premium, the tie-breaker favours Premium: his main habit is live viewing, which both packs cover, and he rarely watches series. Premium on a 1-month plan, to confirm the Wi-Fi holds at busy hours, is the sensible start.

A family of five in the suburbs

Two parents who like films, three children who watch series, one main 4K TV and a wired box in the family room. The line tests well above 25 Mbps at night. Here the tie-breaker is close between VIP Premium and Ultimate 4K. Ultimate 4K scores higher on screen fit and on movies; VIP Premium scores higher on the “second viewer” line, because the children’s series habit is the household’s biggest single use. With totals level, they take VIP Premium first and plan to try Ultimate 4K at the next order if the parents feel the films are where the evenings go.

A film enthusiast with a projector room

She built a small home theatre with a 4K projector, a 4K-capable box on HDMI 2.1 and a cable straight from the router. Her line has plenty of headroom. Every gate check passes, her main habit is movies and she watches alone. Ultimate 4K wins the tie-breaker outright, scoring 2 on main habit, screen fit and line fit. Because her setup is already proven with another service, a longer duration makes sense from the first order.

Notice that the largest pack won only once, and only in the home built for it. In the other two, a smaller pack matched the household more closely, which is the whole point of comparing by habit instead of by headline figure.

Pack and duration, chosen together

The pack and the duration are separate choices, but they interact. A pack you are sure of deserves a longer duration; a pack you are unsure of deserves a short one. This table shows how the two decisions fit together.

All durations of all packs are paid once in Canadian dollars by card or PayPal. See current prices on the plans page and divide each total by its number of months to compare like with like.

Changing pack between orders

Because there is no contract and no automatic renewal, every new order is a fresh choice. Many households start on one pack and settle on another after real use. The timeline below shows a typical path from a first order to a settled choice.

1. First order

   Start modestly

   Choose the pack that matches your main habit, often Premium, on a short duration.

2. First weeks

   Note what runs short

   Write down when you looked for series or films and could not find enough, or when the picture held you back.

3. Before the end date

   Run the tie-breaker

   Score your current pack against the next one up, using your notes rather than the headline figures.

4. Next order

   Switch or stay

   Order the pack that won, on a longer duration if everything else in your setup is proven.

The timeline works in the other direction too. If your notes show that you barely touched the series library on VIP Premium, or rarely watched in 4K on Ultimate 4K, your next order can step down to Premium with no penalty. A pack that fits your real use is better value than a bigger one that sits idle.

If you want to change pack before your current plan ends, write to support first and they will explain your options. For the full ordering process, see the payment guide.

Mistakes when you compare IPTV plans

Most comparison mistakes come from reading the table as a ranking instead of a menu. Each of the habits below leads to a pack that looks right on paper and feels wrong on the sofa.

• Choosing on the channel figure alone, without checking the series and movie rows.
• Buying Ultimate 4K for an HD bedroom set or a line that tests below 25 Mbps at night.
• Assuming a bigger pack adds screens; every pack includes 1 simultaneous connection.
• Assuming a language is included because the catalogue is large; ask support instead.
• Comparing a long plan of one pack with a short plan of another, which mixes two decisions.
• Deciding for the whole household without asking the people who watch most.

Deep dive: why we do not rank our own packs

We could label one pack the winner, but it would be misleading. Each pack leads on a different row: VIP Premium on series, Ultimate 4K on movies and 4K channels, Premium on being a balanced base at the entry point of the range. A single ranking would hide exactly the information you need. The honest answer is a match, not a medal, and the table and tie-breaker sheet on this page are built to find that match for your home.

Questions to put to support before you choose

Some answers are not in any table. When your decision hinges on one of them, a short message to support is quicker and more reliable than any amount of reading. Support answers seven days a week by e-mail and WhatsApp at +33 6 44 65 43 13, in English and French. These are the questions that most often settle a close comparison.

• Is a specific language I watch available, and in which pack?
• Which player do you suggest for my exact TV or box?
• Can my household have a second simultaneous screen, and on what conditions?
• What quality should I start with, given the speed I measured?
• If I start on one pack, how does changing at my next order work?

The question you ask before paying is the cheapest part of any comparison.

Put the details of your setup in the message: the TV or device, the player you prefer, your speed test result and the language you need. A precise question gets a precise answer, and the reply itself tells you something useful about how the team works before you depend on it.

Terms used in this comparison

A few words appear again and again on pack pages and in the table above. Knowing exactly what each means makes the comparison sharper.

Live channels

Channels that play in real time, organized in the player’s channel list and TV guide.

Series

On-demand shows organized by season and episode, played whenever you like.

Movies

On-demand films in the player’s movie section.

4K channels

Live channels delivered in 4K resolution, the focus of the Ultimate 4K Pack.

Simultaneous connection

One stream playing at a time on one set of credentials. Each pack includes 1.

Duration

1, 3, 6 or 12 months, paid once, with no renewal.

Headroom

Spare speed above what your streams need, so the TV is not starved at busy hours.

For the bigger picture behind these terms, our guide to what IPTV is explains how live channels and on-demand libraries reach your screen.

Where to go next

You have the table, the reading rules, the 4K gate, the household matches and the tie-breaker. These pages continue the decision.

FAQ

Which pack has the most series?

VIP Premium, with 61,000+ series. Ultimate 4K follows with 47,000+, then Premium with 24,000+.

Which pack has the most movies?

Ultimate 4K, with 179,000+ movies. VIP Premium offers 155,000+ and Premium 100,000+.

Which pack has the most live channels?

Ultimate 4K lists 57,000+ 4K channels. VIP Premium lists 27,000+ channels and Premium 20,000+.

Do bigger packs include more screens?

No. Every pack includes 1 simultaneous connection. More simultaneous screens are available only on request through support.

Can I watch 4K on Premium or VIP Premium?

Yes. Both stream in HD, Full HD and 4K depending on the source. Ultimate 4K is the pack built specifically around 4K channels.

Do all packs include French-language content?

Yes. All three include French-language and international content. For a specific language, ask support before ordering.

Why are there no prices in this comparison?

Prices can change, and an outdated figure would mislead you. See current prices on the plans page and on each pack page.

Which pack should a first-time buyer choose?

Usually Premium on a short duration. It is a sensible base to judge stability, the player and the catalogue before moving up.

Can I change pack later?

Yes. There is no contract, so you can choose a different pack at your next order. Ask support if you want to discuss a change sooner.

What speed do I need for Ultimate 4K?

Plan for about 25 Mbps for each 4K screen, measured at peak hours, with headroom for other devices in the home.