Nobody wants to be the parent who cancelled the safety plan the month before something happened. That thought, more than the money, keeps a lot of Life360 subscriptions running. Before you decide, it helps to know what the Life360 cost actually pays for, because most of it isn’t the map.
The old mapmakers sold their maps cheaply. What cost a traveller real money was the escort: the armed rider who went with you on the road, and the promise to pay if you were robbed on it. Life360’s pricing works the same way. The family map is on every plan, including the free one. The Life360 cost you see on the upgrade screen is the price of the escort.
The short answer: Life360’s free plan is a live family map for the whole circle. Its paid plans, Silver, Gold and Platinum, cost $9.99, $16.99 and $24.99 a month in the US (October 2026), cover everyone in the circle, and add driving, roadside and insurance-style cover rather than a better map.
How much does Life360 cost in 2026?
Life360 costs $0 on the free plan and $9.99 to $24.99 a month on the paid plans in the US, according to Life360’s pricing page on 27 October 2026. Paying yearly saves about 17%, and every paid plan starts with a seven-day free trial that renews automatically unless you cancel.
| Plan | US price a month | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Live map for the whole circle, 2 place alerts, 2 days of history, family driving summary |
| Silver | $9.99 | Crash detection, 7 days of history, 5 places with unlimited alerts |
| Gold | $16.99 | Roadside assistance with towing up to 5 miles, emergency dispatch, individual driver reports, 30 days of history, unlimited places |
| Platinum | $24.99 | Towing up to 50 miles, identity-theft coverage, larger reimbursements for a stolen phone or stolen funds |
The price is per circle, not per person. Life360’s own FAQ says the paid benefits cover all the family members in your circle. “Life360 cost per person” is a common search, so to say it plainly: a family of six pays what a family of three pays.
The directory sites that still rank for this question list Silver at $4.99 and Gold at $9.99. Those numbers are years old. Check the date on any price you read, including ours.
Life360 cost in the UK and Australia
Life360 charges less in the UK and Australia than a straight currency conversion of the US prices would suggest. On the UK pricing page in October 2026, Silver was £6.99 a month, Gold £9.99 and Platinum £19.99. The Australian page listed A$9.99, A$15.99 and A$29.99.
Both pages offer a yearly toggle marked “Save 31%”, so in those two countries paying annually makes a bigger difference than in the US. The free plan looks the same everywhere: the map, two place alerts, two days of history. The roadside terms differ by country, so read your own country’s page before you count on a tow.
Why your Life360 bill went up
Life360’s US prices for Silver and Gold rose in the last year. A third-party tracker, PriceTimeline, recorded Silver at $7.99 and Gold at $14.99 a month in September 2025. In October 2026 Life360’s own page shows $9.99 and $16.99. That’s about a quarter more for Silver and an eighth more for Gold. Platinum stayed at $24.99.
Whatever you signed up at, the number that matters is on your last App Store or Google Play receipt. One reviewer on Trustpilot described being charged twice after moving from an older Silver plan to Gold mid-year, then being sent to Apple to sort it out. If you are switching tiers, screenshot what you were paying first.
What the free plan already gives you
The Life360 free plan gives the whole circle a live family map, two place alerts and two days of location history, with no time limit. It isn’t a trial. For a family that mostly opens the app to see whether someone’s home yet or still at practice, the free plan already does that part.
Two place alerts is the real limit. Home and school are two. Add a second school, a grandparent’s house or a parent’s office and you’re past it. That’s the most ordinary reason to pay for Silver, and it has nothing to do with driving. (Place alerts are geofences; here’s how geofencing works.)
What you’re paying for on Silver, Gold and Platinum
Silver, Gold and Platinum pay for an escort on the road and an insurer behind it. Almost everything the paid tiers add is about cars, emergencies or theft.
Crash detection (Silver and up). The phone senses a likely crash and alerts the circle; Gold adds emergency dispatch. Before you pay for this, check your phone. iPhone 14 and later can detect a severe crash and call for help on their own, and Pixel phones have Car Crash Detection in supported countries.
Roadside assistance (Gold and up). Life360’s roadside page lists towing up to 5 miles on Gold and up to 50 miles on Platinum. Five miles reaches a garage in town and not much further. Life360’s service terms also limit how many free call-outs each paid circle gets a year, and one Trustpilot reviewer found that out only when the car broke down. If your car insurance or a motoring club already covers breakdowns, this is a second escort riding next to the first.
Driver reports (Gold and up). Individual driving reports for each driver in the circle. This is the part some teenagers resent most, and the part some parents of new drivers value most. Both reactions are fair.
Insurance-style cover (mostly Platinum). Identity-theft coverage, and higher limits for a stolen phone or stolen funds. Worth comparing against what your bank or home insurance already includes.
Is Life360 worth paying for?
Life360’s paid plans are worth it for a family with a new driver and no other breakdown or crash cover. For everyone else, three questions settle it.
- Is anyone in the family newly driving? If not, most of Gold and Platinum is cover for a road nobody in the circle is on yet.
- Do your phones and your car insurance already do this? A recent iPhone or Pixel detects crashes; many insurers include breakdown cover. Pay once, not twice.
- Do you need more than two place alerts? If that’s the only gap, Silver covers it, and so do other apps, some of them for less.
If all three answers are no, the free plan is enough, or you don’t need Life360 at all. If you do have a new driver, Gold is a reasonable price for what it bundles, and we’d say so even though we don’t sell anything like it.
If the map is what you actually use
If the map is the only thing you open the app for, you can keep it without paying for the escort. An all-iPhone family has Find My at no cost; we’ve compared it fairly in Protego vs Apple Find My. A family with both kinds of phone can use Google Maps location sharing, which we walk through in how to share location between iPhone and Android. For more choices, see our free family tracking apps roundup and the Life360 alternatives guide, sorted by why people leave.
Where we fit
We make a family location app, so read this part knowing that.
Protego is a family GPS location app for iPhone and Android that shows a family circle on a parchment-style map; it is free to download and free for a circle of two. It’s the map without the escort: no driving reports, no roadside bundle, just everyone you love on one sheet of parchment, each person a portrait in a scalloped frame with a ribbon label.
Your family, together on one map
A GPS locator for the whole family, on a map that feels like magic.
What changes, in plain terms: you pay nothing for a circle of two, and for a bigger family or for wards, our place alerts, there’s a paid plan. The circle is mutual by design, so parents appear on the map too and nobody is watched in secret. We don’t sell location data. iPhone and Android sit in the same circle.
What we don’t do, so you know before you switch: Protego has no crash detection and no roadside assistance. If you have a new driver and those are why you pay Life360, keep paying Life360. Our full Protego vs Life360 comparison lays out the rest.
Before you cancel or downgrade
Cancel in the place you subscribed. A Life360 plan bought through the App Store or Google Play is cancelled in that store’s subscription settings, and Google Play’s help page is blunt that uninstalling the app won’t cancel the subscription. Cancel a trial a day early, not on the last evening.
Then tell the family before anything changes on their screens. A teenager who has lived with driver reports will notice when they stop, and it’s a better conversation if you start it.
The bottom line
Life360’s cost is $0 for the map and $9.99 to $24.99 a month in the US for the escort: crash detection, roadside help, driver reports and insurance-style cover, one plan for the whole circle. Pay for the escort if someone in your family is on the road and nothing else covers them. If not, keep the map and keep the money.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Life360 cost a month? In the US, Life360’s pricing page listed Silver at $9.99 a month, Gold at $16.99 and Platinum at $24.99 in October 2026, with a free plan below them. Paying yearly saves about 17%. In the UK the paid plans were £6.99, £9.99 and £19.99 a month.
Is Life360 free? Yes, Life360 has a free plan. It shows everyone in the circle on the live map and includes two place alerts and two days of location history. Crash detection, roadside assistance and the insurance-style extras are on the paid plans.
Is Life360 Gold worth it? Life360 Gold is worth it mainly for families with a new driver who have no other roadside cover. It adds roadside assistance, emergency dispatch, individual driver reports and unlimited place alerts. If your phone already detects crashes and your car insurance covers breakdowns, much of Gold is duplicated.
Does Life360 charge per person? No. Life360’s FAQ says the Silver, Gold and Platinum benefits cover all the family members in your circle, so one plan is paid once for the circle. The price is the same whether the circle has three people or six.
What is the difference between Life360 Silver, Gold and Platinum? Silver adds crash detection, seven days of history and five places with unlimited alerts. Gold adds roadside assistance with towing up to 5 miles, emergency dispatch, driver reports and unlimited places. Platinum adds 50 miles of towing, identity-theft coverage and larger reimbursement limits.