How Much Does Covenant Eyes Cost? Pricing, What's Included, and Cheaper Alternatives

Straight answer, as of mid-2026, from Covenant Eyes' own pricing page:

• Monthly: $18/month
• Annual: $198/year (about 10% off monthly)
• Lifetime: $950 one-time
• Every plan covers up to 10 family members on unlimited devices, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Signing up through the Apple or Google app stores costs slightly more than the website.

Prices change, so treat these as the shape of the deal rather than gospel, but Covenant Eyes has sat in the $16 to $19 per month range for years.

What you're actually paying for

Covenant Eyes is an accountability service, not primarily a blocker. The subscription pays for screen monitoring across your devices, AI review of that activity, and periodic reports sent to an ally, a person you choose. Filtering exists, but the product is visibility: the deterrent is that someone you respect will see.

That model explains the price. You're funding continuous monitoring infrastructure and family-wide coverage, and if that's what you need, the price is defensible: it's one of the most mature products in the category, and a household of ten sharing one plan works out cheap per person.

When it's not worth $18 a month

• You're one person, not a family. You're paying for ten seats and using one. Solo users subsidize the family plan.
• You don't have an ally, or don't want one. Without a person receiving the reports, the core mechanism is switched off and you're paying full price for a filter. The alternatives guide covers this situation in depth.
• You want blocking, not reporting. If your goal is "the sites don't load", a dedicated blocker is more direct and usually cheaper.

Cheaper alternatives, by what you actually need

Same ally model, lower price: Ever Accountable. The closest like-for-like swap: activity reports to a trusted person, typically at a lower price point than Covenant Eyes. If the model works for you and only the bill doesn't, start here.

Family filtering: Canopy. Around $8 to $10 per month billed annually depending on device count, with real-time content filtering built for parents managing kids' devices. Strong at that job; weaker as self-accountability, for reasons covered in our Canopy alternatives guide.

Solo self-accountability: Pledgely. If you're quitting for yourself and the ally model is exactly what you're avoiding, Pledgely replaces the human with a financial consequence. It blocks porn system-wide on Android through a local VPN, incognito and every browser included, and nothing you browse is monitored or reported to anyone. You attach a daily pledge of $1 to $100: switch the blocker off and it's charged, keep it on and every daily hold is released back to your card. The subscription is priced for one person doing one job, and the deterrent is money you chose yourself instead of a person you have to recruit.

The comparison that matters more than price

Whatever you pick, ask what happens at the moment you try to turn it off, because that moment is where every blocker succeeds or fails. With Covenant Eyes, a person finds out. With a parental filter, whoever holds the password decides, and if that's you, nothing happens. With Pledgely, it costs you the exact amount you decided would hurt. Pay for the off-switch consequence you actually believe in, at whatever price that comes.

Next: Covenant Eyes alternatives: what to pick if partner reports aren't for you