Three euro cards, and the two-year figure we could not re-read

The full euro grid, screen by screen

Trimix organises plans by number of simultaneous screens and by term. Reduced to a monthly rate, the structure becomes legible:

• One screen, 3 months (14 September 2026): €29.99 — about €10 a month
• One screen, 6 months (14 September 2026): €39.99 — about €6.67 a month
• One screen, 12 months (14 September 2026): €59.99 — about €5 a month
• One screen, 24 months (August 2026 reading, not on the three cards today): €89.99
• Two- and three-screen years (August 2026): €89.99 and €139.99 — ask before treating those as current

Where the discount is real and where it is a bet

On the cards we can stand behind today, a French buyer pays €59.99 for a year of one screen, or about €5 a month. That is still cheap against a cable bill. It is no longer the €4 headline that used to depend on a two-year prepayment.

The August multi-screen grid made extra streams expensive: a three-screen year at €139.99 against a single-screen year at €49.99. Those family figures were not on the three homepage cards we were sent on 14 September, so we are not going to pretend they are current. If you need more than one stream, get the price in writing.

The 24-month plan is in the same bucket. In August it was €89.99 and it was the only way to reach roughly €4 a month. It was not on the three cards today. Even if support still sells it, two years is a long prepayment to an unregulated seller. We would not make that bet for a saving of a euro or two a month.

Two catalogues on one homepage

Reading the site closely turns up something we did not expect. The hero section advertises more than 162,000 films and 26,000 series. The plan cards, further down the same page, state 120,000 films and series. Those are not the same claim, and both are live on the same site.

We are not going to guess which one is intended, because the interesting part is not the discrepancy itself but what it demonstrates. These figures are not counted from an inventory that could be queried; if they were, two places on one page could not disagree. They are marketing inputs, written at different times by different hands, and nobody reconciled them because nothing depends on them being right.

That is consistent with what we found across the whole set. Two unrelated providers advertise exactly 61,000 channels. Another uses a trademarked feature name character-for-character identical to one on our own site. Claims range from 20,000 to 61,000 channels and 40,000 to 200,000 titles with no audited list published by anyone, anywhere.

The practical instruction is short. Ignore the catalogue figures entirely, on every site including ours, and decide on the things that can be checked: the price of the exact term and screen count you need, the payment method, and how the service behaves on a busy evening. Our provider checklist covers those in order.

The advantage a French buyer should actually weigh

Trimix prices in euros with no currency selector, and for a buyer in France that is a genuine, quantifiable benefit rather than a branding cue.

When you pay a dollar-priced service from a euro account, two costs appear. The conversion happens at whatever rate applies that day, which you do not control, and most cards add a foreign-transaction fee on top — commonly around 3 per cent, though it varies by issuer and is worth checking on your own card. Neither is large on a €50 purchase, but both are real and neither is advertised.

A euro price also means the figure you agreed to is the figure on your statement, which makes a dispute simpler if you ever need one. That is a small but genuine point in Trimix's favour that has nothing to do with channel lineups, and it is the kind of thing a French-language storefront is actually good evidence of — unlike claims about French channel coverage, which no sales page can substantiate.

Our France guide sets out what to verify on a French connection, including the channels most likely to be missing and how to check the programme guide is accurate rather than decorative.

Which Trimix plan makes sense, and which do not

For a French buyer wanting one screen and willing to commit for a year, Trimix at €59.99 is a reasonable, straightforwardly priced option, and paying in euros saves you a conversion and a card fee. That is a real advantage we cannot match.

Two things we would still avoid. A 24-month prepayment, if support still offers one, because a small monthly saving does not justify two years with an unregulated seller. And any multi-screen quote you cannot see on the homepage — get that figure in writing before you treat August's family prices as current.

Smartiflix's case for a French household rests on flexibility rather than price: a one-month entry at $14 that lets you test before committing anything substantial, published prices for two, three and four simultaneous connections, and a named-domain list to check a checkout page against. Set against that, you are paying a conversion fee for the ability to find out cheaply. Which trade is better depends on how confident you already are, and the full grid lets you do that arithmetic yourself.