If you’ve been meaning to catch up on The Bear, rewatch the entire MCU, or finally get through Andor without juggling multiple subscriptions, this Disney+ and Hulu promo is a pretty easy “why not” kind of deal. For a limited time, new and eligible returning subscribers can grab the ad-supported Disney+ Hulu Duo Basic bundle for just $9.99 for the first month, down from the usual $12.99. That knocks a few bucks off the regular bundle price, but the bigger story is that you’re sampling roughly $24 worth of separate services (Disney+ ad tier at $11.99 + Hulu ad tier at $11.99) for less than half of that.​

This isn’t the absolute rock-bottom offer Disney has ever run — during last year’s Black Friday window, the company briefly pushed the same bundle for $5 per month for a full year, which was frankly wild. But if you missed that or didn’t want to lock yourself in for 12 months, $9.99 for 30 days is still a nice low-commitment way to mainline the shows and movies everyone has been talking about and then decide if it deserves a permanent place on your bank statement. The key catch is that it’s only for new and “eligible returning” accounts, so if you’ve been subscribed continuously, you won’t be able to just flip a switch and get the discount.

Value-wise, the bundle works because Disney+ and Hulu feel like opposite ends of the same streaming brain. Disney+ is where all the big franchise comfort food lives: nearly every Star Wars movie and series, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pixar, animated classics, Disney Princess stuff, National Geographic documentaries and the company’s latest theatrical releases once they finish their cinema run. Hulu fills in the gaps with the adult side of your watch list: next‑day episodes from ABC and FX, a huge archive of network TV, and buzzy originals like The Bear, The Handmaid’s Tale and Only Murders in the Building that routinely pop up in award-season chatter. Put together, Duo Basic covers kids, genre nerds, reality TV, prestige drama and background sitcoms under one login, which makes it easy to pitch as a “household neutral” subscription.​

The obvious trade-off is that this is the ad-supported tier, so you’re not getting a pristine, interruption-free experience. Duo Basic includes commercials on both Disney+ and Hulu, and you lose out on some of the higher-end perks that Disney reserves for more expensive plans, like downloadable offline viewing on certain tiers. If you’re the kind of viewer who puts on a show while scrolling through your phone anyway, that might not matter; if you hate ad pods cutting into a tense Andor set-piece or a key episode of The Bear, it’s something to keep in mind before you start setting reminders to cancel. The bundle also rolls over to standard Duo Basic pricing after the first month, so unless you’re happy to keep paying $12.99 going forward, you’ll want a calendar alert on day 25 or so to decide whether you’re staying, downgrading, or hopping to another service.​

Where this promo really makes sense is as a one-month content smash-and-grab. You can easily map out a hit list: run through the latest Star Wars and Marvel series on Disney+ that you skipped when they dropped, finally stream the newer animated films you only saw in memes, and then swing over to Hulu for the current seasons of FX and ABC shows you missed live, plus a few headline originals. For cord-cutters who rely on next‑day streaming to keep up with broadcast TV, even a single discounted month can clear a backlog of “I’ll watch it later” series. For families, it’s also a cheap way to test whether the Disney+ catalog genuinely keeps kids entertained before paying full price. Factor in that the combined standalone value of both services is around $24 per month at current ad-tier pricing and paying $9.99 to try the bundle for 30 days lands firmly in no‑brainer territory, as long as you walk in knowing the ads are part of the package and the discount timer starts ticking the minute you hit subscribe.

Disclaimer: Prices and promotions mentioned in this article are accurate at the time of writing and are subject to change based on the retailers’ discretion. Please verify the current offer before making a purchase.