Comparison

Crave | Watch HBO and STARZ Movies and TV Shows Online vs Netflix

Crave | Watch HBO and STARZ Movies and TV Shows Online and Netflix both land on Depends.

Crave | Watch HBO and STARZ Movies and TV Shows Online

Depends

Confidence: Low

Buy it if you are a Canadian household that wants HBO and STARZ in one ~$13/month subscription.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy for your household if you want originals like 'Squid Game' and can live with the $6.99 ad tier; skip if you only watch titles on rival services.

Crave | Watch HBO and STARZ Movies and TV Shows Online versus Netflix
Compare	Crave \| Watch HBO and STARZ Movies and TV Shows Online	Netflix
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Canadian households wanting HBO and STARZ	Binge-watchers of Netflix originals
Who it's not for	Businesses or teams . this is consumer entertainment, not software	Anyone evaluating business software . this is consumer TV, full stop
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁷	Mature platform with a public security page, but hit by a 2024 leak of unaired episodes and ongoing credential-phishing campaigns targeting its 275M+ users.¹⁴
Support quality	No evidence in sources	No support evidence in sources
Public sentiment	No credible user reviews surfaced; most search results were SEO spam aggregator pages.	Public sources reviewed are mostly listings and news; substantive verbatim user sentiment was too thin to quote.
Biggest gotcha	Premium subscription price rises from $12.99 on May 12, 2025^⁶	The $6.99 plan includes ads; paying more is the only way to remove them