Sling TV has ended its Day Pass, Weekend Pass and Week Pass, and the company’s own pages now say plainly that Sling Passes are no longer available. For anyone who bought a $4.99 Sling Day Pass to catch one game or one news night, the cheapest door into live TV is now closed. What is left is a monthly bill, even if you only wanted a single evening.
TL;DR: Sling TV stopped selling its short-term passes, which started at $4.99 for 24 hours and topped out at $14.99 for a week. Sling has not named a direct replacement. The cheapest way back into live TV is now a monthly plan starting at $19.99, which you can cancel after the one event you wanted.
What Sling actually ended
Sling launched the passes on August 12, 2025, with a $4.99 Day Pass, a $9.99 Weekend Pass and a $14.99 Week Pass. A 3 Day Pass at $9.99 followed later. All of them were contract free and did not renew on their own.
Sling’s page says it looks forward to “continuing to innovate and showing our customers new ways to experience the content they love.” Nothing in that wording points to a specific successor.
| Pass | Price | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Day Pass | $4.99 | 24 hours |
| 3 Day Pass | $9.99 | Any three days in a row |
| Week Pass | $14.99 | 7 days |
That table is the whole product, and it is gone. The more interesting question is why it went.
Why the Sling Day Pass was always under pressure
Programmers are typically paid per subscriber, so a customer who watches for 24 hours looks very different on a carriage contract than one who stays for a month. The Desk reports that Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery both sued Dish Network, arguing the passes sold their channels outside conventional monthly plans.
A federal court had let the passes continue in November 2025, and Sling marked that with a limited $1 Day Pass promotion in late November 2025. Sling has not said whether the lawsuits drove this decision, so treat the connection as likely rather than confirmed.
The passes also had a strangely generous channel list for the price, which helps explain the interest from the networks.
What a $4.99 Day Pass used to include
Every pass came with 34 channels from Sling Orange, including ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS, CNN, AMC, HGTV, Food Network and Disney Channel. It also included free Cloud DVR with 50 hours of recording and the option of $1 to $3 add-on packs for sports, news or kids programming.
Picture a Saturday with a big college game and a friend who has no cable. Five dollars covered it, with no contract and no reminder to cancel afterward. That is the use case that has no clean substitute now.
The cheapest ways to watch live TV now
Sling’s own site currently lists Sling Essentials (ESPN and more) and Sling Select (Fox News and more) at $19.99 a month each, and Sling Orange or Blue at $45.99 a month. Sling also advertises 600+ free live channels through Freestream, though those do not replace the sports and cable brands the passes carried.
If you only need one event, a $19.99 monthly plan that you cancel afterward costs about four times what the old Day Pass did. That gap matters more than the headline suggests. Our cheapest streaming bundle guide covers how to build a cheaper setup around two services rather than five.
What to do if you only want one game
Check whether the event streams somewhere you already pay for before buying anything new. A month of Sling Essentials or Select works for a single event if you set a cancellation reminder the same day you sign up.
Neither Sling’s page nor The Desk spells out how unexpired passes are handled, so anyone holding one should check the Sling help center.
The bigger picture is that short-term streaming access is getting harder to find. Whatever Sling builds next will matter more to casual viewers than another monthly bundle would.
