How to Get Peacock for Free With Xfinity or Instacart in 2024

Peacock Premium Military Discount

Down from the usual price of $7.99 per month, military folk can instead pay a reduced monthly price of $2.99 per month for Peacock Premium. Like with the student discount however, this is only valid for a year before your subscription will roll over onto the standard price so do be mindful of this.

How to Get Peacock for Free With Xfinity

There's a number of ways to get Peacock Premium for free if you're an Xfinity subscriber. There's a handy table over here detailing things (as well as this page on Peacock's own site) or if you'd rather digest this information in paragraph form, you can continue reading and save yourself a needless click.

Add Xfinity Gig-Speed or Faster Internet

As you may already be aware, Xfinity offers a range of different services of which TV and streaming options are a part of. Free Peacock Premium is one perk that comes with these but there are a variety of ways to qualify for this, some more straightforward and practical than others depending on how long you've been an Xfinity customer.

If you're a new or existing Xfinity Internet customer that opts for their Gigabit or higher speed service, subscribers can get access to the streaming service for two years. However, the fine print tells us that after two years it will terminate "unless you elect to continue receiving the service." We can infer from this that you can actually continue beyond two years if you opt to do so although fine print is always subject to change so whether or not this remains an option when you'll actually need it cannot be guaranteed.

Be in the Xfinity Rewards Platinum or Diamond Tier

If you're a long-time subscriber of Xfinity, you'll be encouraged to know that your loyalty has been rewarded in the form of free Peacock. Firstly, you'll need to be a member of Xfinity Rewards. Secondly, you must be either in the Diamond or Platinum tier with any level of Xfinity internet.

If you're either of those then congratulations, free Peacock is yours! But if you're not, then you should know in order to actually reach those tiers, you'll need to have been a member for 7-14 years or more than 14 years, respectively, for the Diamond and Platinum levels. In other words, this approach for free Peacock with Xfinity is highly specific and likely not to be the most fruitful method for most but hey, it's a nice bonus for the faithful.

Get NOW TV

NOW TV features not only on-demand offerings but also live viewing from more than 40 channels. Conveniently, if you're a NOW TV customer you may also be eligible for Peacock Premium to be included as part of your service.

Have Xfinity Internet and Select TV Boxes

If you're a new customer with Xfinity Internet and an X1 TV Box, Flex streaming TV Box, or a Xumo Stream Box from Xfinity, you can redeem an offer for Peacock Premium at no additional cost; but note you'll only get six months for free using this approach. It's better than nothing but after half a year you'll be back to figuring out the best way to mooch off Peacock once again.

Finally, if you're worried that getting Peacock through Xfinity means you'll only be able to watch via set top box, be assured that this is not the case.

How to Get Peacock for Free With Instacart

As very helpfully laid out in our prior Peacock free trial article, here's how to go about getting Peacock for free with Instacart.

1. Navigate to the Instacart+ page.

2. Click "Try free for 2 weeks."
3. Follow the instructions to finish signing up.

Now that you're signed up for Instacart+, you can activate your Peacock Premium access by doing the following:

1. Open the navigation menu and click "Your Instacart+ membership" to see benefits.
2. You should see "Peacock" under benefits with a button that says "Learn more."
3. Click "Learn more" and you should see a popup that says "Activate Peacock now."
4. Click the "Activate" button and follow the directions.
5. Once you've successfully activated your account, the popup should look like this:

The World Elite MasterCard Approach

There's another way to get free Instacart+ time and therefore free Peacock time. If you have an eligible World or World Elite MasterCard, you can get two months of Instacart+ for free. But it's quite important to note that you won't be eligible for this avenue if you're already an active subscriber so opting for the two week free trial above will rule you out of this MasterCard based approach. Choose wisely!

FAQs on Getting Peacock Through Xfinity or Instacart

Who Is Eligible to Get Free Peacock?

The bad news is that Peacock doesn't offer any free trials directly but the good news is that there are ways around this. If you're already an Instacart+ member then free Peacock Premium is already yours — you just need to activate it via the above steps. If you aren't, you can stack a free trial of it to get free Peacock for two weeks. And if you have a World Elite Mastercard, two months of Instacart+ can be yours with two months of Peacock as well. Meanwhile, if you're an Xfinity user there are a whole slew of options that can net you years of Peacock at no extra cost.

For the specifics on how to apply for these offers, cast your gaze up above on this very page.

How Do You Sign Up for Peacock Through Xfinity?

The method for signing up for Peacock through Xfinity varies depending on your eligibility. You can see here the differing approaches or you can read our section above that walks through each one.

What If You Already Have Peacock?

For Xfinity users, you can cancel your existing subscription and then resub using one of several Xfinity options. Meanwhile the same is thankfully true for Instacart+ subscribers, as outlined here. "If you are an existing Peacock Premium or Premium Plus subscriber, you will need to cancel your existing Peacock subscription and wait until the end of your billing cycle with Peacock to take advantage of this benefit."

How Can You Cancel Peacock Through Instacart or Xfinity?

Peacock's own cancellation procedure is covered here but helpfully, both Instacart and Xfinity have clearly outlined the process of canceling Peacock through their respective services. For Instacart, you can cancel your Peacock subscription at any time by visiting the Peacock benefit in your Instacart+ account settings. For Xfinity, you can follow the sequence of steps as detailed here.

I'm Trying to Use Peacock But I Don't Know Where To Start. Help?

You're probably not the only one. Peacock has a dedicated help page for this very general and vague problem. Look, it's just over there.

What About Info on Other Aspects of Streaming Services?

Behold bullet points of other articles we've written covering numerous aspects of streaming services, such as:

• A detailed breakdown of Peacock subscription costs.
• Get more in-depth information about Peacock's student discount.
• The best streaming bundle deals currently available.

Well, that's all there is to say about Peacock and getting it for free via Xfinity or Instacart. Now you know and what you do with this sacred information is entirely of your own volition. Go now and make good decisions.

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