Don't pay for Plex regardless. Jellyfin is completely free and does pretty much everything. Barely even takes any knowhow to make it accessible from outside your network, too.
While Jellyfin is great for being entirely locally run and free, it is pretty inferior in terms of user experience compared to plex. The sorting, metadata, and library functions are stuck in what Plex was doing 6 or 7 years ago.
Don't pay for Plex regardless. Jellyfin is completely free and does pretty much everything. Barely even takes any knowhow to make it accessible from outside your network, too.
While Jellyfin is great for being entirely locally run and free, it is pretty inferior in terms of user experience compared to plex. The sorting, metadata, and library functions are stuck in what Plex was doing 6 or 7 years ago.