Spotify Premium just got 1,400 Peloton workouts free — no bike required

Spotify Premium subscribers can now stream more than 1,400 on-demand Peloton classes without paying anything extra. The new Fitness category, built around a global partnership with Peloton, surfaces strength, yoga, Pilates, barre, stretching, meditation, floor cardio, and outdoor running and walking sessions inside the same app subscribers already use for music and podcasts. It is Spotify’s most concrete attempt yet to push beyond music — and Peloton’s biggest distribution play since the company’s pandemic peak.

The full catalog is available in nine countries at launch: the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Germany, Austria, Sweden, and Spain. Premium users can find the new section by searching “fitness” inside the Spotify app or by tapping Browse All under the Search icon and selecting Fitness. The classes ship in English by default, with selected Spanish and German titles in the catalog. Star Peloton instructors including Rebecca Kennedy, Ally Love, and Rad Lopez carry over directly into Spotify, and the company says new classes and new instructors will be added regularly.

The big absence is the part of Peloton most people associate with the brand: cycling and treadmill classes are not included. Spotify is taking the floor catalog — the workouts you can do without specialized equipment — and leaving the equipment-bound content inside Peloton’s own app. For people who already own a Peloton bike or Tread, this partnership doesn’t change the situation. For everyone else, it is the first time Peloton’s instructors and methodology have been available outside Peloton’s own ecosystem at this scale.

Spotify’s Free users are not entirely shut out. The Fitness category for Free accounts includes curated playlists and full classes from independent wellness creators — Yoga with Kassandra, Chloe Ting Home Workouts, Sweaty Studio, Pilates Body by Raven, and others — but not the Peloton catalog. The Peloton library is a Premium-only addition. The structural play is clear: Spotify is using Peloton as a Premium upgrade lure, not as a free perk.

The framing deserves trimming. The catalog is “free” only in the sense that Premium subscribers don’t pay extra — Premium itself costs a monthly subscription, and for users who already own a Peloton bike or Tread, the most valuable Peloton content remains locked behind the company’s own app. The English-first language reality means most of the catalog is not localized for the non-anglophone markets where it is launching, including Spain, Germany, and Mexico — Spanish and German are “select” titles, not the full library. And the rollout is just nine countries: large markets such as Brazil, Italy, France, and most of Asia are absent at launch. Spotify says expansion is coming, but has not committed to specific markets or specific dates.

For Peloton, the deal is a survival pivot dressed as a growth story. The company has been bleeding subscribers and revenue since the pandemic-era boom evaporated, and the value of its world-class instructor roster has drifted further from the value of its hardware. Embedding those instructors inside Spotify — where roughly 250 million Premium subscribers already live — recovers global reach Peloton lost when it overshot demand for its bikes. For Spotify, the deal is a slow-burn experiment in whether subscribers will engage with anything beyond music and podcasts, after audiobook bundles and video have produced mixed results so far.

The Fitness category launched on April 27 across the nine markets listed above. Spotify has not published a timeline for further geographic expansion or for adding cycling and treadmill content to the catalog. Peloton’s next earnings — the first to land after the partnership — are due in the coming weeks and will be the first hard signal of whether the deal materially changes the company’s subscriber trajectory.