24 Amazon Prime Perks You Might Not Be Using (2025)

It’s communal knowledge that a Prime rank gets you free two-day shipping. But location are Amazon Prime perks that make nan work much worthwhile—and considering nan costs of a yearly membership, you're doing yourself a disservice if you aren't taking advantage of each of them. Below, we've listed immoderate of nan perks you should beryllium utilizing arsenic an Amazon Prime member. Arguably, these incentives unsocial aren't worthy nan costs of a membership, but chances are astatine slightest 1 of them will travel successful handy.

Amazon has had more than its adjacent stock of debacles complete nan years. Still, location are much than 200 cardinal Prime members around nan world, pinch complete 180 cardinal members successful nan United States. Some sources study as galore arsenic 220 cardinal members globally. If you're 1 of them, these perks are worthy checking out—especially during nan retailer's member-exclusive Prime Day income events, which usually autumn during July and October.

Updated June 2025: We've ensured sum is accurate, removing aged benefits and adding caller accusation connected Alexa+ and substance savings.

What’s Amazon Prime, and How Much Does It Cost?

Amazon Prime is simply a premium rank to Amazon.com. If you're a brand-new member, you tin try it free for 30 days. This proceedings automatically renews, truthful group a reminder connected your telephone to reassess and make judge you cancel, if that's your plan.

Amazon Prime costs $139 per year. You tin salary $15 per period instead, but that raises nan costs of nan rank to $180 per year. You'll prevention much money by paying once. Eighteen- to 24-year-olds tin get Prime for Young Adults (formerly Prime Student), which is $69 annually aliases $7 per month, and there's a longer six-month free trial earlier you person to commencement paying.

Finally, immoderate customers are eligible for Prime Access, a discounted Prime membership. If you verify that you person qualifying SNAP benefits aliases different authorities assistance, you tin get Amazon Prime for $7 per month.

Basic Amazon Prime Benefits

Prime members are eligible for free next-day shipping connected millions of items and free two-day shipping connected millions more. Depending connected wherever you live, you whitethorn besides beryllium eligible for free same-day delivery aliases free Amazon Locker pickup. Other Amazon-owned stores besides connection free shipping to Prime members, including ShopBop, Woot, and Zappos.

Prime members get free (and commercial-free) Prime Music streaming, which pulls playlists and podcasts from a action of 100 cardinal songs and serves them ad-free. Members are besides eligible for discounted subscriptions to Amazon Music Unlimited, a abstracted pick-and-play work for illustration Apple Music aliases Spotify that offers on-demand entree to 70 cardinal songs. Normally it costs $11 per month, but Prime members tin get it for $10 monthly.

Prime Video is besides included pinch your membership. There are immoderate slayer originals, for illustration Fallout and The Boys successful summation to different movies and shows. You tin besides watercourse sports connected Prime Video, including NFL Thursday Night Football. Purchased separately, Prime Video costs $9 per month. Note that these plans are pinch commercials. If you're a Prime personnel and you want to spell ad-free, it'll costs different $3 per month.

Prime Day

Finally, we’d beryllium remiss if we didn't talk astir Amazon’s members-only event, Prime Day. The yearly "holiday" has outperformed some Black Friday and Cyber Monday successful years past, but not each Prime Day woody is really a bargain. The WIRED Gear squad ever covers nan event to make bully deals easier to find—our sum is unsocial successful that we only constitute astir deals connected products we person personally tested and tin verify are awesome buys alternatively than flooding our roundups pinch questionable random brands. This year, we expect that (like years past) Prime Day will get successful nan mediate of July, pinch a secondary waste arriving successful October. Early Prime Day deals are usually disposable successful nan days starring up to nan sale, and we'll beryllium covering nan champion of nan champion deals.

Exclusive Deals

Even extracurricular of Prime Day, Amazon Prime members are eligible for typical members-only discounts. That mightiness mean a fewer bucks disconnected your portable charger purchase, a 20 percent–off coupon to usage connected cleaning supplies, aliases amended prices connected caller Amazon devices. Individual discounts vary, but we spot these sorts of promotions beautiful frequently—and, arsenic pinch Prime Day, not each of them are good.

Early-Access Lightning Deals

Both during and extracurricular of typical events for illustration Prime Day and Black Friday, Prime members get early entree to select Lightning Deals. You will beryllium capable to shop 30 minutes earlier different customers. Whether Lightning Deals are worthy your money is different chat entirely, but it's a perk worthy checking out.

Amazon Day

Overwhelmed by nan sheer number of boxes astatine your door? (Honestly, arsenic a merchandise reviewer, same.) Amazon Day lets you schedule each of your deliveries to get connected a definite time of nan week. Rather than dealing pinch a container aliases 2 astatine a clip connected aggregate days, you tin get 1 package pinch each of your orders connected whichever time you prefer. If you usage Amazon Day, you aren't locked in. That intends if you're ordering thing you request quickly, you tin still opt for nan fastest shipping method. Amazon Day is simply a bully measurement to trim backmost connected cardboard (and your c footprint).

No-Rush Rewards

If you don't request your bid to get correct away, sometimes astatine checkout you'll spot nan action for free No-Rush Shipping. Usually, choosing No-Rush Shipping gets you a free $1 integer in installments to usage connected things for illustration ebooks, integer games, movies, and nan like. The rewards sometimes expire aft a definite duration. I've utilized No-Rush credits to get arsenic overmuch arsenic $10 disconnected integer games connected merchandise day. Since video crippled discounts are rare, particularly correct aft release, this tin beryllium lucrative if you clip it correctly (and don't mind waiting for your purchases to arrive).

Alexa+

Prime members will get free entree to Alexa+. Alexa+ is nan new version of Amazon's sound assistant. It uses generative AI and will costs $20 per period to non-Prime members erstwhile it leaves Early Access. Amazon says you'll beryllium capable to talk naturally, building requests really you like, person tailored recommendations based connected your preferences, create bedtime stories, and more.

Grubhub+

Amazon Prime members get free entree to Grubhub+, which includes free transportation connected orders complete $12, positive an assortment of Prime-exclusive discounts astatine various restaurants passim nan year.

Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods, and Amazon Grocery

Amazon Fresh lets you bid groceries via Amazon and get them delivered to your door. It's not disposable successful each areas, but it is simply a different measurement to shop if you're trying to debar in-person trips. You besides get a action of products from Whole Foods disposable done Amazon Fresh. Somewhat confusingly, location are likewise named beingness Amazon Fresh market stores successful immoderate cities. If you're shopping astatine Whole Foods successful person, you tin scan nan smartphone app to get an other 10 percent disconnected storewide sales, and location are different member-discounts disposable passim nan year.

There's a abstracted Amazon Grocery subscription that costs $10 a period aliases $99 a year. If you person SNAP aliases EBT benefits, you tin get 50 percent off. This subscription gets you unlimited free market transportation connected orders complete $35 aliases much from Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh, and local retailers.

Amazon Family

For families, Amazon Family is simply a bully measurement to stock benefits betwixt aggregate people. You tin stock rank perks pinch 2 adults, 4 teens (ages 13-17), and 4 children. Parents tin usage Amazon Household to o.k. teens' orders aliases group up parental controls connected kids' content.

Amazon First Reads

Each month, Prime members tin use from Amazon First Reads. You'll get astatine slightest 1 Kindle book from nan action for free. Nonmembers tin get their 2 books for $2 apiece. As a reminder, you tin publication Kindle books moreover if you don't person a Kindle device, acknowledgment to nan free app disposable for phones and computers. We besides person a buying guide to thief you prime nan correct Kindle.

Prime Reading

In summation to First Reads, Prime members get entree to tons of Kindle books via Prime Reading. There are much than a 1000 items to take from. Aside from books, you tin entree audiobooks and magazines, positive comics via Comixology.

Prime Gaming

Every month, Prime members are eligible for various rewards via Prime Gaming (formerly known arsenic Twitch Prime). This includes in-game loot successful a assortment of celebrated games, free crippled downloads, free downloadable contented (DLC) and description s, and more. You besides get a free Twitch subscription—which sounds for illustration you tin watch Twitch for free, but “Twitch subs” are really subscriptions to individual Twitch streamers, and they usually costs money. With nan free subscription you get from Amazon Prime, you tin support channels you enjoy—creators make immoderate money disconnected nan subscription, but it won't costs you thing extra.

$10 disconnected Game Preorders

This discount utilized to beryllium overmuch better, but it's still worthy looking into if you are successful nan marketplace for a caller video game. Occasionally, Prime members tin person $10 disconnected erstwhile they preorder a game. Eligible titles show up here erstwhile they're available. Some video games besides person free Release Date Delivery—just look for that shipping action erstwhile preordering a game.

Unlimited Online Photo Storage

Prime members get entree to unlimited full-resolution photo storage, and 5 gigabytes of video retention arsenic well. You tin store, print, and stock photos utilizing nan Amazon Photos app and backmost everything up to nan cloud. (Printing is done done Shutterfly, wherever Prime members get a 45 percent discount.) If your relationship ever loses Prime status, you'll request to salary astatine slightest $2 per period to support storing your photos and videos, truthful this shouldn't beryllium your primary backup method. You mightiness want to see utilizing one of these options arsenic well.

Discounted Amazon Kids+

Amazon Kids+ (formerly FreeTime Unlimited) is Amazon's contented work for kids. The work is compatible pinch respective iOS, Android, and Amazon devices, for illustration Fire Tablets. It fundamentally provides a bevy of parental controls while giving kiddos entree to age-appropriate shows, books, games, and nan like. Kids+ costs $8 per month, but Prime members tin snag nan subscription for $6 per period (or $79 and $48 per year, respectively).

Fuel Savings

By linking your Amazon Prime relationship to Earnify, a loyalty app owned by BP and Amoco, you tin prevention astatine slightest 10 cents per gallon connected substance astatine complete 7,500 participating state stations locations.

Additional Perks for Specific Customers

Expecting a caller summation to your family? Select Prime members tin declare a free Baby Registry Welcome Box by creating a registry that has astatine slightest 10 unsocial items and $10 worthy of purchases (by themselves aliases others). Learn much here.

Prime RX offers prime customers discounts connected medicine medication. It's a medicine savings paper that tin beryllium utilized astatine pharmacies nationwide, including Amazon Pharmacy. These savings programs are thing new—one akin programme is GoodRx—and 1 whitethorn reason that giving Amazon accusation astir your medications adds different furniture to privateness concerns. However, nan use is free if you do determine to usage it, and it whitethorn beryllium worthy checking retired if you salary a batch out-of-pocket for medicine medication.

Amazon Key offers prime Prime members in-garage delivery. If you unrecorded successful an eligible area, and you're interested, you'll request to acquisition and instal a smart car shed kit. Amazon Key antecedently offered in-home delivery, but it's presently connected pause. (Of course, this besides comes pinch a slew of privacy concerns.)

There are 3 different Amazon in installments cards. These travel successful nan shape of rewards backmost for Prime members connected prime purchases aliases astatine prime retailers. You don't request to get an Amazon in installments card; we promote you to publication done each of nan disposable accusation and cautiously see it earlier deciding whether aliases not to get one.

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