Amazon Prime built its popularity by offering subscribers faster free shipping, access to streaming movies and TV shows, and exclusive deals (most noticeably during the company’s Prime Day dealfest, coming again July 16 and 17). But Prime membership includes other perks, too: Everything from free ebook offerings to free photo storage and even grocery delivery.
The list of benefits has grown considerably since the program’s launch, so we’ve highlighted the best of the bunch, the ones that make Amazon Prime worth having. Some of these you’ll already know, but the others you’re likely not taking advantage of.
The top Amazon Prime benefits
Free expedited shipping
Expedited shipping is included for free with a Amazon Prime subscription, with no minimum purchase for most orders.
Expedited shipping is included for free with a Amazon Prime subscription, with no minimum purchase for most orders.
Expedited shipping is included for free with a Amazon Prime subscription, with no minimum purchase for most orders.
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</div></figure></div>Amazon Prime’s upgraded shipping is the feature that started it all. These days, you get free two-day delivery on most items, plus free one-day delivery on eligible items, with no minimum purchase. In select areas, free same-day delivery on eligible items is available as well, when you’ve met the stated minimum threshold for purchases.
Free shipping benefits also extend to several other businesses Amazon owns: Woot, Zappos, and shopbop.
Membership sharing
Standard Amazon Prime memberships can be shared with one other adult, up to four teens, and up to four children in a household. Adult and teen household accounts can take advantage of Prime shipping benefits, Prime Video, Prime Reading, Amazon Photos, First Reads, unlimited listening on Audible Channels, and early access to Lighting Deals.
Child profiles associated with the same household can access digital content that’s been approved by the adult account(s).
Prime Video
You can stream thousands of movies and TV shows through Amazon Prime Video for free, including original content produced by Amazon—some of which is quite good. Like Netflix and other streaming sites, the catalog changes often, so if you’re interested in a show or movie, watch it while you can. We’re still sad that Babylon 5 rotated off the list.
Grocery delivery
Prime members in select areas get free two-hour delivery on Amazon Fresh purchases over $100—available groceries include produce, snacks, and meat.
GrubHub+
Speaking of food delivery, Amazon Prime subscribers can now cash in on a free subscription to GrubHub+, the restaurant delivery service’s premium membership. It normally costs $10 per month by its lonesome, so this is a spectacular benefit.
Amazon Photos
Amazon Prime members get unlimited photo storage at full resolution, but only 5GB of space for video.
Amazon Prime members get unlimited photo storage at full resolution, but only 5GB of space for video.
<div class="lightbox-image-container foundry-lightbox"><div class="extendedBlock-wrapper block-coreImage undefined"><figure class="wp-block-image enlarged-image"><a class="zoom" href="https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2021/05/amazonphotos3-100889423-orig.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img decoding="async" data-wp-bind--src="selectors.core.image.enlargedImgSrc" data-wp-style--object-fit="selectors.core.image.lightboxObjectFit" src="" alt="amazon photos website screenshot" loading="lazy" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Amazon Prime members get unlimited photo storage at full resolution, but only 5GB of space for video.
</div></figure></div>Amazon’s photo storage service lets you skip an Apple or Google subscription for photo and video backup—or set up a secondary backup for your existing backup service. Prime members get unlimited, full-resolution storage for photos and up to 5GB of space for video, with the ability to view your files across all devices. You can also easily share files, just as with rival services.
Prime Gaming
Amazon’s acquisition of Twitch resulted in further diversification of Amazon Prime perks—if you link your accounts, you can get free games and in-game content monthly, one free Twitch channel subscription to use on your favorite streamer, and special promotions on pre-order video games.
Amazon Music Prime
Not interested in paying for streaming music? No need. Amazon Prime subscribers get access to over a 100 million songs, plus millions of podcast episodes, as part of their membership. (For access to a wider catalog, you’ll have to shell out for an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.)
Prime Reading
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