Amazon is Restricting the Ability to Share Free Prime Shipping to People in the Same Household

Amazon is removing the ability for Prime subscribers to share their free shipping benefit with people outside of their household. An updated support page spotted by The Verge indicates that the free perk will be discontinued for Prime invitees on October 1st, 2025.

Going forward, Amazon Family will replace the Prime Invitee program. It already allows Prime members to share select Prime benefits such as free delivery, Prime Video (with ads), and Prime reading with one other adult, up to four teens (added before April 7, 2025), and up to four children profiles in the same household. Amazon Family also supports sharing the Amazon Music Prime benefit with one other adult in the same household.

Prime invitees who will lose access to the shared Prime delivery benefit after October 1 are invited to either ask the Prime member to add them to their Amazon Family (if they live in the same household). Otherwise, they will need to sign up for their own Prime Membership. If they choose that solution, they’ll only pay $14.99 for a year of Amazon Prime instead of the standard $139.

Amazon announced back in 2021 that it had over 200 million Prime subscribers worldwide, and ending its Prime Invitee program will probably help the company to increase that number. Amazon Prime remains a good value if you frequently make purchases on Amazon and are interested in Prime Video content, even though that service now includes ads unless you pay an extra $2.99/month.