Amazon ends shared Prime free shipping outside your home

Amazon is axing the programme that lets Prime members stock their escaped shipping perk with radical extracurricular their household. In an update to its enactment page, Amazon says it volition chopped disconnected Prime payment sharing connected October 1st, 2025, prompting invitees who don’t unrecorded with the relationship holder to motion up for their ain subscription astatine a discounted $14.99 complaint for an full twelvemonth (and past $14.99 per period aft that).

Instead, Amazon is replacing this programme with Amazon Family, which lets relationship holders stock Prime benefits — but lone with radical they unrecorded with. Amazon says everyone successful a “Family” indispensable unrecorded astatine the aforesaid superior residential address, defined arsenic “the code you see to beryllium your location and wherever you walk the bulk of your time.”

As we’ve seen with respective streaming services that person cracked down connected password sharing, Amazon is apt ending the programme arsenic a mode to enactment up caller subscribers. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Amazon didn’t conscionable Prime signup goals successful the US during its extended Prime Day lawsuit successful July, though the institution reportedly said it had grounds signups successful the 25 days surrounding the event.

Launched successful 2015, Amazon Family (formerly Amazon Household) offers entree to escaped shipping, on with further perks similar Prime Video, Prime Reading, third-party benefits similar GrubHub, shared ebooks, Amazon Music, and more. You tin lone adhd up to 1 different big that you unrecorded with to your account, up to 4 teens (but lone if you added them earlier April 7th, 2025), and up to 4 kid profiles.