Sharing Your Amazon Prime Membership: A Step-by-Step Guide

In a few days, Prime Day will be here, and to get the most out of the sale event, you’ll need to be an Amazon Prime member. Typically, this membership costs $139 per year or $14.99 per month and comes with great perks like faster shipping on many items and access to Prime Video streaming. Amazon used to allow you to share all these benefits with a limited number of people, but things changed last year with the introduction of the Amazon Family program. While there are more restrictions now, there are still ways to work around them if you’re willing to accept some limitations.

Amazon Family is the program that lets you share Prime benefits. You can add another adult who lives in the same household as the primary account holder, along with up to four kids. This gives you access to standard benefits such as free delivery, Prime Video with ads, Prime Reading, third-party benefits like Grubhub, and even access to audiobooks, e-books, certain games, and Amazon Music.

If you want to share your Prime benefits with someone outside of your household, you still can, but there’s a catch. I’ve personally been using my parents’ Prime account for years just by logging in.