The Party’s Over: Amazon Cracks Down on Prime Sharing

Whether you’re a student, a parent or just someone who finds online shopping to be more convenient, you’re likely familiar with Amazon Prime. The program offers cheaper and faster shipping on some orders, access to their streaming service, and more. Many Prime members share their benefits with other family members living outside their household. And for a long time, Amazon allowed and even encouraged this. Their Prime Invitee program facilitated the sharing of Prime benefits with a limited number of other adults, teens and children, even if they lived outside outside of the Prime account holder’s immediate household. However, Amazon recently announced that they’re limiting many Prime benefits to a single household.

What Is Amazon Changing About Prime Sharing?

According to Amazon’s updates page, the major online retailer is changing the name of their benefits sharing program and limiting those Prime benefits to one single household. That is, everyone accessing the benefits has to live at the same physical address. If you’re the main account holder, Amazon says that “you can now share certain Prime benefits through Amazon Family.” If you’re the invitee, on the other hand, “you can either ask the Prime member in your household to add you to their Amazon Family, or sign up for your own Prime Membership.”

This change will take effect on October 1, 2025. At this time, “Prime invitees will lose access to the shared Prime delivery benefit, but can use Amazon Family instead.” Unlike Prime Invitee, Amazon Family members will need to live in the same physical household in order to be eligible to share the Prime benefits.

Per the company, Amazon Family members can share:

• Fast and free delivery on Prime-eligible items
• Access to exclusive Prime events and deals
• Prime Video (with ads)
• Prime Reading
• Access to third-party benefits (for example, Grubhub)
• Digital content such as audiobooks, eBooks, games, and more.
• Additionally, Prime members can share their Amazon Music Prime benefit with one other adult in their Amazon Family. This sharing allows both adults to enjoy ad-free listening on shuffle mode.

The Amazon Family is limited to “one other adult in their household, up to four teens (who were added before April 7, 2025), and up to four profiles for children.” Any additional adults “will need their own Prime Membership.”

Will Amazon Limit Password Sharing?

Amazon’s announcement doesn’t directly address password sharing, so it’s unclear if it will be limited to people inside the account holder’s primary household.

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