How to Share Your Amazon Prime Membership With Family (Even If You Don't Live Together)

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To make the most out of next week's Prime Big Deal Days, you need to be an Amazon Prime member, which costs for $139 per year or $14.99 per month. Being a Prime member comes with a lot of perks, like faster shipping on many items and access to Prime Video streaming, but a lesser-known feature is that you can share all those membership benefits with your family and only pay one membership fee.

You can add one other adult and up to four kids to your Amazon Family, which allows everyone in the group to access all the standard benefits—and you don't have to live together. This feature used to be called the "Amazon Household," but was recently changed with the intention of making it a little less confusing. (A different feature, which allowed Prime members to invite others outside their household to share their free shipping benefits, also officially ended as of Oct. 1.)

Here's how the new Amazon Family program works.

How to share Amazon Prime benefits with your family

To get started, you’ll need an Amazon account and a Prime membership (so here’s how to sign up for Amazon Prime if you don’t have it already). After logging in, head over to the Amazon Family page, which you'll find by clicking Your Account, then Your Amazon Family. There, you'll find the option to add one other adult and up to four kids under age 12. (You used to be able to add up to four teens, too, but as of April 2025, Amazon stopped that practice, stating "Amazon accounts and shopping profiles are intended for adult shoppers." Sorry, teens. However, if your teen was added before April 7, they'll retain their status in your Amazon Family.)

If you want to add an adult, you’ll be prompted to enter their name and the email associated with their Amazon account. You’ll then have to agree to link your payment wallet and choose which types of content—apps, audiobooks, and/or e-books—you want to share. Amazon does notify you if a Family member moves one of your payment methods to their wallet.

From here, they will receive an invitation via email to join your Family. To accept, they’ll click Get Prime Benefits and follow the prompts to agree to wallet sharing (and to cancel their own Prime membership if they have one). Invitations are valid for 14 days. If the person you want to invite doesn’t have an Amazon account, they can create one during sign-up.

Children can’t shop on Amazon, but can access Amazon Kids content and features. From the Family landing page, you can access a dashboard to manage the kinds of content and features they have access to.

A few limitations:

• Amazon Families can only contain two adults and up to four children.

• Families members must have an address in the same country (but do not have to have the same address).

• If an adult has left an Amazon Family, neither adult on the account can join a different one for 180 days.

If you need to remove someone from your Amazon Family, you can do so via the Manage Your Family page.

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