[Update 7/1/25: Aside from the regular 6 months of free Prime member, Amazon has added a special for Young Adults (ages 18-24) to get 5% back on all Amazon purchases, up to $500 per calendar year. On Prime Day 2025 (July 8-11) Young Adults will get an increased rate of 10% back. We wrote more in this dedicated post.]
Amazon has a special offer for Young Adults (ages 18-24) and for Students (any age) with a 6-month free Amazon Prime membership trial, discounted monthly price, and numerous benefits like Grubhub+, cheap Amazon Music Unlimited, discounted Prime Video channels and more. We’ve mentioned many of these benefits individually, in this post we’ll do a full review.
Amazon Prime Student signup page (affiliate links are contained in this post)
Contents
Membership Discounts
- Get a 6-month Amazon Prime Student free trial instead of the standard Amazon Prime 1-month free trial.
- After your free trial, pay just $7.49/month for Prime membership instead of the standard $14.99.
- Alternatively, you can also opt to pay $69 for the year instead of of the regular $139.
Those age 18-24 are eligible automatically, even if they are not students. Those in other age groups will input the university name and graduation year during the signup process or you can instead input your .edu email address. (See this comment.)
Bonus Amazon Benefits
Young Adults and Students get the following extra Amazon benefits:
- Many Prime Video channels for just $.99/month, for up to one year. This includes Showtime (reg. $10.99), Epix (reg. $5.99), Acorn TV, Allblk, Motortrend, Shudder, Pantaya, Lifetime Movie Club, Sundance Now, History Vault, Coda Collection.
- Get Amazon Music Unlimited for just $5.99/month for up to four years (reg. $8.99/month).
- Two months free Kindle Unlimited subscription (reg. $9.99/month).
- Students can refer other students to Amazon Prime Student and get a $10 Amazon credit for referrer and $5 credit for new member. (our original post)
- Get $5 off Amazon Warehouse with promo code 5OFFUSED. No minimum purchase required, can get a cheap item for free. (our original post)
Other Benefits
Students get the following partner benefits:
- Grubhub+ benefit – get a free year of Grubhub+ (reg. $9.99/month) (our original post)
- Calm app benefit – get three month free trial and then pay just $8.99 for the year instead of the standard $69.99/year.
- Travel Discounts – get 10% off travel with StudentUniverse
- Course Hero – one month free, then a discounted monthly price of $9.95
Young Adult 5% Back
There’s a special benefit for Young Adults only to get 5% back on select purchases, up to $100 back per purchase and $500 per calendar year.
Eligible Products are identifiable with badges on product search and detail pages. Eligible Products are currently listed in the product categories of Beauty, Apparel, Electronics, Personal Care and Personal Computers.
Young Adults can find their cashback balance here.
Our Verdict
Some nice deals here with the 6 month trial, ongoing discounted Prime membership, and all of these other benefits.
