Update 8/16/24: There’s now a promo for verified students and for all young adults (18-24) to get a $10 Amazon credit with signup as well. Valid August 1 – August 31, 2024. This is the direct link (affiliate link).
Amazon has a special Prime Student membership with a 6-month free 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)
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
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
Our Verdict
The biggest thing for Students is the 6 month free trial and discounted monthly price. Some other good benefits as well.
has anyone been able to get the $10 credit? my account seems to not get it when i register
Tried to order $30 worth of AMZ S&S items after registering and being accepted using my kid for Young Adult Prime. No promo applied.
yeah, seems to be glitched as of now, support said it would be up in two days, three days ago, interesting.
That was a dud, signed up, didn’t receive a credit, chatted with Amazon and got told to email [email protected]. What a pain for $10.
Ken Griffin bought a dinosaur for $45 million dollars so I’m sure Jeff Bezos has to have one, too
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/18/citadels-ken-griffin-buys-a-stegosaurus-for-45-million-in-a-record-auction-sale.html
Mine only says “1-week trial”
how do you get the 6 months?
That’s what I’m seeing as well
One thing I noticed is that regular Amazon accounts become eligible for 1 month Prime trials (that become 2 month trials later) after about a year or so, but Amazon Student accounts never become eligible for a second 6-month trial. I also haven’t found a way to convert a non-Prime student account to regular non-Prime account in order to be eligible for more 1 month trials.
What an Amazon Student account? Any Amazon account that at some point claimed student benefit?
yes. once you convert to an Amazon Student account, I don’t believe there’s a way to go back
Is there any indication that it’s a student account?
I have an account where I claimed 6mo free student Prime long time ago. Now this account only gets offers for discounted student Prime (not free). I’m wondering if this is treated as a student account.
My other accounts get 1mo free Prime trials every one in a while.
I had a student account that lapsed about 4 years ago. I currently see only a one week trial.
I can’t sign up for a student account because now amazon requires phone number and my phone number is already used in my main account, so it gives me an error that my phone number is already in use. is there a way to make my account a student account?
Do you have a Google Voice number?
I know this is a late reply, but you can remove your mobile number under Your account > Login & Security. In your case, you would remove it from your main account, sign up for a student account, remove it from the student account, and then you could re-add it to your main account if you want to.
I am grad student. My company reimburses tuition so more dollars towards bonuses. I got the 6 month trial and now paying the $7.49 a month. Don’t think it’s worth it. Prime tv is awful and I don’t really order from Amazon
Referral seems to be dead
LinkedIn premium no longer offered, FYI
I’ll delete, thanks
so, we’ve had a family shared account in my name for years- which was prepaid. My College student daughter saw this promo and signed up for it because she wanted the Grubhub plus.
Now we’re getting it for free I guess, but I haven’t seen a refund for the pro-rated annual membership for which I paid. I assume that we’ll be billed at the student rate after the free 6 months and can pay the $69 annual up front, but what happened to/will happen to my remaining balance? I’d try to call Amazon, but based on past experience, from when I bought a discounted gift of Prime for myself and tried to get a credit for my previous pre-payment with no luck at all, they won’t have a clue…
Any ideas?
Thanks all
Also, GH+ is very weak incentive to get prime. I think BoA also has/had GH+ under bankamerideals. And probably there are other ways.
Interesting, I’ll add that