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.