Is Your Amazon Prime Subscription Worth It? We Ran the Numbers

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If you signed up for an Amazon Prime subscription, there's a good chance that you did it for one of two reasons: 1) the fast and free shipping or 2) the video streaming. It's OK. I'm "guilty" of it myself.

But unless you're receiving at least a few deliveries and watching a few streams each month, you may not be using your Prime membership enough to justify its cost.

Just how many products do we need to order and/or movies do we need to watch to match the subscription cost of Amazon Prime? One tricky part of making such a calculation is that there are a lot of different Amazon Prime benefits (that you might not even know about). Let's figure this out together.

How much does an Amazon Prime subscription cost?

A standard membership for Amazon Prime costs $15 per month or $139 per year. Amazon offers...

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