Is Uber Eats free with Amazon Prime? Delivery is, the bill isn’t

Only the delivery is free, and only above a minimum. Prime members get a $0 delivery fee on Uber Eats orders of $25 or more when they order through Amazon. Amazon has confirmed that service fees still apply on those orders.

That gap matters more than it sounds. On a typical takeout order, the delivery fee is only one line on the receipt. Service fees, local regulatory charges, driver tips and menu prices that are sometimes higher than in the restaurant itself usually make up most of the bill. Waiving delivery trims the total, but it rarely cuts it by much.

There’s also the $25 floor. If you often order lunch for one, you may land below it and pay the normal delivery charge, or add a side you didn’t want just to clear the line.

You don’t need the Uber Eats app or an Uber login. The whole order runs through your Amazon account:

1. Open Amazon.com or the Amazon Shopping app and sign in with the Prime account you already use.
2. Choose a restaurant near you from the Uber Eats options Amazon shows.
3. Pay with a card that’s already saved to your Amazon account.
4. Watch for updates. Amazon sends the delivery alerts to your email and phone, and Uber Eats sends the final confirmation and receipt.

If you already pay for Uber One, Uber’s own membership, you keep those benefits. Amazon says the two memberships run separately, so ordering through Amazon doesn’t merge them.

The Grubhub perk is over for new sign-ups. Amazon’s commercial deal with Grubhub ended on Thursday, and both companies confirmed it. You can no longer place Grubhub orders through Amazon.com or the Amazon Shopping app.

There’s one exception worth checking. If you had already switched on the Grubhub+ membership that came with Prime, you can keep using it until December 31, 2027. If you never activated it, that door is now closed.

The split ends a relationship that started in 2022, when Amazon first gave Prime members a free Grubhub+ subscription. In 2024 the two expanded the deal and made Grubhub+ an ongoing Prime benefit, and Amazon secured the right to raise its stake in Grubhub to as much as 18%. Grubhub was later sold to Wonder, and Amazon cashed out its exercisable warrants in December 2024. The delivery partnership carried on until this week.

For now, this is a US-only perk. The companies say close to 10,000 US communities can use it, with a few hundred thousand restaurants to choose from, ranging from big places like Atlanta and Los Angeles to smaller ones like Oak Park in Illinois and Boardman in Oregon. Chains such as Chipotle, Sweetgreen and Wingstop are on the list along with local spots.

It isn’t limited to full-price Prime, either. Members on the half-price Prime for Young Adults plan and the discounted Prime Access plan get the same benefit.

Amazon and Uber describe the deal as a benefit for Prime members in the US, and that is the only market they named.

Amazon says Prime members could save more than $175 a year with the Uber Eats perk. That’s more than the $139 annual Prime fee, which is clearly the point of the number. But Amazon built it from August 2026 order data and compared it with ordering on Uber Eats without Uber One. In plain terms, you’d need to order delivery fairly often, likely several times a month, to get anywhere close.

There are a few short-term sweeteners on top:

• Launch discount: $20 off each of your first two Uber Eats orders of $25 or more, if you place them within 14 days.
• Prime Visa: cardholders earn 5% back on Uber Eats orders until December 5, 2026.
• Prime-only offers: Amazon promises deals that are only available when you order on Amazon.

For a household that already orders takeout every week, this is a real saving. For someone who orders once a month, the $20 launch credit is the main prize.

Why Amazon dropped Grubhub for Uber

The short answer is reach. Market estimates put Uber Eats at roughly a quarter of US food delivery, while Grubhub holds a single-digit share. A Prime perk is there to make the yearly fee feel worth paying, and a bigger delivery network makes that easier.

Amazon and Uber were already close. They work together on cloud computing, on Zoox robotaxis and on putting Uber Eats inside Alexa+, Amazon’s AI assistant. Amazon also tried running its own food service, Amazon Restaurants, and shut it in 2019. Partnering is cheaper than building a fleet for hot meals.

For Uber, the prize is tens of millions of Prime shoppers who are used to having things delivered. Delivery is already Uber’s fastest-growing large business, with delivery gross bookings up 22% to $28.5bn in the third quarter. The deal also lands a week after DoorDash agreed to buy Instacart, and on the same day Lyft launched a membership bundled with DoorDash’s DashPass. The delivery wars just picked new teams.