Uber Eats joins Amazon Prime benefits

Amazon Prime members in the United States can now order food from Uber Eats without paying a delivery fee on orders of $25 or more. The new perk is effective immediately. Customers can place these orders directly through Amazon.com or the Amazon shopping app.

Amazon announced the agreement on Thursday. The company stated that the partnership grants access to hundreds of thousands of restaurants. This addition expands the benefits available to the roughly 200 million Prime subscribers who pay $14.99 monthly or $139 annually for the service.

For the first 14 days, new users of this feature can receive $20 off their first two eligible orders. Each of those initial orders must be at least $25 to qualify for the discount.

This is Amazon's second major partnership with a restaurant delivery platform. In 2024, the retailer added Grubhub for Prime members. Amazon said the Grubhub offer will end when the Uber Eats partnership becomes active. The company has continued to add perks to the Prime subscription to maintain value for its paying customers.

Andrew Macdonald, president and chief operating officer of Uber, said the collaboration built an experience designed to make restaurant delivery feel natural and convenient. He noted the goal was to make ordering food as easy as buying other goods on the platform.

The announcement follows recent moves in the grocery and food delivery sector. Last month, DoorDash said it would pay $17 billion to acquire Instacart. That deal aims to combine DoorDash logistics with Instacart technology and grocery store relationships.

Walmart has also expanded its own delivery options. The retailer began a delivery partnership with Subway this summer. It has since added select Dunkin' and Papa Johns locations. Walmart now lists 2,400 restaurant locations on its platform. Greg Cathey, Walmart senior vice president of e-commerce transformation, said 65% of those delivery orders included additional items from Walmart stores.