Amazon subscriptions, and how to cancel them
Find your way through Amazon's jungle of subscriptions and sub-subscriptions.
There are plenty of savings, tricks, and loopholes to be found in the subscription jungle that is Amazon – if you stay on top of them all. If you don't, you could easily rack up charges of over £20 a month (though that number can go up indefinitely depending on how many 'channels' and Subscribe & Save items you're signed up to).
Amazon now has a huge number of separate subscription options on top of the main Prime membership, including Subscribe & Save, Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Music – not to mention all the extra streaming services you can subscribe to within Prime Video (let's just call them sub-subscriptions).
Here's what you need to know about each Amazon subscription, and how to cancel them.
In this blog
Amazon Prime, and how to cancel
Subscribe & Save, and how to cancel
Prime Video, and how to cancel
Prime Video channels, and how to cancel
Kindle Unlimited, and how to cancel
Software subscriptions, and how to cancel
Amazon Prime - £8.99/month
The main Amazon Prime membership costs £8.99/month (or £95 for a whole year). New members are usually offered a seven or 30-day free trial (if you cancel, you may even be offered another free trial after a couple of months). Students and those aged 18-22, can get 50% off Prime membership. With a Prime membership, you get the following benefits:
Prime Delivery: Free next-day (or sometimes same-day) delivery on thousands of products
Prime Video: Amazon's TV and film streaming service
Amazon Music Prime: ad-free, shuffle-only tier of Amazon's music-streaming service
Prime Reading: a library of e-books and magazines to read on your Kindle
Prime Gaming: A rotation of PC games given away for free each month, and other gaming-related giveaways.
Amazon Luna: A library of games that you can play via cloud gaming (streaming).
Deliveroo Plus Silver membership: Normally £3.49/month via Deliveroo, this entitles you to free delivery on orders over £15, and access to special offers on Deliveroo.
Exclusive discounts: Amazon Fresh, Lightning Deals, Prime Day etc.
The value of this offer really depends on how much you take advantage of these perks. For me it's a no-brainer, as the super-fast delivery is a massive boon when I'm doing DIY projects around the house and need obscure tools quickly (or am simply feeling impatient for deliveries).
I also take advantage of Prime Video, the gaming freebies, and Deliveroo Plus occasionally (though it's facing stiff competition from Uber as my go-to takeaway app these days).
On balance, even if you utilise just a few of Prime's perks, it's a subscription worth looking into.
How to cancel Prime membership
On the Amazon homepage, hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Your Prime membership > Manage membership. You'll then see a page with all your Amazon subscriptions (if you subscribed via Google Play or App Store, you'll be redirected to your subscription management page on those platforms).
You can also cancel Prime through the Amazon app by tapping the profile icon > Account > Prime Membership > Manage Membership > End membership
Once you cancelled, you get to keep your Prime benefits until the end of the current billing cycle, after which all of the above-listed perks will cease (though you do get to keep any free PC games you claim forever).
Subscribe & Save - 5-15% off regular deliveries
Amazon's Subscribe & Save feature lets you subscribe to certain items instead of just buying them as a one-off. This will usually net you a discount of 5-15% per delivery, depending on how many items you're buying. You set the frequency with which you want to receive the item, ranging from every two weeks to every six months.
You can save a fair bit of money by subscribe-and-saving, then cancelling your subscription after only receiving one. Of course you don't need to cancel – you'll also save if you actually need to get the item in question on a regular basis.
How to cancel Subscribe & Save
On the Amazon web page, hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists. A dropdown will appear, then you click Your Subscribe & Save Items. Click the item you want to cancel your subscription for, then click Cancel subscription.
This process is much clearer in the Amazon app, where Subscribe & Save appears under 'Your shortcuts' in the main menu.
Prime Video - £5.99-£8.99/month
Prime Video is Amazon's answer to Netflix, and includes hundreds of TV shows and movies, such as Clarkson's Farm, Rings of Power, and Conclave, among plenty of other high (and low) quality entertainment.
It is included in a Prime membership, but you can also subscribe to it separately. It sometimes offers a free 30-day trial, after which it rolls onto either the ad-supported version (which you also get with a full Amazon Prime membership) for £5.99/month, or the ad-free version for £8.99/month.
Given the fine margin in monthly price between this and a full Prime membership, which offers many more perks for £3 a month more, it's hard for me to see a case for getting a standalone Prime Video subscription. But if you're sure you won't benefit from the other Prime perks and want to save a couple of quid a month, the option's there.
Not everything you see on Prime Video is included in the subscription, as within it you'll find content from 'channels' that you need a separate subscription for, as well as movies and TV to rent and buy for one-off prices. You can filter these out by selecting the 'Prime' logo when browsing.
How to cancel Prime Video subscription
On the Amazon homepage, hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Memberships & Subscriptions, then click Cancel next to Prime Video and follow the instructions. After cancelling, you can continue watching Prime Video until the next billing cycle, even within your free trial period.
Prime Video channels
The extra subscriptions within Prime Video are the biggest banana peel on Amazon in terms of 'subscribe and forget.' Once you have a Prime Video subscription, you can subscribe to 'channels' such as Paramount+, Apple TV+, MUBI and BFI Player. Many of these offer a free trial, and it's all too easy to just sign up to the trial so you can watch the movie or show you want, then forget you did it.
How to cancel Prime Video channels
Go to Prime Video > Subscriptions. You'll see your channel subscriptions under 'My subscriptions'. Click Manage, then on the next screen you'll see the price and renewal dates for each of them, with the option to click Cancel for each one. You can keep watching until the end of the current billing cycle.
In the TV app, you can cancel and manage subscriptions by going to Settings > Channel subscriptions > Manage your subscriptions.
Kindle Unlimited - £9.49/month
Kindle Unlimited gives you access to a vast library of eBooks (readable only on Kindle devices and the Kindle iOS and Android apps, not other devices like Nook, Kobo etc.). Where with Prime Reading (included with a Prime membership), you get a rotation of a few thousand books, the Kindle Unlimited library stands at around 5 million books, magazines, graphic novels, audiobooks, and more.
Kindle Unlimited regularly offers free trials of up to three months, which is plenty of time to smash through a few books. Once the trial is over, it rolls over into the regular price of £9.49/month.
How to cancel Kindle Unlimited subscription
On the Amazon homepage, hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Memberships & Subscriptions. Click Kindle Unlimited settings next to your Kindle Unlimited subscription. Click Cancel your membership > Cancel membership, and you're done.
In the Amazon app, tap your profile icon > Account > Memberships & Subscriptions > Kindle Unlimited Settings then cancel Kindle Unlimited from there.
Audible - £5.99/month
Audible is Amazon's audiobook platform. If there's a particular book that you want to listen to rather than read, then this is the most likely place you'll find it. The monthly price is £5.99/month for the Standard plan, which lets you pick one audiobook a month to listen to.
The £8.99 'Premium' plan gets you access to a vast selection of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals (such as Alan Partridge's excellent 'From the Oasthouse' podcast), as well as one credit per month to claim any Audible audiobook to keep forever (even after your subscription expires).
Audible frequently has introductory offers, such as 99p/month for the first three months, or £3.99/month for three months, for both new and lapsed customers. At the time of writing, Prime members could pick two free audiobooks to keep if it's their first Audible trial.
How to cancel Audible subscription
In the Audible app on your phone, tap Profile > View Account > Manage Membership > Cancel membership > Cancel membership > Continue cancelling. They may try to retain you with a extended discount period or a free credit (at which point you can take the credit, grab another audiobook with it, then unsubscribe). You can also cancel Audible via your Amazon Memberships & Subscriptions page.
When you go to cancel, Audible says you will lose your unused Audible credits 'when you cancel your subscription'. The way this is phrased could lead you to think that you'll lose your credits and membership benefits right away, but don't worry, you do get to keep your unused credits and membership perks until the end of the current billing cycle.
Amazon Music - £10.99 (Standard)/£11.99 (Unlimited)
If you subscribe to Amazon Prime, you get the 'Prime' tier of Amazon Music, which lets you shuffle songs (except for All-Access Playlists, within which you can pick songs on-demand), listen to stations, and listen to podcasts.
Amazon Music Standard and Unlimited feature all the above, as well as completely on-demand listening, offline listening, and various high-definition audio formats. The only difference between Standard and Unlimited is that Unlimited also lets you listen to one Audible audiobook each month (equivalent to the Audible Standard plan).
The paid Amazon Music tiers usually come with a 30-day (or longer) free trial. Given that there are four tiers of Amazon Music, here's a breakdown on what you get with each one:
Amazon Music Free | Amazon Music Prime | Amazon Music Standard | Amazon Music Unlimited | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Price (monthly) | Free | Included with Prime subscription (£8.99) | £10.99 (£9.99 for Prime members) | £11.99 (£10.99 for Prime members) |
Playback | Curated playlists, stations, and listening based on your likes, shuffle-play | Curated playlists, stations, and listening based on your likes, shuffle-play, skip tracks and on-demand track selection (in All-Access Playlists only) | Unlimited skips, on-demand play of songs, albums, artists, playlists, and stations | Unlimited skips, on-demand play of songs, albums, artists, playlists, and stations |
Ad-free | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Podcasts | Yes (with ads) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Offline listening | No | Yes (only from All-Access Playlists) | Yes | Yes |
Audiobooks | No | No | No | Yes (Individual or Family Plan, one audiobook a month via Audible) |
Audio formats | Standard | Standard | HD, Ultra HD, Spatial Audio | HD, Ultra HD, Spatial Audio |
How to cancel Amazon Music Unlimited
Go to the Memberships & Subscriptions page of your Amazon account. Once there, click Cancel subscription next to Amazon Music Unlimited, and follow the instructions (oddly, you can't cancel your subscription directly through the Amazon Music app).
You can also cancel through the Amazon app by tapping the profile icon > Account > Memberships & Subscriptions > Amazon Music settings. When I cancelled, Amazon Music didn't even make me a retention offer, but they have in the past so this may be on a per-customer basis (I'm presumably a persona non grata with them for always cancelling subscriptions within their trial periods and running off with the freebies).
Software subscriptions
One of the less heralded subscription offerings on Amazon is for the various software you can buy on the site. Office 365, Adobe Acrobat, antivirus software, and tons of other software is available to subscribe to via Amazon, which means you need to manage and cancel those subscriptions via Amazon instead of by the software publisher.
Not all software subscriptions are managed by Amazon, only the ones where 'Auto-Renewing Subscription' appears as a purchase configuration option.
How to cancel software subscriptions on Amazon
On the Amazon homepage, hover over (don't click) Accounts & Lists > Memberships & Subscriptions, then click Cancel next to your software subscription. You can also access this page via Your Games and Software Library.
If you're using the app, tap your profile icon > Account > Memberships & Subscriptions > then select and cancel your software subscription from there.
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