Sharing Amazon Prime Video - what are the options?

Amazon Prime Video is Amazon's streaming service. Here you can watch movies and series, some of which are even produced by Amazon itself. But is it also possible to share Amazon Prime Video with other users to save costs?

Can Amazon Prime Video be shared?

Amazon Prime Video is part of Amazon Prime and is made available to all Prime customers. Here you can watch all the movies and series included in Prime for free.

• With Amazon Prime, you can add a household member and share the Prime shipping. Customers who were already part of it before October 2017 can continue to share with four people.
• The invited person then also benefits from Premium shipping as well as lightning deals.
• All other bonuses such as Prime Video or the Kindle books, however, are only available to the main member. If another person wants to use them, they have to buy their own Amazon Prime subscription.

Alternatives to sharing

Of course, you can share your account details with another person, however, this is quite dangerous and Amazon might notice if you are constantly accessing the content from a different IP. In any case, it violates the usage policy and could lead to your exclusion from Amazon Prime in the worst case.

• However, if you share your account data with your household, for example, you can stream Amazon Prime Video on up to three devices simultaneously.
• Playing the same movie on different devices, however, is not possible at the same time.
• Nevertheless, you and your household members can easily log in to the same account and watch movies without having to sign up for an additional subscription.