Amazon Swaps Grubhub for Uber Eats as Prime's Takeout Perk

Prime members pay no delivery fee on Uber Eats orders of $25 or more placed through Amazon, with no Uber account needed.

Prime members can now order Uber Eats inside Amazon's app, no Uber account needed, with no delivery fee on orders of $25 or more. Amazon said the perk went live Thursday for every U.S. Prime member, including people on its half-price Prime for Young Adults and Prime Access plans. Full-price Prime costs $14.99 a month or $139 a year.

The deal makes Uber Eats Prime's official restaurant delivery partner in the U.S., The Verge reported, and TechCrunch reported that it ends Amazon's Grubhub arrangement the same day. The Verge also pointed out what the deal leaves alone: tips, service fees, menu markups and local regulatory charges all stay on the bill. The charge Amazon drops usually runs about $3 to $4, The Verge said.

Everything runs through the Amazon account people already have. They sign in with their Amazon login, pay with a card already on file and get Amazon's email and push alerts while the food is on its way. Uber Eats shows up only at the end, with the final order confirmation. Through Amazon Family, a member can extend the perk to a second adult living in the same home. Amazon says it covers nearly 10,000 cities and towns, Los Angeles among them.

Grubhub is out. An Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch that the Grubhub agreement ended Thursday and that the company keeps reviewing its third-party offers, and Grubhub confirmed the split. Prime members can't order Grubhub through Amazon anymore. Anyone who had already activated the free Grubhub+ membership keeps it through Dec. 31, 2027, TechCrunch reported.

Amazon has tried takeout twice before. It ran its own Amazon Restaurants service until shutting it down years ago, then started giving Prime members free Grubhub+ in 2022. By 2024 that was a permanent perk, plus a deal that could have raised Amazon's stake in Grubhub to as much as 18%, according to TechCrunch. Citing Just Eat Takeaway's annual report, TechCrunch reported that Amazon cashed out its exercisable warrants in December 2024. Just Eat Takeaway owned Grubhub at the time.

The Verge argues the lesson stuck: renting Uber's couriers costs Amazon less than building its own delivery for hot meals again. Uber's side of the trade, in The Verge's telling, is a shot at tens of millions of Prime shoppers it never had to win with paid app-store ads. It also gets help against DoorDash, the bigger delivery company, which is merging with Instacart. Per TechCrunch, the two companies already work together on cloud computing, Zoox robotaxis and Uber Eats inside Amazon's Alexa+ assistant.

To get people ordering, Amazon's announcement says that during the launch's first 14 days, a member's opening pair of Uber Eats orders each gets $20 knocked off, provided each comes to at least $25. Prime Visa cardholders earn 5% back on all Uber Eats orders through Dec. 5, Amazon says.

The two companies put the possible yearly savings at upward of $175, a figure Amazon points out beats the $139 annual Prime fee. Hitting that number, The Verge figures, probably takes a takeout habit of several deliveries a month. It also notes that the $25 minimum pushes a solo lunch order into buying extra food just to dodge a few dollars of delivery.

Amazon's own fine print sets narrower terms. According to the footnote on the company's release, the estimate assumes a member places the "typical" number of orders, based on August 2026 data. The comparison point is a customer who orders straight from Uber Eats and doesn't pay for Uber One. "Savings per order will vary and are not guaranteed," the footnote says.

Source: The Verge, retrieved November 5, 2026. Other sources: aboutamazon.com, TechCrunch, press.aboutamazon.com.