Twitch Prime: How to Get Your Free Twitch Sub

Twitch Prime is the old name for the Twitch perks that come with Amazon Prime. It became Prime Gaming in 2020, and in October 2025 Amazon folded Prime Gaming into Amazon Luna. The main perk survived both changes: one free Twitch channel subscription each month. To use it, link your Amazon and Twitch accounts, click Subscribe on a channel, tick Use Prime Sub and click Subscribe with Prime. It doesn't renew on its own.

We read Amazon's and Twitch's own pages, plus reports on the Luna change from 2025 and 2026, on October 24, 2026.

About 40,500 people search "twitch prime" each month, and 12,100 search "twitch prime sub."

What happened to Twitch Prime?

When	What changed
September 2016	Twitch Prime launched for Amazon Prime members
2020	Twitch Prime was renamed Prime Gaming
October 2025	Amazon retired the Prime Gaming name and moved its benefits into Amazon Luna
April 10, 2026	Luna stopped selling games and third-party subscriptions

Twitch blog (September 30, 2016), GamingHQ (October 2, 2025) and Reviewed (updated June 4, 2026), read October 24, 2026.

Amazon presented the 2025 move to Prime members as a rebrand, GamingHQ reported, with the Twitch perks kept. You'll still see "Prime Gaming" attached to the free games in some places, Reviewed notes.

What do you get on Twitch with Prime?

• One free channel sub a month, to "a partnered or affiliate Twitch channel of your choice," Amazon says.
• That channel's sub perks, such as "chat privileges, emoticons, ad-free viewing and more."
• Prime emotes, a chat badge and chat colors across Twitch.
• Longer broadcast storage if you stream yourself.
• Free games and in-game loot each month, now claimed through Luna.

How do you claim your free Twitch sub with Prime?

1. Sign in to Twitch in a web browser. No Twitch account yet? Create one and link it to Prime on Twitch's channel subscription page. Amazon says you'll verify with "a six-digit code texted" to your phone.
2. Go to the channel you want to support and click Subscribe.
3. Tick Use Prime Sub.
4. Click Subscribe with Prime.

Then set a reminder. "Your subscription does not auto-renew each month," Amazon warns, so you'll need to repeat the steps every month to keep supporting the same streamer. Amazon suggests the monthly Prime Gaming update as your cue.

What's the free sub worth?

About one regular sub. Amazon's guide of March 28, 2024 says a channel sub "ordinarily costs $4.99 per channel each month," the US web price. Some countries pay more. On March 28, 2024, Twitch raised Tier 1 web subs to A$8.99 in Australia, C$7.99 in Canada and £4.99 in the UK.

Twitch said at the time that it had "not increased channel sub prices since their inception" before that round.

Do you need Amazon Luna for the Twitch perks?

You need Prime, and Luna Standard comes with it "at no extra cost," Reviewed says. Prime costs $14.99 a month or $139 a year in the US, per Reviewed's June 2026 update. Luna Premium, at $9.99 a month, is an optional add-on for more cloud games. The Twitch perks don't need it.

Frequently asked questions

Is Twitch Prime still a thing?

The name is gone. The free monthly sub is still part of Amazon Prime, now under the Luna brand.

Does the Prime sub renew automatically?

No. You claim it again each month.

Can you use your Prime sub on any channel?

On Partner and Affiliate channels, which are the ones that can take subs.

How much is a Twitch sub?

$4.99 a month on the web in the US, per Amazon's 2024 guide. Since March 28, 2024 it's A$8.99 in Australia, C$7.99 in Canada and £4.99 in the UK.

Do you need Luna Premium for the free sub?

No. Prime alone covers it.

What else comes with Prime on Twitch?

Prime emotes, a chat badge, chat colors and longer broadcast storage.

Streaming yourself? Prime subs only work on Affiliate and Partner channels, and our guide to the Twitch Affiliate requirements covers how to get there. For ad-free viewing everywhere, see Twitch Turbo, and for free in-game rewards, Twitch Drops.

Sources

• Amazon, "How to redeem a free Twitch subscription each month with your Prime membership," March 28, 2024, read through our server on October 24, 2026
• Twitch blog, "Updates to Subscription Pricing," February 20, 2024, read through our server on October 24, 2026, and "Be a boss on Twitch with Twitch Prime," September 30, 2016, found in a web search
• GamingHQ, "Amazon Retires Prime Gaming Brand, Benefits Move to Amazon Luna," October 2, 2025, and Reviewed, "Everything you need to know about Amazon Luna," updated June 4, 2026, read through our server on October 24, 2026
• Web searches on Twitch Prime and Prime Gaming, October 24, 2026
• Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide, read October 24, 2026