Amazon adds 1-hour and 3-hour delivery options in the US

Amazon is launching one-hour and three-hour transportation options crossed galore cities successful the U.S. arsenic the e-commerce elephantine looks to vie with instant transportation companies similar Instacart, DoorDash and Uber Eats.

The e-commerce elephantine is making much than 90,000 items disposable via this caller transportation system. If an point tin beryllium delivered to a idiosyncratic wrong 1 oregon 3 hours, they’ll spot a statement saying truthful adjacent to that point connected the Amazon app. There’s besides a filter for these caller transportation options successful the app and site.

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Amazon Prime subscribers volition beryllium charged $9.99 for one-hour deliveries and $4.99 for three-hour deliveries. If you don’t person a Prime subscription, you’ll wage $19.99 for one-hour deliveries and $14.99 for three-hour deliveries.

Amazon said it is making the one-hour transportation enactment disposable successful hundreds of cities successful the U.S., including parts of large metropolitan areas similar Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., arsenic good arsenic Des Moines, Boise, and American Fork. The three-hour enactment is disposable successful implicit 2,000 U.S. cities and towns.

The institution is besides launching a dedicated storefront to location items eligible for these caller transportation options.

“Our customers are busier than ever and are looking for caller ways to prevention clip portion keeping their households running. We saw an accidental to usage our unsocial operational expertise and transportation web to assistance marque customers’ lives a small easier portion unlocking adjacent much worth for Prime members,” Udit Madan, elder vice president of Worldwide Operations astatine Amazon, said successful a statement.

The institution said it is utilizing its existing, same-day fulfillment sites for the caller transportation options.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Amazon has tried its manus astatine instant deliveries. The institution antecedently launched one-hour deliveries nether the “Prime Now” work successful 2014, but it was discontinued successful 2021. And past successful December 2025, it piloted a 30-minute transportation enactment successful Seattle and Philadelphia.

The institution has been trying to get into the speedy commerce crippled worldwide. In India, the institution successful 2024 launched Amazon Now, a 10-minute transportation work for groceries and different items, and past twelvemonth expanded it to respective cities. Amazon launched the work successful the United Arab Emirates past October, promising deliveries wrong 15 minutes.