Cheapest ways for Fire Stick owners to watch Amazon TV and movies revealed – and paying £9 for Prime is priciest option

YOU might be paying over the odds for Amazon's telly service on your Fire Stick. If you have an Fire TV or Fire Stick, there are several different ways to bag Amazon Prime Video. And depending on your situation, you could get a year's supply of the service for well under £30. That's much cheaper than forking out £8.99 a month for Amazon Prime. Sadly, beyond using free trials, there's no way to get Prime Video without paying – not legally, anyway.

But you can potentially trim your yearly Prime Video outgoings and get access to the full roster of TV shows and movies on offer. By far the most expensive way to get Prime Video is by paying for a full Amazon Prime membership each month. You'll be paying £8.99 every month, which works out at a whopping £107.88 a year. Of course, the advantage of Prime is that you get loads of other perks with it – including speedier deliveries.

In fact, The Sun recently revealed how you can claim over £162 worth of Amazon Prime freebies that you might have missed. If you're desperate to keep Amazon Prime, a slightly cheaper option is to pay annually. You'll need to fork out the money upfront, but it means you'll only pay £95 for a full year of membership. So if you can afford to chuck the money down right away, you'll save in the long run. And over the years, it'll add up to even more savings.

Next on the list is just paying for Amazon Prime Video on its own – without the bells and whistles of Prime. It comes in at just £5.99 a month, which will set you back £71.88 over the course of a year. So that's exactly £36 cheaper than paying for Amazon Prime each month. To get even more savings, you'll need to fall into a special category that millions of Brits are eligible for. Amazon has an even cheaper membership plan called Prime for Students and 18-22 Year Olds.

It began as a scheme for higher education students, but last summer Amazon expanded it to cover all 18 to 22-year-olds. That's a huge chunk of Britain's population, so if it doesn't cover you personally, you might still have someone who fits the bill at home. If you're a student, the institution needs to be in the UK or Ireland – and you'll need an email linked to it. For the age check, you just need a passport or driving licence.

Here's what you need to know... If you don't have an official recognised email for your university or college, there's still hope. You can send proof of age and enrolment to amazon-student-verification@amazon.co.uk. Make sure that you're messaging from the email address linked to your Amazon UK account (and that the account has an up-to-date payment method). And attach a scan, photo, or screenshot of either:.

If you're eligible then you should get an email back in a few days to help you complete your sign-up. Picture Credit: Amazon. This deal gets you an Amazon Prime membership for just £4.49 a month – equivalent to £53.88 a year. But you can make it even cheaper by paying for the annual version of the membership, which comes in at £47.49. That's about half the price of a proper annual Prime membership.

If you really want to save, you can get this cost down even more. That's because new members on the Prime for Students and 18-22 Year Olds can claim an extended free trial. Normally you'd only get 30 days, but the extended version gives you a whopping six months of free membership. So in your first year paying monthly, you'd only be forking out for the final six months. That means your bill in the first year would only be £26.94.

And if you claim the free trial and pay annually instead, you'd technically only be paying £23.75 for the first year. However, you'd still have to pay the full amount, but it would carry you through into the second year by six months. These final two options work out around four times cheaper than paying for a full Amazon Prime membership. So to recap, here's how the prices break down:. The bad news is that you'll lose your cheaper membership once you stop being a student – or when you turn 23.