Last Updated on 19 June 2026 by Dan Wilderness
Hello everyone! It’s amazing how much Deliveroo has become a feature of modern life in cities. It feels like those speedy green delivery bags are everywhere! Deliveroo has a premium service for regular users called Deliveroo Plus – today we’re reviewing this and asking our classic question – is it worth it?
As with many people in the UK as much as I love cooking for myself, I also really appreciate the odd takeaway! What I do like about Deliveroo is that it’s opened up favourites that would not normally have done takeaway to home delivery.
With a baby, the occasional Deliveroo is useful and in some cases essential! I’ve mainly been a Deliveroo Plus Silver user for several years now via the Amazon Prime benefit which I’ll cover below.
Quick Verdict on Deliveroo Plus
Many people can get Deliveroo Plus for free in some form and subscribing to Deliveroo Silver if you can via this is a no-brainer.
Whilst takeaways aren’t cheap, Deliveroo Plus can credibly save you money if ordering more than 2 takeaways a month, but keep an eye out for catch outs on minimum orders and that discounts don’t apply to service fees.
How we tested Deliveroo Plus
We have Deliveroo Silver for free by default via Amazon Prime and have upgraded to Deliveroo Plus Gold in the past where ordering more takeaways, and assessed our savings through these periods.
What is Deliveroo Plus?
Deliveroo Plus is a premium service offered by the food delivery company for those who order food or groceries frequently by allowing a one off fee to be paid as opposed to regularly paying delivery costs.
It’s therefore aimed at those who are using Deliveroo at least a couple of times a month – from the perspective of Deliveroo, they’re wanting to encourage you to use the service more frequently.
Deliveroo Plus is done on a three-tier basis, mainly with Silver and a Gold offering, with Gold offering more benefits but at a higher price point. We’ll focus on comparing these, but there is a secret additional tier in the form of Diamond which is invitation only.
What do you get with Deliveroo Plus Silver vs. Gold vs. Diamond?
Deliveroo Plus has three different levels of membership – both offer free delivery but have different restriction and price points. We’ve included details below or here’s Deliveroo’s webpage on the offerings.
Deliveroo Plus Gold Benefits and Pricing
Deliveroo Plus Gold offers free delivery with orders for food over £10, or groceries of over £15. It also comes with an on-time promise, which gives a £5 rebate for any delivery not on time.
Deliveroo Plus Gold also offers a cashback programme when spending above £30 at takeaways where you’ll get 10% back. This is valid on selected takeaways only (but seems to be on most places around where I’ve tested it).
Your cashback cannot be taken as cash – it’s effectively restaurant credit against a future takeaway order.
You are also promised a capped Deliveroo service fee of £1.49. Each service fee is unique to order size and distance travelled so it’s hard to calculate an exact benefit to this, but offers more potential benefit to those making large takeaway orders.
This costs a £7.99 per month subscription.
Deliveroo Plus Silver Benefits and Pricing
Deliveroo Plus Silver offers free delivery with orders for food over £15, or groceries over £25.
This costs a £3.49 per month subscription.
Deliveroo Plus Diamond
There is also a hidden tier of Deliveroo Plus called Diamond but it’s invitation only, with promises of invitations to special events. Its official price is supposed to be £19.99 per month, but we’ve heard of some invited users being asked for £25 per month.
The biggest touted benefit here is that if your order is more than 10 minutes late, they’ll refund the full value of the meal. It sounds good, but I always regard this as a bit of a false benefit – most delivery services build in quite a bit of safety time into stated delivery times to cover themselves.
Deliveroo Plus Tiers Compared
We’ve included a comparison table here to show the different levels of Deliveroo Plus compared against each other:
| Feature | Plus Silver | Plus Gold | Plus Diamond (Invite-Only) |
| Monthly Cost | £3.49 | £7.99 | £19.99 (Up to £25 for some) |
| Free Delivery (Restaurants) | Orders over £15 | Orders over £10 | Orders over £10 |
| Free Delivery (Groceries) | Orders over £25 | Orders over £15 | Orders over £15 |
| Cashback / Credit Reward | None | 10% back on orders over £30 | 10% back on orders over £30 |
| On-Time Promise | Standard | £5 credit if >15 mins late | Full order value credit if >10 mins late |
| Unique Perks | Free with Amazon Prime / UNiDAYS | Exclusive subscriber-only offers | Free Priority Delivery, VIP Events |
Is Deliveroo Plus worth it?
It depends on what you order regularly and therefore how much you save on the order. Living in Zone 2 London, I found delivery fees for places around me ranged from about £0.99 through to £3.99, with most being in the £2.50 region.
On this basis, I’ve analysed each of the two options of Deliveroo Plus Silver and Gold to see if they’re worth it, using £2.50 as a basis:
Is Deliveroo Plus Silver worth it?
I would generally save money by using Silver so long as you’re ordering more than 2 takeaways from Deliveroo per month.
You need to be mindful of the £15 minimum on orders. Couples will hit this comfortably but someone with a single order may need to add some items on to hit that threshold – which may not actually save you any money.
Further down this article I note how you can get Deliveroo Plus Silver for free, which is clearly a no brainer.
Is Deliveroo Plus Gold worth it?
The £7.99 outlay per month is quite hefty, and so you’d really need to be a frequent Deliveroo user of 4 times per month to break even.
However we should highlight Gold is really worthwhile if you’re making particularly large orders and it’s possible to bring this payback period down to 2 orders in a months or further owing to the 10% cashback on all orders over £30 rule – hitting this will give you £3 of value instantly. If you’re ordering a takeaway for a large group you can make your money back straight away.
Remember your order also needs to be a minimum of £10 to qualify, but most takeaways will hit this threshold.
I’m very cynical about the value of the on-time delivery benefit, just because time and margin is usually built into deliveries to ensure a late delivery is nearly impossible – so I tend to take the value of this with a bit of a pinch of salt.
Is Deliveroo Plus Diamond worth it?
So we have to caveat this with that Deliveroo Plus Diamond is the one level we haven’t been a part of, so I haven’t been able to assess the VIP events that form part of this tier. If anyone has attended one, please do write in!
Beyond that, we’d struggle to justify the large monthly cost, as the only other significant uplift is the full meal being refunded if more than 10 minutes late. As discussed elsewhere, we view this as having limited value as delivery services build in contingency time to manage the risk of this.
Break-Even Table for the Deliveroo Plus Tiers
Here’s a breakeven table for the Deliveroo Plus tiers, assuming a £2.50 delivery fee that doesn’t meet the large order cashback benefits. Orders of more than £30 will improve the breakeven rate at Gold and Silver level.
| Subscription Tier | Monthly Cost | Assumed Delivery Fee | Orders Needed to Break Even | Secret to Faster Break-Even |
| Plus Silver | £3.49 | £2.50 | 2 Orders (over £15) | Link your Amazon Prime account to get this tier 100% free. |
| Plus Gold | £7.99 | £2.50 | 4 Orders (over £10) | Place just 2 orders over £30 to trigger the 10% cashback. |
| Plus Diamond | £19.99 | £2.50 | 8 Orders (over £10) | Theoretically possible to get “Full Refund” credit if your orders frequently arrive late. |
Overall Review of Deliveroo Plus
Verdict: We think Deliveroo Plus is a fairly designed scheme that if you like a frequent takeaway is something that can potentially save you money, but you need to be clear there’s a few catch outs like service fees and minimum orders.
There are quite a few opportunities to get Deliveroo Plus Silver for free (we’ve got details on how below this section) and so even infrequent users should take advantage of this.
We knocked our star off for the fact that Deliveroo still has not insubstantial service fees, which really form the bulk of their charges rather than the delivery cost. They don’t hide this, but savings on this really only come at Gold level.
The Diamond level sounds fancy as it’s invitation only, but realistically getting refunds on a late meal is quite unlikely given time contingencies are in place. What we can’t judge is the VIP events, as we haven’t been a member at this level ourselves.
It’s a subscription service you need to do the maths for, and as with all subscriptions you need to be careful it doesn’t sit there unused when you’re paying for it.
However, if you do frequently and reliably order more than 2 takeaways a month give it serious consideration. If you can get Deliveroo Plus Silver for free, that’s a no brainer.
Advantages
- Can save you money on delivery fees if a frequent customer
- Silver / Gold system lets you find the right level of service for you.
- A number of ways to get Deliveroo Plus Silver for free
Disadvantages
- Minimum spends can mean single people or small orders don’t benefit
- Service fees still apply to orders
- Subscription service to easy to pay for something unused.
- We question late order benefits at Gold and Diamond level.
How to get Deliveroo Plus for Free
There are three methods that can mean you can get Deliveroo Plus Silver for free:
Free Deliveroo Silver with Amazon Prime
One key benefit of an Amazon Prime subscription is that it provides free Deliveroo Plus Silver membership for 1 year – if you’ve got a Prime subscription, well worth having!
You can activate this either by going to Amazon, clicking “account and lists” under your username and selecting “My Prime Membership” then scrolling down to where it says Deliveroo Plus.
Or the easier way to do this is by going to http://deliveroo.co.uk/amazon-prime and logging into your Deliveroo account where you’ll be prompted to link the accounts.
Free Deliveroo Silver for Blue Light Card Holders
Those working for the NHS or emergency services can also get Deliveroo Plus for free via the Blue Light Card.
To take advantage of this, go to the Blue Light Card website, sign in and get the code from the website. Then go to the “vouchers and credit” section of the account bit of the Deliveroo website or App and enter the code to activate the offer.
Free Deliveroo Silver via Deliveroo Students
It’s not labelled as such, but there’s a new service called Deliveroo Students which will give you fairly similar benefits including free delivery – but also a range of student specific offers to take advantage of which will appear in the Deliveroo App once activated.
You can sign up to Deliveroo Students here – you don’t even need a student card to do this, just an academic e-mail address. You can also use a UniDay’s or Student Beans Account.
How do I subscribe to Deliveroo Plus?
Click on the account button within the Deliveroo App or on the Deliveroo web page, and you’ll see an option for Deliveroo Plus – clicking this will open up a screen showing you the different membership options.
An picture from the app below to illustrate the point:
If you are a new user, it’s also worth looking at the app before you subscribe, as you’ll often find you’ll be offered a free trial.
Just be aware that these will automatically sign you up to a recurring subscription which catches many people out, so take care to cancel immediately unless you actively want to subscribe.
FAQ’s about Deliveroo Plus
Click on the account button within the Deliveroo App or on the Deliveroo web page, and you’ll see an option for Deliveroo Plus.
When you click on this, you’ll see an option for “My Subscription” – if you click on this, there’s on option to cancel your membership in there.
One thing to be cautious of with all delivery services is that groceries and restaurant items are not necessarily the same price that they are in-store and often more expensive.
Specific differences tend to vary considerably depending on who you’re ordering from, but it seems quite common to see 50p to £1 added on to items.
If you’re order multiple items, this can really start to hit your wallet so something worth considering, as it can be a hidden cost of delivery apps!
Ordering from supermarkets tend to be a particular pain point here – some analysis from Which? found that the markups could often be in the 20%-25% region.
No, it only removed the Delivery fee. Service fees and small order fees still apply.
We know some of the student services have offered free Deliveroo Plus Gold in the past, but right now only the routes we list above to get Deliveroo Plus Silver for free like Amazon Prime or being a Blue Light Card holder are applicable.
Tips to save money on Deliveroo orders
As well as Deliveroo Plus, we found a few other offers and schemes out there to try and minimise the cost of our takeaways!
American Express Gold Card Benefit
If you have a frequent takeaway order, the American Express Gold card can be worth considering. You get a £5 Deliveroo credit to use twice a month, automatically applied when you pay with the card.
We’ve reviewed the American Express Gold Card as part of our wider review of Reward Credit Cards here.
Order Discounted Gift Cards
One way you can save some money is by buying a Deliveroo gift card from a reputable merchant like TopGiftCards. This is because providers order the cards in bulk, meaning they can pass a discount onto you.
This will let you save 5-10%ish, however obviously your money is tied up in the gift card once ordered.
We’ve written a full guide to saving money with gift cards more widely here.
In App Deliveroo Discounts
These are somewhat unpredictable, but Deliveroo will run occasional offers in App.
Keep an eye on your e-mails and notifications to take advantage!
Comparison of Deliveroo Plus vs. Uber Eats vs. Just Eat Plus
Deliveroo’s main competition in the UK is rival subscription service Uber Eats and Just Eat, so you may be interested how the services compare.
We’ve put together a quick comparison table here to show you the key differences:
| Plan | Price | Free delivery threshold | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deliveroo Plus Silver | £3.49/m or £34.90/yr | £15+ restaurants / £25+ shops | Fees may still apply; eligible outlets only. |
| Deliveroo Plus Gold | £7.99/m | £10+ restaurants / £15+ shops | 10% credit back on £30+ restaurant spend; £5 late-delivery credit; discounted service fees. |
| Uber One | £4.99–£5.99/m or £49.99/yr | £15+ Eats / £25+ grocery | Discounts on car rides and periodic promos (e.g., Disney+ tie-ins). |
| Just Eat+ | £5.99 for 90 days | £15 for food | Subscription doesn’t automatically renew. |
There’s something to be said for all three services. If you also are taking car rides, Uber One can be really good value when used in combination with the takeaway service to save substantial money. We have a comprehensive Uber One Review here.
The Just Eat+ service is arguably the cheapest, as you pay a single one-off £5.99 fee that covers you for a full 90 days. However, Just Eat strictly enforces a £15 minimum order rule to get the free delivery, and their platform lacks some of the exclusive premium restaurant chains that you will find on Deliveroo. You can find our full review of Just Eat Plus here.
Basically the best deal depends on how you’re going to use the service, but the best approach is to find one that works for you and use it consistently, rather than fall into a multiple subscriptions trap.
Any questions?
If you have any questions, or even just want to let us know your favourite takeaway we’d love to hear from you! Just drop us a note in the comments below.
And that’s it!
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