Is Walmart+ delivery worth $98 a year?
No service fee, $7.95 delivery, and free once you clear $35 as a member. Here's what Walmart+ really costs, who it pays off for, and where it actually delivers.
Walmart+ fees, for real
actual fee sheet- Service fee
- None
- Delivery fee
- $7.95
- Delivery under $35.00
- $9.95
- Free-delivery threshold
- $35.00
- Suggested tip
- 10% suggested
What Walmart+ actually costs
Walmart+ keeps the fee stack unusually short. There's no percentage service fee — the line item that adds 5% at Instacart is simply $0 here. Delivery is $7.95 on a qualifying order, or $9.95 when your subtotal falls under $35. Membership costs $98 a year and waives that delivery fee entirely on orders of $35 or more. The only variable cost left is the suggested 10% tip for your driver. So on a $60 member basket, your all-in extra is roughly $6 in tip and nothing else.
Who Walmart+ wins for
The membership math is simple. At $98 a year against a $7.95 delivery fee, Walmart+ pays for itself in about 13 orders — roughly one delivery every four weeks. Order weekly and you skip about $413 in delivery fees across the year, so the pass nets you around $315. The other threshold that matters is $35: clear it and a member's delivery drops to $0, but a $34 basket still gets charged $9.95. Walmart+ wins for households ordering at least monthly who can consistently hit that $35 floor.
Where Walmart+ delivers
Coverage is Walmart+'s quiet advantage. A Walmart store sits within about ten miles of most of the US population, so delivery reaches suburbs and small towns that Instacart's premium partners and Amazon Fresh often skip. The trade-off is dense urban cores: neighborhoods with no nearby Walmart — Manhattan is the classic example — simply fall outside the delivery radius, and there the service won't appear at checkout at all. For most suburban and rural addresses, though, Walmart+ is the broadest single-membership grocery-delivery option you can buy.
How to keep your total down
A few habits squeeze the most out of the fee structure. Always build past $35 so a member pays $0 delivery instead of $9.95 — consolidating two small mid-week orders into one usually clears it. Because Walmart's shelf prices model as our baseline — the cheapest broadly available option on a typical basket — the biggest lever isn't the store, it's your basket: swap name brands for Walmart's Great Value line and the modeled subtotal drops further. Keep the tip aligned with real service rather than defaulting to the suggested 10%.
How to save on Walmart+
- 1Build every order past $35 — as a member that turns a $9.95 delivery fee into $0.
- 2Swap name brands for Walmart's Great Value private label to push the modeled subtotal lower.
- 3Skip the membership until you're ordering about once a month; below ~13 deliveries a year, paying $7.95 per order beats $98 up front.
- 4Consolidate two small mid-week orders into one weekly haul to clear the $35 free-delivery floor.
- 5Set the tip to match the actual service instead of auto-accepting the suggested 10%.
Frequently asked
How much does Walmart+ cost?
$98 a year. That membership waives the delivery fee on orders of $35 or more; without it you pay $7.95 per delivery, or $9.95 when your subtotal is under $35. There's no percentage service fee either way.
Is Walmart+ worth it for grocery delivery?
If you order delivery at least about 13 times a year and can hit $35 per order, yes — $98 ÷ $7.95 means the pass pays for itself in roughly 13 deliveries, about one a month. Order weekly and you save around $315 a year in fees.
What is the Walmart delivery fee without a membership?
$7.95 on a qualifying order of $35 or more, or $9.95 if your subtotal is under $35. Walmart+ members ($98/yr) pay $0 on orders of $35 or more.
Does Walmart+ charge a service fee or a tip?
No service fee at all — that's $0, versus Instacart's 5%. Tipping is optional with a suggested 10%, so on a $60 basket the suggested tip is about $6.
Is Walmart the cheapest grocery delivery?
On a typical modeled basket, Walmart's subtotal is our baseline — the cheapest broadly available option. Instacart-Aldi can model a little lower, but Aldi carries far fewer items and reaches fewer areas. This positioning is an estimate, not a guaranteed price.
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