Beyond the GitHub Pack

Student Benefits Beyond the GitHub Pack — No Pack Required

Every program in our directory you can claim WITHOUT the GitHub Student Developer Pack: standalone student plans, self-serve free tiers and education offers. No school-email pack verification needed for these — just a student identity or, often, nothing but an account.

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Microsoft Azure

$100 credit (usable within 12 months) + free monthly allowances on 20+ services for 12…

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AWS

Free courses + hands-on labs + digital badges

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JetBrains

All IDEs free (details pending: only the page title was captured)

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Cursor (Anysphere)

A free tier available to everyone ("Anyone can get started with Cursor for free")

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Namecheap

Known: a free domain for students for the first year (

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Namecheap

Free

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Figma

Figma and FigJam are 100% free for students and educators

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Notion

Free individual workspace: unlimited pages and blocks, file uploads, more customization…

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Canva

100% free Education plan for eligible teachers, students, and school staff

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Perplexity AI

Perplexity Pro for $10/month (50% off)

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Wolfram Research

Wolfram|One Desktop + Cloud: latest version of the Wolfram Language, two activation keys…

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Netlify

300 credits included per month (credit limit)

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Vercel

$0/mo

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Render

Hobby workspace $0/mo

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Railway

30-day free trial with $5 in credits, then $1/month

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Cloudflare

Unlimited sites, unlimited seats, unlimited requests, unlimited bandwidth

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ElevenLabs

$0/month

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Auth0 (Okta)

$0/month

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Supabase

$0/month

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Clerk

Free

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Replit

Create apps for free and publish your first project: daily-refreshing Agent credits (with…

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Postman

Free plan for individual API development and testing: 100 AI credits, API client and core…

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Twilio

Free trial to start, no credit card required, unlocking all Twilio products (including…

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Apple

Paid membership unlocks: the latest Xcode and OS betas, TestFlight (invite up to 10,000…

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

A new AWS Free Tier account gets $100 in credits immediately, plus up to $100 more for…

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Microsoft 365 (Microsoft)

50% off Microsoft 365 Personal at $4

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Notion

Free Education plan (Plus-tier features): unlimited pages and blocks, unlimited file…

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Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Free developer tools, cloud services, and training: Visual Studio Community, Visual…

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Clerk

The Clerk Pro plan free (officially listed at $240/year): same usage limits as Pro,…

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GitHub

Personal free accounts get 120 core hours or 60 hours (2-core) per month + 15 GB storage

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GitHub

1 user site per account/organization + unlimited project sites (public repositories…

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Appwrite

Free organizations are 100% free (specific quotas live in an interactive table that…

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New Relic

100 GB/month of data ingest free + unlimited basic users + 1 full platform user + 500…

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Doppler

Free for 3 users (10 projects / 4 environments / 50 service tokens, etc

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CodeScene

Free Community Edition for open-source projects

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Visme

Free tier: unlimited projects + 500MB storage + 10 AI credits per month (with Visme…

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Interview Cake

Free trial of 3 questions + free 7-day email course + a free weekly practice question

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Arduino

Free online editor (forever) + Free tier: 2 Things with 5 variables each, 100K ingestions…

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LocalStack

Emulation of 30+ AWS services, 1 personal sandbox, CI testing, VS Code integration

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Deepnote

Unlimited basic machines (5GB RAM/2vCPU), 3 collaborators, 5 projects, 7-day revision…

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ToDiagram

Diagram creation and editing + store and share up to 3 diagrams + basic PNG/JPEG export +…

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Pageclip

1 site + 1 form + 1,000 submissions

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HazeOver

Free trial (dmg download) + available through Setapp

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Xojo

The IDE itself is free to download and use

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Codecov

Unlimited coverage uploads for public repos

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ConfigCat

Free forever: 10 feature flags / 2 environments / unlimited members / 5M config downloads…

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GoRails

The forum is free

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Requestly

30-day full-feature trial (no credit card required)

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Working Copy

The free version covers basic Git features

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GitHub (Primer)

GitHub's official handcrafted icon set, roughly 390 icons (6 categories, including…

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POEditor

Free: 1,000 strings + unlimited projects + 5 contributors + API + AI translation

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Astra Security

$7 one-week trial

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GitHub

A completely free, open source graphical Git client (community support

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Imgbot

Free forever for open source (automated compression PRs for public repos)

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CARTO

A 30-day evaluation trial only (no extensions)

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SQLGate

Free version (basic features)

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Google Gemini

Eligible US students get 12 months of Google AI Pro free (valued at $19

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OpenAI

4 free monthly billing periods of ChatGPT Plus (about $80 in value)

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Perplexity

Pro subscription at the student price of $10/month (standard $20/month) — note: no longer…

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Windsurf

Discounted subscription for 12 months (terms still lingering)

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Replit

An AI app-building platform for students/educators/universities, free to start

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Adobe

$19

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Miro

Student plan is free: 10 members / 2 years / unlimited boards / 100 AI credits per month

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Airtable

50% off Team for education staff

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Zapier

The pricing page only offers a 15% nonprofit discount, with no education/student options…

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Framer

Free Basic plan while enrolled (worth $120

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Webflow

The page still advertises 50% off the CMS plan for one year when you sign up with a…

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Notion

Individual students and teachers: a 1-person workspace free forever (unlimited…

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Microsoft

Self-serve tier: $1,000 (90 days) + $4,000 after verification (180 days)

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AWS

Founders self-serve from $1,000 (up to $5,000 if selected)

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Google Cloud

Start tier: up to $2,000 (1 year)

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Cloudflare

Three tiers: $10k (self-funded) / $100k / $350k, valid for 1 year

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Stripe

$500 to incorporate a Delaware company + EIN + legal templates

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Notion

Business plan (AI included) free for up to 6 months (worth up to $12,000 for up to 100…

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Intercom

Fin AI Agent free for 1 year + 93% off the helpdesk in year one (from $65/month) + $500K…

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Twilio Segment

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Twilio

Free account with a small trial balance

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HubSpot

90% tier: 90% off year one / 50% year two / 25% year three

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Zendesk

6 months free of Suite Professional (50 agents) + up to 2 years with a partner affiliation

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Freshworks

Both /startups and /fuse return 404

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Oracle Cloud

Always Free: 4 OCPU Arm VM (1,500 OCPU-hours per month), 2 Micro VMs, 200GB storage, 10TB…

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Fly.io

No free tier

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Koyeb

Free Postgres (0

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Neon

100 projects with 10 branches each, 1GB storage per project, 100 CU-hours per project,…

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Turso

100 databases / 5GB storage / 500 million row reads per month / 10 million row writes per…

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Convex

Per month: 1 million function calls / 0

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Xata

Pivoted to branch-native Postgres

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Zyte

$5 credit on sign-up (first billing month)

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Vultr

New accounts get up to $100 matched on their first deposit + limited-time $200 credit…

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Deno Deploy

Per month: 1 million requests / 20GiB egress / 10 hours CPU / 150 GiB-hours memory / 10…

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Cloudflare Workers

100,000 requests per day / 10ms CPU per invocation / unlimited free static assets + free…

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Honeybadger

Free Developer plan forever (5,000 errors/month, unlimited projects)

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Dashlane

Premium free for 6 months (Pack path) or a 1-year trial with a university email

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Scrimba

1 month of Scrimba Pro (full access to all 40+ courses)

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GitKraken

6 months free (including GitKraken Desktop Pro, GitLens Pro, and the CLI)

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IconScout

1 year of Premium: 60 premium icons per month + access to 3D/Lottie assets

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BrowserStack

Free 1-year subscription (testing on 2,000+ browsers and real mobile devices)

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AlgoExpert

20 interview questions free + 10% off all products (the widely shared 60%-off claim is a…

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Simple Analytics

1 year of the Simple plan free (10 websites, 100,000 pageviews/month, privacy-first and…

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Google Cloud

200 free Skills learning credits (valid for 1 year) + $300 trial available to everyone +…

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Adafruit

1 year of Adafruit IO+ (IoT) free + 25% off select hardware (Circuit Playground…

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Grafana

10,000 active series/month + 50GB logs/month + 50GB traces + 14-day retention + 100,000…

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Better Stack

10 monitors + heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 errors/month, 5,000 session replays,…

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Axiom

500GB data ingest per month + 25GB storage + 30-day retention + full APL

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Tally

Unlimited forms and submissions (fair use), payments/signatures/file uploads/conditional…

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Formspree

50 submissions/month, unlimited forms, Ajax, spam filtering (aimed at testing and…

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Resend

3,000 emails/month and 100 emails/day, 3 custom domains, 30-day retention

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Mailgun

100 emails/day, 1 custom domain (the older '5,000 emails/month' figure is outdated)

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Algolia

10,000 search requests/month, 50,000 records, 1 app / 20 indexes / 1GB

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Upstash

Redis: 250MB storage / 10GB monthly bandwidth / 500,000 commands per month + QStash:…

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Kinde

10,500 monthly active users free, 2,000 M2M tokens, unlimited seats, B2B organizations,…

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Umami

100,000 events/month free

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Cloudflare

R2: 10GB storage/month + 1,000,000 Class A operations + 10,000,000 Class B operations +…

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freeCodeCamp

All courses/projects/certifications 100% free (about 300 hours per certification), open…

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The Odin Project

Complete full-stack curriculum (JS and Rails paths) + dozens of portfolio projects +…

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Coursera

Take the course and earn the certificate free once approved

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edX

Free access to videos/reading materials (temporary, time-limited access)

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Codecademy

$0 forever for basic courses (labeled "Limited under Basic") + community + mobile app

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Frontend Mentor

Free library of real-world challenges (HTML/CSS/JS/frameworks) + 1 AI review per month

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roadmap.sh

31 role-based roadmaps + 59 skill maps + hands-on projects + interview questions, all…

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LeetCode

Free question bank (most Easy/Medium problems are free

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GitHub

Hands-on courses inside repositories (GitHub basics/Actions/Copilot/code security)

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Mozilla

Free structured web development curriculum…

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Harvard University

All 11 weeks of materials free + a free CS50 certificate if you meet the bar (problem…

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Kaggle

Free micro-courses (Python/ML/DL) + 30 hours of free GPU per week (since 2024, linking…