Free AI tools & discounts for students

Eligible US college students aged 18+ can get the Google AI Pro student plan free for one year if they redeem by December 31, 2026. It includes 4x higher Gemini usage limits, 5 TB of storage, Gemini Spark, Gemini Omni and study tools. In other countries the student pages offer Google AI Plus free for one year instead, with 2x higher limits and 400 GB of storage. Student status is verified through SheerID, a payment method is required, and the plan renews at the normal price unless you cancel.

Lovable gives students and teachers 50% off Lovable Pro for up to 12 months. That cuts the 100-credit monthly plan from $25 to $12.50 a month. You verify by logging in with your school email, and no card is needed to verify. Lovable's docs limit the discount to the 100-credit Pro plan billed monthly. Higher tiers, annual billing, Business and top-ups are charged at full price.

OpenAI gives verified university students in the United States and Canada $100 in Codex credits (shown as 2,500 credits) to use with Codex in ChatGPT. It works with a personal ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus or Pro account. Students verify through SheerID with their university email, and the credits expire 12 months after they are granted.

Azure for Students gives full-time university students aged 18+ $100 in Azure credit to use within 12 months. It also includes free monthly amounts of 20+ popular services for 12 months (new Azure customers only) and 65+ always-free services. No credit card is required, and you can renew each year while you remain a student.

Verified students get GitHub Copilot free through the Copilot Student plan, introduced on March 12-13, 2026. It includes unlimited code completions, a monthly allowance of GitHub AI Credits (200 credits, worth $2.00, since June 1, 2026), agent mode, the cloud agent, code review and MCP, with model access through Auto model selection only. New Student sign-ups were paused on April 20, 2026, and GitHub began reopening them gradually from June 17, 2026.

The GitHub Student Developer Pack bundles free developer tools from GitHub and about 80 partners for verified students aged 13+. AI-related items include GitHub Copilot Student, Camber's free agentic data-science plan, Deepnote's Team plan and Microsoft 365 with built-in AI. It also includes GitHub Pro, Pro-level Codespaces, $100 Azure credit (18+), Heroku ($13/month for 24 months), MongoDB Atlas ($50), Stripe ($25), a free JetBrains IDE subscription and many one-year SaaS plans.

Perplexity offers Education Pro, a discounted version of Perplexity Pro for verified students and educators. It includes everything in Pro plus education-specific tips and nudges, and verified students get Learn Mode. SheerID handles verification, and the discount is applied at checkout. Perplexity's help center lists it at $10/month and mentions no free period.

Figma's Education plan gives verified students and educators free access to Figma and FigJam at the Professional tier. Higher education and bootcamp users also get Figma's AI tools, including Figma Make, with 3,000 AI credits a month. High school and K-12 users don't get the AI tools. K-12 schools and districts can get the Enterprise tier for free through a school application.

JetBrains gives students free educational licenses for its IDEs, including IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm, WebStorm and Rider, plus ReSharper and its .NET tools. Licenses last one year and you can renew them while you remain a student. JetBrains says AI Pro isn't included in free student, teacher and classroom subscriptions. Students get the AI Free tier and can start a 30-day AI Pro trial.

Notion offers a free Education Plan to students and educators at accredited colleges and universities. You need a school email. Notion's pricing page describes it as the Plus plan for free, limited to one member, with unlimited pages and blocks, unlimited file uploads, up to 100 guests and 30-day page history. Full Notion AI isn't part of the plan. Notion lists Plus with only a limited AI trial.

OpenAI's 2026 Back to School offer gives eligible US college and graduate students four free monthly billing periods of ChatGPT Plus, worth $80 at the $20/month list price. Students verify through SheerID and must add a payment method to activate it. Claims must be made by October 31, 2026.

Anthropic does not sell a discounted Claude Pro plan to individual students. Students get paid-tier Claude through their university when it buys the institution-wide Claude for Education plan, which covers students, faculty and staff. Anthropic also runs the Claude Campus program for 2026-27 (Claude Builder Club, Campus Conversations and Claude Science workshops), which pays selected student leaders a USD 3,600 stipend and gives Builder Club leads resources such as API credits to share with members. Applications for the 2026-27 cohort have closed.