Free credits and tools for students
At school or university? You can get cloud credits, paid developer tools and design software for free while you study, with no credit card and no company. These programs verify you with a school email or student ID.
Largest: EXIST Business Start-up Grant (Up to €3,000/month stipend per founder + €30k material costs), Up to $10,000 in IonQ research credits (Up to $10,000 in credits for 1 year), $500 in free GPU credits ($500 in credits). Some are open worldwide; others in Germany.
- Get the GitHub Student Developer Pack firstIt bundles dozens of offers and acts as proof of student status for other programs.
- Use your school emailVerification is usually automatic with an .edu or university address. Otherwise upload a student ID.
- Build something realFree cloud and database credits are enough to host a portfolio project, a hackathon app or your first startup.
- Starting a company?Many startup programs below accept student founders. Set your profile to Student to see which ones fit.
EXIST Business Start-up Grant
Supports university graduates and scientists turning research into startups.
Up to $10,000 in IonQ research credits
Accepted proposals receive up to $10,000 in credits for quantum-compute time on IonQ hardware through IonQ Quantum Cloud or a cloud partner.
$500 in free GPU credits
Qualifying pre-Series A startups, academic researchers, open-source projects, and bootcamps or programs can apply for $500 in Zylora GPU credits.
NEWHeroku for GitHub Students
Platform credits worth $13 a month for two years, for dynos, Heroku Postgres and Key-Value Store.
NEWGoogle Cloud Free Trial
$300 Welcome credit for any Google Cloud product, plus 20+ products with a monthly free tier that continues after the trial. No company needed: good for side…
NEWOracle Cloud Free Tier
US$300 of credit for all eligible Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services for 30 days, alongside Always Free compute, Autonomous Database and storage that stay…
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AWS Free Tier credits
New AWS accounts get $100 in credits at sign-up and can earn up to $100 more by completing activities such as launching an EC2 instance or setting a budget.
NEWAzure free account
$200 to spend on most Azure services in your first 30 days, plus limited free amounts of popular services for 12 months and always-free services after that.
NEWDigitalOcean free trial
$200 of free credit to use on DigitalOcean droplets, databases, storage and app hosting in your first 60 days.
NEWIBM Cloud trial credit
$200 to use on IBM Cloud in your first 30 days, plus more than 40 always-free products with no time limit.
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Akamai Cloud (Linode) free credit
$100 of credit for Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) compute, object storage, block storage and NodeBalancers during a 60-day trial.
NEWAzure for Students
$100 of Azure credit to use within 12 months on most Azure products, plus select free services. No credit card at sign-up.
NEWMongoDB for Students
$50 of MongoDB Atlas credit for a paid cluster, plus a free MongoDB certification exam and free skill badges.
12 months free on the full Cartesia voice AI stack
12 months free on the full Cartesia voice AI stack: 8M Sonic & Ink credits/month, $300/month agent credits, 2x rollover, higher concurrency; over $8,000 total…
NEWGitHub Student Developer Pack
One verification unlocks free offers from dozens of developer companies: cloud credits, domains, IDEs, databases and learning platforms. Several of them are…
NEWJetBrains Student Pack
Free licences for 10 JetBrains IDEs, including the full IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, renewable every year while you study.
NEWAutodesk Education plan
Free single-user access to Autodesk software such as Fusion, AutoCAD and Revit for learning, renewable every year while you are eligible.
NEWFigma for Education
Free Figma access for students and educators, verified per account.
Discounted or Free Access for Startups, Students, and Researchers
Early-stage startups, students, and researchers can email Agenta to request discounted or free access by sharing what they are building and how they plan to…
NEWNotion Education Plus plan
The Plus plan free for a one-person workspace: unlimited blocks and file uploads, 30-day page history and up to 100 guests. Student clubs can get Plus with…