Almost everything is free, and some offer crazy discounts. You can become a student, study, and use all the services without even attending classes.
Absolutely everyone gets annoyed at having to pay subscription fees to use one service or another. No one wants to do it, but they have to. More than $10,000 a year for that? That's crazy.
Here is the list.
The King of Subscriptions
1. GitHub Student Developer Pack is the undisputed king of student subscriptions:
- One application
- One verification
- 100+ tools unlocked
Every other student subscription saves you money on one thing. The GitHub Student Developer Pack builds your entire development environment for free.
GitHub student developer pack
Dev & IDEs
2. Cursor Pro: 1 year 3. Copilot: free via GitHub Education 4. JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm…) 5. JetBrains Space Pro: via GitHub 6. Replit Pro: via GitHub Pack 7. GitKraken: via GitHub Pack 8. Postman Student Expert
Cursor provides a free pro version for students
Cloud & Hosting
9. AWS Educate: free labs + credits 10. Microsoft Azure: $100 credits 11. Google Cloud: student credits 12. DigitalOcean: $200 credits via GitHub Pack 13. Oracle Cloud: free tier forever 14. Heroku: credits via GitHub Pack 15. Vercel Pro: via GitHub Pack 16. Netlify: via GitHub Pack 17. Railway: student discount 18. Cloudflare Pro: via GitHub Pack
Azure gives students $100 for storage
Databases
19. MongoDB Atlas: $50 credits + free certification
MongoDB provides students with $250 to use its databases
Design
20. Figma: free Education plan 21. Canva: free Pro via Education 22. Sketch: 50% discount 23. Autodesk (AutoCAD, Maya…): 1 year free 24. Miro: free Education plan 25. Blender: completely free
The King of Design offers students free access
Learning
26. Educative: 6 months free via GitHub Pack 27. LinkedIn Learning: free via university 28. Coursera: financial aid available 29. edX: free course audits 30. Udemy: free courses periodically 31. Pluralsight: student plan 32. IBM SkillsBuild: free 33. Meta Blueprint: free certifications 34. Microsoft Learn: free 35. Google Developer Student Clubs: free access 36. Hack The Box: student labs 37. TryHackMe: student plan 38. Kaggle: free 39. LeetCode: student discount 40. HackerRank: free certifications 41. Red Hat Developer: free subscription 42. SAP Learning Hub: student access
On Coursera, students can take many courses for free
Domains & SSL
43. Namecheap: free domain + SSL via GitHub Pack 44. Free .me domain: via GitHub Pack 45. Let's Encrypt: free SSL forever
Students can host their websites completely free of charge
Productivity
46. Notion: free Pro for students 47. Microsoft 365 Education: free 48. Grammarly EDU: via university 49. Obsidian: free for students 50. Todoist Pro: discount via Student Beans 51. Evernote: student discount 52. Linear: student plan 53. ClickUp: free Education plan 54. Asana: student access 55. Airtable: free Education workspace 56. Loom: free Education plan
Full access to Notion's features
Communication
57. Zoom: free Education plan via university 58. Slack: free Education plan
I don't know who uses this, but so be it
Music & Media
59. Spotify: ~50% student discount 60. Apple Music: student discount 61. YouTube Premium: student discount
A very affordable YouTube Premium subscription
Deals & Marketplaces
62. Amazon Prime: 6 months free 63. Apple Education Pricing: discounts on Mac & iPad 64. Samsung Student Store: device discounts 65. UNiDAYS: discounts at 1000+ brands 66. Student Beans: student discounts worldwide
Big discounts on Apple products for students
AI Tools
67. Perplexity Pro: student discount 68. Google Gemini: via Google One Education 69. OpenAI API Credits: via partner student programs
One of the best AI tools, almost free
Payments & DevOps
70. Stripe: no fees on first $1,000 via GitHub Pack 71. Nvidia: student resources & credits 72. Intel Developer Zone: free access
This is just a short list of what students can get for free.
You save over $10,000 a year on all of this. You don't have to be a student. You might have a friend who can give you access, or if you are a student, you can resell all these subscriptions at a lower price and make some money.