Student discounts for 222 developer and privacy tools
We checked each tool against its own pricing or education page and recorded what we found, including when the honest answer is that there is no student discount at all. 31 of them have a student or education route.
Most “student discount” lists are stitched together from coupon sites and never checked. This one is built the other way round: every entry links to the vendor’s own page and carries the date we read it. Where a tool is enterprise-only, or is open source and already free, we say that instead of inventing an offer. Follow any tool through for the full answer: what you get, how eligibility is verified, and what happens when the rate lapses.
Biometric Surveillance
- Anomaly Six for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Axon for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Babel Street for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Briefcam for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Cellebrite for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Clearview Ai for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Flock Safety for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Hikvision for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Nso Group for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Palantir for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Pimeyes for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Sandvine for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Soundthinking for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Verkada for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Voyager Labs for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
Identity Verification
- Au10tix for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Clear for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Daon for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Id Me for studentsStudent plan availableID.me sells and discounts nothing itself: it verifies that you are a student so partner retailers can grant their own student discount. You browse ID.me's US or Canadian student offers, get redirected to the retailer, and click 'Verify with ID.me' at checkout. Requires active enrolment at an accredited, government-recognized US or Canadian university or college granting degrees or certificates, and age 18+. Verified against a national student-records database; no .edu email needed, and a document upload is only required if the database cannot find you.
- Iproov for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Jumio for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Mitek Systems for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Onfido for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Persona for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Regula for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Shufti Pro for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Socure for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Sumsub for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Trulioo for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Veriff for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Privacy-First Identity
- Ceramic Network for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Civic for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Concordium for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Dock Io for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Fractal Id for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Holonym for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Kilt Protocol for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Mysudo for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Polygon Id for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Privado Id for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Reclaim Protocol for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Sismo for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Spruce Id for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Trinsic for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Veramo for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
AI Video & Image
- Comfyui for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Elevenlabs for studentsStudent plan availableOne year of ElevenReader Ultra free (the app that reads PDFs, documents, books and web pages aloud) for students and professors at verified institutions who sign up with a .edu or country-equivalent email address, plus what ElevenLabs calls 'expanded access to free plans' on the main platform, the page does not specify what that expanded access includes.
- Flux 1 for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Heygen for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Ideogram for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Kling Ai for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Luma Dream Machine for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Midjourney for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Pika for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Runway for studentsStudent plan available25% off any paid Runway plan for students and educators who verify their status instantly through SheerID. Educators licensing for a class of 3 or more get up to 25% off. Runway does not publish the detailed eligibility fine print (institution type, age, plan term) on its education page.
- Stable Diffusion for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Suno for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Synthesia for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
AI Agents
- Autogen for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Crewai for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Groq for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Hugging Face for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Humane Ai for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Langchain for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Llamaindex for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Ollama for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Rabbit R1 for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Replicate for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Together Ai for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Finance & Payments
- Binance for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Brex for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Cashapp for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Gusto for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Mercury for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Paypal for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Remitly for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Robinhood for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Stripe for studentsStudent plan availableWaived Stripe transaction fees on the first $1,000 in revenue processed, claimed through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Confirmed on GitHub Education's offers page; Stripe does not publish this offer on its own site, and the exact fee-waiver mechanics are shown only after redeeming the offer while signed in.
- Venmo for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Wise for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Privacy Tools
- 1password for studentsStudent plan availableOne free year of a 1Password Individual account, including 1Password Developer Tools. After the free year, active students may be able to claim 50% off a subscription.
- Bitwarden for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Jitsi for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Joplin for studentsStudent plan available50% off Joplin Cloud for students and teachers. The discount runs for one year and can be renewed by contacting Joplin again while you remain enrolled.
- Mullvad Vpn for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Protondrive for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Protonmail for studentsStudent plan availableProton Mail Plus at 50% off on the 12-month plan only, for students in the US, UK, France and Germany. Alternatively Proton Unlimited at 62% off (also 12-month only), which includes Mail Plus alongside Calendar, Drive, Pass and VPN. Open to anyone in full-time education - university, college, sixth form, high school - or on an apprenticeship.
- Signal for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Standard Notes for studentsStudent plan available30% off any Standard Notes plan, with the exception of offline subscriptions.
- Tresorit for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Wetalkin for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Data Brokers
- Acxiom for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Beenverified for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Instant Checkmate for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Intelius for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Lexisnexis Risk for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Peoplefinder for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Radaris for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Spokeo for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Truthfinder for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Whitepages for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Facial Recognition
- Amazon Rekognition for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Azure Face Api for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Cognitec for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Deepface for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Facefirst for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Kairos for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Megvii for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Nec Neoface for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Oosto for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Sensetime for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
AI Coding Tools
- Continue Dev for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Cursor for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Github Copilot for studentsStudent plan availableFree GitHub Copilot for verified students under the dedicated Copilot Student plan: unlimited code completions plus an allowance of GitHub AI Credits (GitHub does not publish the exact monthly credit figure for this plan), and limited chat and agent usage restricted to auto model selection. It comes bundled with the wider Student Developer Pack of partner offers.
- Jetbrains Ai for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Lovable for studentsStudent plan available50% off Lovable Pro, $12.50/month for up to 12 months. On plans other than the Pro 100-credits monthly plan it applies as a $12.50/month reduction. Only available to accounts currently on the free plan, so existing paying customers do not qualify, and the discount is non-transferable.
- Replit for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Tabnine for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- V0 for studentsStudent plan availableOne year of v0 premium free for verified students at participating schools.
- Windsurf for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
Hosting & Deployment
- Aws for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Cloudflare for studentsStudent plan availableOne year of Cloudflare Workers Paid with the $5/month fee automatically waived for 12 months, plus higher usage allotments than the free plan (500 Worker scripts, 10 million requests/month, 20 million logs/month). US only: you need a valid .edu email address, must be 18 or over, and must be currently enrolled in an eligible US educational program. After 12 months the account reverts to the free plan unless you upgrade manually.
- Fly Io for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Heroku for studentsStudent plan available$13 USD per month in Heroku platform credits for 24 months, $312 total. Spendable on Heroku Dynos, Heroku Postgres and Heroku Key-Value Store, but not on third-party Heroku add-ons. One 24-month period per student: previous participants in this iteration cannot reapply.
- Hetzner for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Netlify for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Railway for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Render for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Vercel for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Open Source Backend Alternatives
- Appwrite for studentsStudent plan availableA free Appwrite Cloud Education plan for the whole of your studies, valid until you graduate from GitHub Education. Appwrite does not publish the plan's project count or resource limits on its education or pricing pages.
- Coolify for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Directus for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Dokku for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Meilisearch for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Pocketbase for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Strapi for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Typesense for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Productivity
- Airtable for studentsStudent plan availableQualifying college and university students get 6-24 months of complimentary Airtable access, with the length based on expected graduation date. Airtable's page does not state which plan tier the free student access grants. Separately, employees of qualifying educational institutions get a 50% monthly per-user discount on Team plans.
- Clickup for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Evernote for studentsStudent plan available40% off the Evernote Advanced annual plan for verified students.
- Linear for studentsStudent plan availableFull-time students get a 100% discount, free access for one year, on the Basic and Business plans (not Enterprise), granted for student-led programs, clubs and other educational activities. University staff and employees at qualifying institutions get 75% off. Colleges and higher-level institutions only; high schools and for-profit institutions are excluded.
- Notion for studentsStudent plan availableA free Plus plan on a one-member workspace - normally a paid tier. Against the standard Free plan you get more guests, 30-day version history and larger file uploads. You must re-verify your student status with your school email once a year to keep it. Separately, verified student organisations can apply for a free Plus plan on a workspace with unlimited members.
- Obsidian for studentsStudent plan available40% off Obsidian Sync and Obsidian Publish for students, faculty members and non-profit employees. It applies to the paid add-on services only - the Obsidian app itself is already free for personal use. Sync lists at $4/month billed annually ($5 monthly) and Publish at $8/month per site billed annually ($10 monthly), with the 40% coming off those prices.
- Todoist for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Trello for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
Social & Messaging
- Discord for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Element for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Instagram for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Meta Facebook for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Rocket Chat for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Slack for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Telegram for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Whatsapp for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
AI Chatbots
- Character Ai for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Chatgpt for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Claude for studentsStudent plan availableNo individual student discount on Claude Pro exists. Two separate things do: (1) Claude for Education, a university-wide plan an institution buys so all its students, faculty and staff get access, if your university has signed up, you get it free by logging in with your school account; (2) the Claude Campus Program, where selected student ambassadors receive a $3,600 cash stipend to lead a Builder Club, Campus Conversations or Claude Science workshops. The Campus Program cohort runs September 2026 to June 2027 and applications close 12 September 2026, check the page for the next cohort's dates before relying on it.
- Gemini for studentsStudent plan availableEligible college students in the U.S. get one year of Google AI Pro free, a plan Google prices at $19.99/mo, which raises Gemini usage limits, adds Gemini in Gmail and Docs, and includes 5 TB of storage shared across Drive, Gmail and Photos. Outside the U.S., eligible students in over 140 markets get one year of Google AI Plus free, renewing at $4.99/month; the U.S., Bolivia, Albania, Canada, Macau, Hong Kong and Tunisia are excluded from the Plus offer. Google states the offer must be redeemed by 31 December 2026. A discounted Google AI Pro plus YouTube Premium bundle is also offered in some markets.
- Grok for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Perplexity for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Phind for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
Decentralized Networks and Protocols
- Arweave for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Filecoin for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Ipfs for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Mastodon for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Matrix Protocol for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Nostr for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Veilid for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Creative & Design
- Figma for studentsStudent plan availableFree access to Figma and FigJam for verified students and educators - the Education plan is free rather than a percentage discount off a paid plan.
- Framer for studentsStudent plan availableA free Basic plan, which Framer values at $120, for one year, renewable: you can re-apply every 11 months for as long as you are a student. Basic is Framer's entry paid tier - it covers a free custom domain, hosting, built-in SEO, 2 CMS collections, 30 pages and 50 GB bandwidth, plus 1000 AI credits per month for use with Agents - so it is enough to host a portfolio or student project free, but not every Framer feature (staging, branching and site redirects stay on Pro).
- Squarespace for studentsStudent plan available50% off your first full year of Squarespace. Valid only on a NEW ANNUAL subscription plan for a Squarespace website (monthly billing not eligible); first year only. Verify student status free with Squarespace's partner Student Beans, then enter the offer code at checkout on squarespace.com. Further restrictions are in the linked Terms & Conditions.
- Substack for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Webflow for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Wix for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Quantum Computing
- Google Quantum Ai for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Ibm Quantum for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Ionq for studentsStudent plan availableUp to $10,000 in free credits per accepted application for time on IonQ's quantum computers, awarded as a grant against a project proposal rather than a percentage discount. Open to any verifiable graduate student, postdoc or faculty member at an accredited academic institution in one of 46 explicitly listed countries. Undergraduates are not directly eligible but a faculty member may apply on their behalf. Proposals are reviewed on research or pedagogical merit, feasibility and demonstrated need, on a rolling basis.
- Pasqal for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Qiskit for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Rigetti for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
AI Inference and Hardware
- Cerebras for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Google Coral for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Nvidia Jetson for studentsStudent plan availableDiscounted pricing on NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and Jetson AGX Orin developer kits for students, educators and researchers. Educators can apply for multiple discounted units for classroom use, assessed case by case. NVIDIA does not publish the discount percentage or the discounted price - you apply through the online form on NVIDIA's education store and are quoted from there.
- Qualcomm Ai Hub for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Sambanova for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
AI Agent Frameworks
- Byobot for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Devin for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Lindy for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Open Interpreter for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Browsers & Search
- Brave for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Duckduckgo for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Google Chrome for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Tor Browser for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Local and Private AI
- Gpt4all for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Jan for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Lm Studio for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Localai for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
VPN and Security Tools
- Calyxos for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Grapheneos for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Protonvpn for studentsStudent plan availableProton VPN Plus at 70% off on the 12-month plan only - the largest of Proton's three student discounts - for students in the US, UK, France and Germany. Proton Unlimited at 62% off (12-month only) also includes VPN Plus alongside Mail, Calendar, Drive and Pass. Verified through Student Beans/Beans iD; open to full-time students at university, college, sixth form or high school, and apprentices.
- Tails Os for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Backend & Database
- Firebase for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Planetscale for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Supabase for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Cloud Storage
- Dropbox for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Google Drive for studentsStudent plan availableDelivered through the Google One student offer, not a Drive-specific programme: 12 months of Google AI Plus free, which Google's student page lists with 400 GB of storage, or a discounted Google AI Pro plan with expanded storage, plus Gemini features and a discounted YouTube Premium bundle. The storage is a single Google One pool shared across Drive, Gmail and Photos, so Drive space is the practical benefit rather than a separate allowance. This is the same offer as the Gemini student programme, counted once.
- Icloud for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Dating & Lifestyle
- Tinder for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Uber for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Yelp for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Open Source Deployment and Self-Hosted PaaS
- Caprover for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Dokploy for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
- Kamal for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
AI/ML Operations
- Lightning Ai for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
- Weights And Biases for studentsStudent plan availableA free Pro licence for academic research. It includes all Pro product features, unlimited tracked hours, 200GB of cloud storage, up to 25GB/mo of Weave data ingestion, and up to 100 seats. Extra cloud storage is $0.03 per GB per month. For comparison, paid Pro starts at $60/month.
Code Hosting and Forges
- Codeberg for studentsStudent plan availableNote this is a reduced fee on optional Codeberg e.V. association membership (which carries a vote in governance), not a discount on the hosting, the hosting is already free for everyone. The minimum annual membership fee is halved from 24 EUR to 12 EUR for members with limited financial means, with students named explicitly. You set your fee to 12 EUR when applying and the Executive Board reviews the request.
- Gitea for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
Privacy-Friendly Analytics
- Plausible for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
- Umami for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Email Providers
- Gmail for studentsNot sold to individualsNot sold to individuals
Health Insurance
- United Healthcare for studentsNot confirmedNot confirmed on the vendor site
Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows for studentsStudent plan availableTwo separate benefits, both reached from the Azure Education Hub. (1) Azure for Students - any full-time student at an accredited degree-granting institution can sign up directly with a school email: $100 Azure credit valid for 12 months, free monthly amounts of 20+ popular services, 65+ always-free services, no credit card required, renewable yearly while you remain a student. Its free software downloads include Windows Server, SQL Server Standard, Visio Professional, Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio for Mac. (2) Azure Dev Tools for Teaching - this is where Windows 11 for Education and Visual Studio Enterprise come from, and only academic institutions holding a Microsoft Volume Licensing agreement can enroll. Students get that software only if their own institution subscribes; you cannot enrol yourself.
Video Conferencing
- Zoom for studentsNo student discountNo student discount
Student round-ups by category
Comparing a whole category rather than one tool? These pick the best options for students in each.
- Best ai chatbots for students
- Best ai coding tools for students
- Best backend & database for students
- Best hosting & deployment for students
- Best browsers & search for students
- Best privacy tools for students
- Best social & messaging for students
- Best finance & payments for students
- Best ai video & image for students
- Best ai agents for students
- Best productivity for students
- Best creative & design for students
- Best dating & lifestyle for students
- Best health insurance for students
- Best cloud storage for students
- Best email providers for students
- Best operating systems for students
- Best notes apps for students
- Best video conferencing for students
- Best local and private ai for students
- Best ai agent frameworks for students
- Best quantum computing for students
- Best decentralized networks and protocols for students
- Best vpn and security tools for students
- Best ai inference and hardware for students
- Best ai/ml operations for students
- Best privacy-friendly analytics for students
- Best open source backend alternatives for students
- Best code hosting and forges for students
- Best open source deployment and self-hosted paas for students
- Best identity verification for students
- Best biometric surveillance for students
- Best privacy-first identity for students
- Best data brokers for students
- Best facial recognition for students
Programmes change without notice. Each tool’s page carries the source link and the date we last checked it, always confirm on the vendor’s own site before you rely on a rate.