The Complete Student Discount Guide, Checked Directly

Consider this student discount guide the short version of the Vault: every deal there gets its own page, but sometimes you just want the whole list in one place.

This student discount guide only covers standing programs worth knowing about, checked directly against each program's own page, not copied from another roundup somewhere else.

Free for as long as you're enrolled

• GitHub Student Developer Pack: free access to dozens of developer tools while verified as a student through GitHub Education.
• Gemini for Students: a free year of Google AI Plus, 140+ countries covered, redeem by Dec 31, 2026.
• Notion for Education: free Plus plan with a school email.
• Figma Education: free Professional plan for students and teachers.
• JetBrains Student License: every JetBrains IDE in one free license, renews yearly.
• Azure for Students: $100 in cloud credit, no credit card needed.
• AWS Educate: $100 in AWS credit plus structured cloud courses.

The rest of this student discount guide: discounted, not free

Most of what belongs here isn't actually free, it's a real percentage off with real conditions attached. These two are worth it anyway.

• Adobe Creative Cloud: reduced pricing on the full All Apps plan with proof of enrollment.
• Perplexity Education Pro: about $10/month (50% off) plus one month free. The fully-free year some older posts still mention ended in January 2026, so don't expect that version.

Not a discount, but worth your time anyway

Groundwork tracks study sessions, work, the gym, reading, and money in one private log, free as of this post, though the site states no pricing anywhere so that could change.

Every entry in this student discount guide gets re-checked on its own schedule. If something's stopped working, that's exactly the kind of thing worth telling us about.