Github have massively overhauled their free student pack by offering a total of 94 tools rather than the usual ~20. This is perfect for any students out there studying Computer Science or related courses.
Some of the notable offers include a free .me domain, .tech domain, hosting, SendGrid, unlimited mailboxes, Azure, SQL tools and plenty of other learning resources.
Full eligibility requirements can be found here
- Be currently enrolled in a degree or diploma granting course of study such as a high school, secondary school, college, university, homeschool, or similar educational institution
- Have a verifiable school-issued email address or upload documents that prove your current student status
- Have a GitHub user account
- Be at least 13 years old
| Product | Pitch | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| AccessLint | AccessLint brings automated web accessibility testing into your development workflow. | Unlimited use for public and private repositories while you are a student. |
| Adafruit | Adafruit is an open-source hardware and open-source educational electronics company based in NYC, USA. | One year of Adafruit IO+ and discounts on selected hardware. |
| algolia | Hosted search API that provides support from front end to back end frameworks and libraries. | 100k records and 1 million operations, valid for 1 year. |
| appfigures | App Store analytics, optimization, and intelligence. | Free access to the Grow plan for 1 year. |
| astra | Security suite for your website - firewall, malware scanner & managed bug bounty platform. | 6 month access to website firewall & malware scanner |
| ATOM | A hackable text editor for the 21st Century | Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone. |
| AWS Educate | Access to the AWS cloud, free training, and collaboration resources | Free AWS Educate Starter Account for GitHub Students, worth $100. |
| baremetrics | Metrics, dunning, and engagement tools for SaaS & subscription businesses. | Get Baremetrics for free up to $2.5k Monthly Recurring Revenue while you are a student. |
| Better Code Hub | Better Code Hub provides a definition of done for code quality and actionable refactoring feedback for every push and pull request. | A free upgrade to an Individual license to analyse your personal private repos. |
| blackfire.io | Code performance measurement tool. Find & fix bottlenecks. | Free Profiler subscription for students. |
| Bootstrap Studio | Bootstrap Studio is a powerful desktop app for creating responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework. | A free license for Bootstrap Studio while you are a student. |
| BrowserStack | Test your web apps with BrowserStack's Real Device Cloud, which gives you instant access to 2000+ browsers and real iOS and Android devices. | Free Automate Mobile Plan for 1 parallel and 1 user for 1 year. |
| Canva | With Canva, anyone can create professional looking graphics and designs. Featuring thousands of templates and an easy to use editor. | With Canva, anyone can create professional looking graphics and designs. Featuring thousands of templates and an easy to use editor. |
| CARTO | An open and powerful platform for spatial data analysis, visualization, and application creation. | Free account upgrades with increased database storage, real time data, Location Data Services Credits, and premium features for 2 years. |
| Codecov.io | Codecov makes it easy to implement code coverage to develop healthier code | Free access to Codecov on public and private repositories. |
| CodeScene | A powerful visualization tool that uses Predictive Analytics to identify social patterns in your code, detect delivery risks and manage technical debt. | A free Student account to analyze private GitHub repositories. |
| Configcat | Learn feature flags with the industry leading feature flag service. | 1000 feature flags, ∞ users for free. |
| Covalence | Join an exclusive developer community and learn Full Stack web-development with no long-term commitments. | One free month of Covalence's Atomic Plan and two 1-on-1 mentoring sessions. |
| Coveralls | We help you deliver code confidently by showing which parts of your code aren’t covered by your test suite. | Free coverage for unlimited private repos on your personal account. |
| crowdin | Crowdin is a cloud-based solution that streamlines localization management. | Bronze plan for 1 year. |
| Cryptolens | License and sell your software securely. | 10 licenses and any number of end-users for free for students. |
| DataCamp | DataCamp helps companies and individuals make better use of data. Our users build data fluency while learning from the world’s top data scientists. | Free 3-month individual subscription for students. |
| DATADOG | Cloud-based infrastructure monitoring. | Pro Account, including 10 servers. Free for 2 years. |
| Datree.io | Datree is a git-based rules engine for enforcing best development practices, coding standards, and security policies on every commit. | Free Pro subscription while you are a student. |
| DeepScan | DeepScan is a platform for building better and more reliable JavaScript apps. | Free 6-month trial while you are a student. |
| deepsource | Static code analyzer for Python and Go. Detect bug risks, anti-patterns and security vulnerabilities. | Free Pro subscription for students. |
| DigitalOcean | Simple cloud hosting, built for developers | $50 in platform credit for new users. |
| Education Host | Leverage our Web Hosting platform to host assignment & project work. | Designer package for free for 1 year & discounted upgrade offers. |
| educative | Level up on trending coding skills at your own pace with interactive, text-based courses. | Get 6 free months of 60+ courses covering in-demand topics like Web Development, Python, Java, and Machine Learning. |
| EverSQL | Boost your database performance by automatically optimizing your SQL queries. | Free 6-month subscription to the Basic plan. |
| GitHub Campus Experts | GitHub Campus Experts are students who build technical communities on campus, with training and support from GitHub. | Apply to become part of the program while you’re a student. |
| Flatiron School | Learn Web Development from the premier coding bootcamp for launching developers. | Free one-month membership to Community-Powered Bootcamp. |
| Frontend Masters | Advance your skills with in-depth JavaScript, Node.js & front-end engineering courses. | Free 6-months access to all courses and workshops. |
| GitHub | Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management | Unlimited free public and private repositories. |
| GitHub Desktop | Reduces frustration and makes Git and GitHub workflows more approachable. | Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone. |
| GitKraken | Legendary cross-platform Git client that integrates with GitHub. | Free Pro account for 1 year. |
| GitKraken Glo | Legendary task tracking boards that sync in real-time with GitHub Issues. | Free Pro account for 1 year. |
| Gitpod | An online IDE for GitHub that provides a complete dev environment with a single click. | Free personal plan subscription for six months for students. |
| GoRails | Tutorials for web developers learning Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Turbolinks, Stimulus.js, Vue.js, and more. | Free access to all videos and lessons for 12 months. |
| HazeOver | Get focused while working on your projects or studying with HazeOver for Mac. | Free app license, including minor updates. |
| Heroku | A flexible, easy-to-use platform to deploy, run, and manage your apps. | One free Hobby Dyno for up to two years. |
| Honeybadger.io | The web developer's secret weapon: exception, uptime, and cron monitoring that's so awesome, you'll wish your site had more errors. | Free Small account for 1 year. |
| Icons8 | Icons8 provides design resources: icons, UI illustrations, photos and software to class up your projects. | 3-month All Access subscription with icons, photos, illustrations, and music. |
| Iconscout | Iconscout is design resources marketplace to get high quality icons, illustrations and stock images. | Download 60 premium icons per month for 1 year. |
| IMGBOT | Imgbot is a GitHub App that automatically optimizes your images. | Free image optimization for all your public and private projects while you are a student. |
| Interview Cake | Interview Cake makes coding interviews a piece of cake with practice questions, data structures and algorithms reference pages, cheat sheets, and more. | Access to the full coding interview prep course for 3 weeks. |
| JETBRAINS | Professional desktop IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and more. | A free subscription for students, to be renewed annually. |
| KALTURA | Kaltura VPaaS simplifies building smart, interactive VOD, Live and real-time video experiences and apps at global scale | $10K/year in Kaltura VPaaS credits while you are a student. |
| LambdaTest | Perform automated and live interactive cross browser testing on 2000+ real browsers and operating systems online. | Free LambdaTest Live Plan for one year. |
| LingoHub | Translation management service for web, desktop and mobile apps. | Free Professional Plan containing 10,000 text segments for students. |
| logdna | Log management platform that offers aggregation, monitoring, and analysis of server and application logs at any volume, from any source. | Up to 50 GB/month of log storage with 14 day retention for one year. |
| Luminati | Luminati offers Open-source software and Proxy networks with over 40 million IPs in any country or city in the world. | $100 credit for usage of all Luminati proxy networks and products, dedicated account manager. Valid for 6 months. |
| mailgun | Powerful APIs that enable you to send, receive and track email effortlessly. | 20,000 free emails and 100 free email validations each month for up to 12 months. |
| Microsoft Azure | Access to Microsoft Azure cloud services and learning resources – no credit card required | Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit. |
| mnx.io | Managed cloud hosting for developers. | $50 in cloud hosting credits, valid for one year. |
| namecheap | Affordable registration, hosting, and domain management | 1 year SSL certificate. 1 year domain name registration on the .me TLD. |
| name.com | Domain names, web hosting, and websites. Unicorns and rainbows come standard with our customer support. | One free domain name and free Advanced Security (SSL, privacy protection, and more). |
| NetLicensing | A cost-effective and integrated Licensing-as-a-Service (LaaS) solution for your software on any platform from Desktop to IoT and SaaS. | Basic Plan for free while you are a student. |
| Netwise | Turnkey data centre services for the hosting of critical IT infrastructure systems. | Free single unit server colocation package free for 12 months. |
| next.tech | Learn tech skills and build software directly from your browser with real, online computing environments. | Free access to all interactive courses and cloud computing environments for 12 months. |
| OneMonth | Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python in just 30 days! | Free 30-day One Month subscription. |
| pageclip | A server for your static websites and HTML forms. | Free basic plan while you are a student. |
| Phrase | A cloud-based translation management system built to accelerate the development of multilingual digital products. | Phrase Lite Plan free for up to 12 months for students. |
| POEditor | POEditor is a highly scalable localization management platform for teams. | Plus Plan for free for one year. |
| PomoDone | With PomoDone, hack and track your time and boost your productivity by applying Pomodoro technique to your workflow — eliminate distraction, sharpen focus and prevent burnout. | PomoDone Lite plan free for 2-years. |
| PopSQL | Modern, collaborative SQL editor for your team — write queries, visualize data, and share your results. | Free Premium subscription for PopSQL while you're a student. |
| PushBots | The easiest way to engage your mobile & web app users via push notifications. | Free Premium account for 6 months. |
| repl.it | An online IDE that lets you instantly code in over fifty languages. Start learning, building, collaborating and hosting all in one place. | Hacker plan, includes unlimited private repls and multiplayer invites. Free for one year. |
| Restyled | With Restyled, automatically re-format Pull Requests to have consistent style. | Run Restyled for free on private repositories while you're a student. |
| scrapinghub | Scrapinghub's Scrapy Cloud is a battle-tested cloud platform for running web crawlers. Manage and automate your web spiders at scale. | 1 Free Forever Scrapy Cloud Unit - Unlimited team members, projects or requests. 1 hour crawl time and 7 day data retention. |
| SendGrid | Email infrastructure as a service | 15K free emails/month (normally limited to 200 free emails/day) while you're a student. |
| Sentry | Track errors in every language, framework, and library. | 500,000 events/month with unlimited projects and members while you're a student. |
| Simple Analytics | Privacy-friendly analytics with a simple interface and API. | Starter plan free for one year, including 100k page views per month. |
| SOFY | SOFY automates your software testing, uses machine learning to create tests, suggests test scenarios based on product changes, customer usage data and runs at scale. | 6 months of free website and mobile app testing. |
| SQLGATE | Simple but powerful IDE for multiple SQL databases. | Access to most Standard Subscription features for 1 year. |
| SqlSmash | Productivity plugin for SQL Server Management Studio for writing maintainable SQL scripts and faster navigation. | Free standard license for students. |
| Storyscript | Storyscript is a top-level, cloud native programming language that helps you orchestrate data flow seamlessly between microservices. | Free access to the Business Plan for the first year. |
| stripe | Web and mobile payments, built for developers | Waived transaction fees on first $1000 in revenue processed. |
| 'SymfonyCasts | Master Symfony and PHP with video tutorials and code challenges. | Free 3-month subscription for students. |
| .tech domains | A powerful domain extension to convey that you belong to the technology industry. | One .TECH domain free for 1 year. |
| termius | SSH client that works on desktop and mobile. Termius securely syncs data across all your devices. | Free access to the Premium plan while you're a student. |
| testmail.app | Get unlimited email addresses and mailboxes for automating email tests with our powerful APIs. | Free Essential plan while you're a student. |
| Themelse Neve | Neve’s mobile-first approach, compatibility with AMP and popular page-builders makes website building accessible for everyone. | Free year of Neve Agency WordPress theme exclusively for students. |
| Thinkful | Learn Fundamentals of Web Development to launch your career as a developer | 1 month of access to a web development course. |
| Tower | The Git client that brings all of Git and GitHub's power to the desktop, for Mac and Windows. | Free Pro account for 1 year. |
| transifex | Localization platform that easily integrates with your code base. | Free 6-month subscription to the Starter plan. |
| Transloadit | A versatile uploading & encoding API to automate any file conversion. | The Startup plan for free, including 10GB of encoding credit. |
| Travis CI | Continuous integration platform for open source and private projects | Private builds for free while you're a student. |
| Typeform | Interactive forms, surveys & quizzes to engage and grow your audience | Free professional plan for 1 year. |
| Use Together | Remote pair programming and team collaboration tool. | Free Premium subscription while you're a student, to be renewed every 6 months. |
| vaadin | Best open source Java framework for building Progressive Web Applications. | Free Pro subscription license to access the commercial components and tools. |
| Weglot | Make any website multilingual and manage your translations through a single platform. | Free 1-year Pro Plan giving you access to unlimited languages + up to 200k translated words. |
| Wisej | Build powerful web applications in Visual Studio with C# or VB.NET. | Free Wisej Developer license plus free updates for a year. |
| Working Copy | Powerful Git client for iPhone & iPad. | All Pro features for free while you are a student. | |
Updated with links so you don't have to go Googling :)