Student Developer Pack
The best developer tools, free for students
Learn to ship software like a pro
There’s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That’s why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our partners and friends: to give students free access to the best developer tools in one place so they can learn by doing.
Eligibility requirements
If you’re a student aged 13+ and enrolled in a degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you. All you need is a school-issued email address, valid student identification card, or other official proof of enrollment
Full list of freebies
Atom Hackable Text Editor (atom.io) A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone
AWS Educate (aws.amazon.com) Access to the AWS cloud, free training, and collaboration resources
Student Developer Pack members receive $15 in bonus AWS credits for a total of $50-$115
Bitnami (bitnami.com) Install cloud applications in a single click
Business 3 plan (normally $49/month) for one year
CrowdFlower (crowdflower.com) Crowdsourcing and data enrichment platform
Access to the Crowdflower platform
Digital Ocean (digitalocean.com) Simple cloud hosting, built for developers
$50 in platform credit for new users
DNSimple (dnsimple.com) Simple DNS management with one-click services and a robust API
Personal hosted DNS plan (normally $5/month) for two years
Github (github.com) Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management
Micro account (normally $7/month) with five private repositories while you're a student
Backhands (hackhands.com) Live programming help available 24/7
$25 in platform credit
Microsoft Azure (azure.microsoft.com) A suite of Microsoft Azure cloud services and developer tools, including the Visual Studio IDE
Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio Community 2015 and the rest of the Microsoft developer tools while you’re a student
Namecheap (namecheap.com) Affordable registration, hosting, and domain management
One year domain name registration on the .me TLD (normally $18.99/year), One year SSL certificate (normally $9/year)
Orchestrate (orchestrate.io) A complete database portfolio that includes search, time-series events, geolocation and graph queries through an API
Developer account (normally $49/month) while you're a student
SendGrid (sendgrid.com) Email infrastructure as a service
Student plan 15K free emails/month (normally limited to 200 free emails/day) while you're a student
Stripe (stripe.com) Web and mobile payments, built for developers
Waived transaction fees on first $1000 in revenue processed
Travis CI (travis-ci.com) Continuous integration platform for open source and private projects
Private builds (normally $69/month) while you're a student
Udacity (udacity.com) Enroll in a Nanodegree program, and launch your career in Web and Mobile Development, Machine Learning, Data Science, and more.
Student Developer Pack members get one month free access to any Nanodegree program (normally $199)
Unreal Engine (unrealengine.com) A complete suite of game development tools for PC, console, mobile, web and VR
Unreal Engine while you're a student
Get your pack
To get access to the pack, we’ll need to verify your student status. Sign up using the form and we’ll send you an email once you’ve been verified.