Azure for Students
Verification required: confirm your student status (school email or student ID) to claim.
- Free money amount
- $100
- Duration
- 12 months
- Expiry date
- No fixed end date
- Updated
- Jan 1, 2026
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Overview
Azure for Students provides full-time university students with free cloud computing resources, developer tools, and generative AI infrastructure without requiring a credit card. Enrolled students receive an initial $100 credit valid for 12 months, free access to over 20 popular Azure services for the first year, and continuous access to more than 65 always-free cloud products. The subscription can be renewed annually as long as active student status is maintained.
Key Offer Highlights
- $100 Credit Allowance: Usable across the full catalog of Azure services within 12 months.
- No Credit Card Required: Verification is completed using an accredited institutional/school email address.
- Annual Renewal: Continue accessing free monthly allocations by renewing verification each year while enrolled.
- Spending Protection: Services pause when credit is exhausted unless you actively choose to convert to a pay-as-you-go plan.
Included Services Breakdown
Free for 12 Months
- Burstable Virtual Machines: 750 hours each per month of B1s, B2pts v2 (Arm-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) Linux or Windows VMs.
- Azure Container Registry: 1 Standard tier registry with 100 GB storage and 10 webhooks.
Always Free Products
- Azure SQL Database: 100,000 vCore seconds of serverless SQL usage per month with 32 GB storage.
- Azure DevOps: Free access for up to 5 users with unlimited private Git repositories.
- Azure Speech: 0.5 million neural characters per month via Foundry Tools.
- Azure Document Intelligence: 500 pages per month on the S0 tier.
- Azure Data Factory: 5 low-frequency activities.
Generative AI & Machine Learning Tools
- Azure OpenAI Service: Deploy reasoning and multimodal foundation models, including the GPT-4 and o1 series.
- Phi Small Language Models: Run lightweight, low-latency SLMs optimized for cost and efficiency.
- Microsoft Foundry: Access, test, and fine-tune over 1,700 open and proprietary foundation models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, and Hugging Face.
- Azure AI Search & Content Safety: Build enterprise-grade RAG pipelines with vector retrieval and automated safeguards.