Students Kept Asking About Pricing. Here's What We Changed.
Over the past few months, one piece of feedback kept showing up in our inbox.
"Do you have a student discount?"
At first, I didn't think much of it. But the requests kept coming.
Some were university students learning web development. Others were bootcamp students trying to build projects for their portfolios. A few were self-taught developers coding from older laptops or even their phones.
What they all had in common was simple: they wanted access to professional development tools without adding another expensive subscription to their monthly expenses.
That feedback pushed us to rethink our pricing.
Today, we're launching a student plan for Cloudpen Pro at $6/month.
That's half the regular price, and unlike many introductory discounts, it's locked in for every renewal as long as the account remains eligible.
For anyone unfamiliar with Cloudpen, it's a browser-based cloud IDE designed to let developers write, run, and deploy applications without installing anything.
The student plan includes:
- A professional VS Code-quality editor powered by Monaco
- A real terminal environment
- Support for Python, C, C++, Node.js, PHP, Go, and Ruby
- One-click deployment to a live URL
- Automatic SSL
- Permanent hosting
- GitHub integration with automatic redeployments
- Quill AI assistant with 100 requests per day included
- Unlimited projects
- 1GB storage
- Custom domain support
- Full mobile optimization
One thing we were careful about: we didn't want the free plan to become unusable.
Too many developer tools advertise a free plan that becomes restrictive after a few minutes of use.
So we're keeping the free plan fully functional.
Free users still get:
- 5 projects
- Real code execution
- Terminal access
- Deployments
- No credit card requirement
The goal isn't simply to sell subscriptions.
The goal is to make it easier for people to learn, build, and ship projects regardless of the device they're using or the budget they have available.
If you're a student, the discount is applied automatically when you sign up using a university email address.
No promo codes. No forms. No approval process.
Just build.
What are your thoughts on student pricing for developer tools? I'd love to hear how other founders and developers approach it.
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