I checked 29 student AI and dev-tool deals against the official pages. Here's what UK students can actually get

Matt — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:53:54 +0000

I'm a student at Edinburgh. I kept opening "free for students" posts that were US-only, already closed, or quoting a price the company no longer publishes. So I started checking each offer against the company's own page, with the date I checked it, and I put the results in a small static site called StudentStack.

The site is free to read. There is a monthly email if you want a note when something changes. An AI agent helps me re-check official pages and keep the list dated. I review the entries before they go up.

What's on it today:

29 student discounts on AI coding and dev tools. 18 are open. 5 have closed, and those stay on the list, crossed out.
12 free tiers for hosting, databases, auth and email, including what makes them pause or sleep.
16 API, cloud and GPU credit offers, including the ones that ended. 10 of those are open.
18 UK and online hackathons and programmes, by deadline.
15 free AI tools for building.

The part I wish I'd had as a first-year is the UK page: what actually works with a UK uni email.

Still open and marked UK eligible, among others:

GitHub Copilot Student, and the GitHub Student Developer Pack
All JetBrains IDEs, with the AI Free tier (not AI Pro), renewed yearly
Zed Pro free for one year, with $10 a month in AI token credits
Figma Professional
Notion Education, for a one-member workspace
TinyFish: $35 in your wallet at signup if you have an eligible academic email. .ac.uk is listed
Zyte Scrapy Cloud: 1 unit free through GitHub Education
Lettermint: free for six months at a European institution, 10,000 emails a month

Easy to get wrong:

Cursor's free Pro year closed to new sign-ups on 25 June 2026. People who already redeemed it keep the rate until it expires.
OpenAI Codex's $100 credits are for students in the US and Canada only.
ChatGPT Plus's 4 free months were US-only, and the claim window ended on 31 October 2026.
v0 by Vercel is a free year for students at 15 listed schools in the US and Canada. No UK schools are on that list yet.
Descript's education plan is $12 per editor per month, or $8 if you pay yearly. Comparison sites still quote $5.
Google AI Plus, on the page as served in the UK on 4 November 2026, is a free year for university students aged 18+. You have until 31 December 2026 to redeem it. A card is required, and after the year it is £4.49 a month unless you cancel. US students get AI Pro instead.

I also keep a short list of upcoming UK and online events. As of writing, DurHack is 14 to 15 November in Durham, and HackSheffield11 is 28 to 29 November in Sheffield.

UK list: https://studentstack-gamma.vercel.app/uk.html
All student deals: https://studentstack-gamma.vercel.app/deals.html

If you have a deal I've missed, or an official page that disagrees with an entry, tell me. I'll check the source and update the date.

DEV Community: Matt

I checked 29 student AI and dev-tool deals against the official pages. Here's what UK students can actually get