Build in the cloud with Azure for Students for free
Use your school email to sign up and renew yearly while you’re a student.
OVERVIEW
Discover what you can create with Azure
Accelerate learning with Azure tools
Gain access to industry-leading technology like Azure OpenAI along with extensive resources curated for student developers to accelerate your learning.
Apply AI and cloud skills in real-world projects
Engage in interactive exploration and immediate, real-world application development, data science, and cloud computing—at any level.
No credit card required
Renew your subscription annually and continue to get free access to Azure as long as you're a student.
ACCOUNT TYPES
Choose the Azure account that’s right for you
Try Azure for Students or Azure for Students Starter—no credit card required.
Azure for Students
- Available only to full-time university students*
- No credit card required
- Free monthly amounts of 20+ popular services for 12 months (new Azure customers only)
- Free monthly amounts of 65+ always-free services
- Access to full catalog of services up to free amounts and $100 credit
- Gain access to industry-leading technology like Azure OpenAI along with extensive resources curated for student developers to accelerate your learning
- Engage in interactive exploration and immediate real-world application in development, data science, and cloud computing – at any level
- Renew your subscription annually and continue to get free access to Azure as long as you're a student
$ 100 credit
to use on Azure services within 12 months
Azure for Startups
- Available only to new Azure customers
- $1,000 in Azure credits instantly—no application required
- Unlock up to $5,000 in total credits with business verification
- Credits valid for 90 days (initial) and 180 days (post-verification)
- Access to full Azure catalog up to credit limits
- Spending protection—credit card required only for identity verification and services beyond credit*
- No upfront commitment—cancel anytime. Move to pay-as-you-go pricing after credits expire or are fully used
Up to $5,000 in Azure credits
$1,000 available immediately, plus up to $4,000 more after verification
FREE SERVICES
Create more with access to free products
Build and create with a host of free products, up to the specified monthly amounts. Some are always free to all Azure customers, and some are free for 12 months to new customers only.
Always
Azure DevOps
5 users with unlimited private Git repos
Always
Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
0.5 million neural characters per month
12 months
Azure Container Registry
1 Standard tier registry with 100 GB storage and 10 webhooks
12 months
Azure Virtual Machines for Linux or Windows
750 hours each of B1s, B2pts v2 (Arm-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) burstable VMs
Always
Azure Data Catalog
Unlimited users
Always
Azure Data Factory
5 low-frequency activities
Always
Azure SQL Database
100,000 vCore seconds of SQL database serverless usage per month with 32 GB of storage
Always
Azure Document Intelligence in Foundry Tools
500 pages S0 tier
Always
Azure Document Intelligence in Foundry Tools
500 pages S0 tier
Always
AI Search
50 MB storage for 10,000 hosted documents and 3 indexes per service
Always
Azure Machine Learning
Free
12 months
Azure Vision in Foundry Tools
5,000 transactions each for S1, S2, and S3 tiers
Always
AI Bot Service
10,000 premium channel messages and unlimited standard channel messages
Always
Azure AI Translator in Foundry Tools
2 million characters free tier
Always
Content Safety in Foundry Control Plane
5,000 text records or 5,000 images of the free tier
Always
Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
0.5 million neural characters per month
Always
Azure DevOps
5 users with unlimited private Git repos
Always
Azure SQL Database
100,000 vCore seconds of SQL database serverless usage per month with 32 GB of storage
Always
Azure Monitor
See Azure Monitor pricing details for free amounts per feature
Always
Azure Arc
Free control plane functionality for outside resources and search/indexing for Arc-enabled resources
12 months
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
750 hours of Flexible Server: Burstable B1MS Instance, 32 GB storage, and 32 GB backup storage
Always
IoT Edge
Free, open-source edge runtime
12 months
Azure Virtual Machines for Linux or Windows
750 hours each of B1s, B2pts v2 (ARM-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) burstable VMs
Always
App Service
Up to 10 web or API apps with 1 GB storage and 1 hour per day
Always
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
AKS cluster management is free. You’ll still incur charges for resources consumed by nodes
Always
Azure Functions
1 million requests
Always
Azure Container Apps
180,000 vCPU seconds, 360,000 GiB seconds, and 2 million requests
Always
Static Web Apps
100 GB bandwidth per subscription, 2 custom domains, and 0.5 GB storage per app
Always
Batch
Free
12 months
Azure Container Registry
1 Standard tier registry with 100 GB storage and 10 webhooks
Always
Azure App Service
Up to 10 web or API apps with 1 GB storage and 1 hour per day
Always
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
AKS cluster management is free. You’ll incur charges for resources consumed by nodes
Always
Azure Functions
1 million requests
Always
Azure Container Apps
180,000 vCPU seconds, 360,000 GiB seconds, and 2 million requests
Always
Azure Data Factory
5 low-frequency activities
Always
Azure SQL Database
100,000 vCore seconds of SQL database serverless usage per month with 32 GB of storage
Always
Azure Cosmos DB
1,000 request units per second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage
12 months
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
750 hours of Flexible Server—Burstable B1MS Instance, 32 GB storage, and 32 GB backup storage
12 months
Azure Database for MySQL
750 hours of Flexible Server: Burstable B1MS Instance, 32 GB storage, and 32GB backup storage
Always
Database Migration Service
Free Standard Compute
Always
Azure Machine Learning
Free
Always
API Management
1 million monthly calls free with Consumption tier
Always
Azure Functions
1 million requests
Always
Azure Cosmos DB
1,000 request units per second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage
Always
Azure Maps
1,000 to 5,000 transactions for specific mapping and location insights features
Always
IoT Hub
8,000 messages per day and 0.5 KB message meter size
Always
Azure Logic Apps
4,000 built-in actions with the Consumption plan
Always
Notification Hubs
1 million push notifications with free namespace
Always
Azure Monitor
See Azure Monitor pricing details for free amounts per feature
Always
Azure Migrate
Free
Always
Cloud Shell
5 GB free storage in Azure Files for 12 months
Always
Azure Automation
500 minutes of job runtime
Always
Microsoft Cost Management
Free
Always
Azure Advisor
Unlimited
Always
Azure Lighthouse
Free
Always
Azure Resource Manager
Free
AI products
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- We'll send you an email so you can decide if you want to move to pay as you go. If you do, you'll keep getting free monthly amounts of popular services. If you don't, your subscription and products will be disabled.
- No, you can't use your credit for Azure Marketplace offers. However, many Azure Marketplace partners offer free trials of their solutions.
- There is a limit of one account per person.
- After you create your Azure for Students account, download the tools from the Azure Education Hub.
- Through the Azure Dev Tools for Teaching program, students who have a current and active Azure for Students subscription can download certain software developer tools for free. Azure for Students provides access to all Azure products expressly for the support of education or teaching, non-commercial research, or efforts to design, develop, test, and demonstrate software applications for these purposes. Students download the tools from the Azure Education Hub.
- These Microsoft products are included:
- Agents for Visual Studio
- Azure DevOps Server
- R Client
- R Server
- Remote Tools for Visual Studio
- Skype for Business Server
- SQL Server Developer
- SQL Server Mobile Report Publisher
- SQL Server Standard
- System Center
- Visio Professional
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio Community
- Visual Studio for Mac
- Windows Server
- Free (no credit card required) with a $100 credit, which can be used within 12 months on most Azure products.
- Take advantage of Microsoft Learn. Microsoft Learn training is a free online learning platform that helps you learn Azure technologies at your own pace. Learning paths contain modules that start with the basics and then move to advanced methods that address real-world challenges.
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