Start building the future with Azure for Students!

Get a $100 credit when you create your free Azure for Students account

No credit card needed

Simply verify your student status through your school email address, and you’re ready to go with $100 in credit.

No credit card needed

Simply verify your student status through your school email address, and you’re ready to go with $100 in credit.

Free developer tools

Build your skills in trending tech including data science, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other areas with access to professional developer tools.

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Drive your career

Access free learning paths and labs to take your skills to the next level.

Drive your career

Access free learning paths and labs to take your skills to the next level.

Just imagine the possibilities

Do all this and more with your Azure for Students account.

Start building your apps

Develop in Visual Studio with your favourite language to create custom apps.

Explore AI

Cognitive Services and smart APIs enable your apps to see, hear, speak, understand and do more.

Make the most of big data

Build and train machine learning models faster with the latest open-source technologies.

Claim your Azure credit now

Explore these popular products for free in addition to your $100 credit

Visual Studio Code

DEVELOPER TOOLS

Free

Boost your productivity with a powerful, lightweight code editor for cloud development.

Machine Learning

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

Free

Workspaces

Get started with a free workspace. Only pay for the Azure resources you consume when training your models.

SQL Server 2019 Developer Edition

DEVELOPER TOOLS

Free

Build, test and demonstrate applications in a non-production environment.

Linux Virtual Machines

COMPUTE

750 hours

B1S Standard tier

Create Linux virtual machines with on-demand capacity in seconds.

SQL Database

DATABASES

250 GB

Create an SQL database that delivers intelligence built in.

App Service

COMPUTE

Web, mobile or API apps

Quickly create powerful apps for any platform or device using your choice of tools, including Node.js and PHP.

Functions

COMPUTE

1,000,000

requests per month

Process events with a serverless code architecture.

Microsoft IoT Hub

INTERNET OF THINGS

8,000

messages per day

Connect, monitor and manage billions of IoT assets.

Face

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

30,000 transactions

S0 tier

Detect and identify people and emotions in images.

Managed Disks

STORAGE

64 GB x 2

P6 solid-state drives (SSD)

Get high-performance, durable block storage for Azure Virtual Machines with simplified management.

Blob Storage

STORAGE

5 GB

locally redundant storage (LRS) hot block

Use massively scalable object storage for any type of unstructured data.

File Storage

STORAGE

5 GB

LRS file storage

Migrate to simple, distributed, cross-platform file storage without changing code.

VPN Gateway ^NEW

NETWORKING

750 hours

VpnGw1 gateway type

Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity.

Load Balancer ^NEW

NETWORKING

750 hours, 15 GB data processing, 5 rules

Standard Load Balancer

Deliver high availability and network performance to your applications.

Azure Cosmos DB ^NEW

DATABASES

400 RU/s provisioned throughput

With 25 GB of storage

Get a fast NoSQL database with open APIs for any scale.

Service Bus ^NEW

INTEGRATION

750 hours, 13 million operations

Standard tier base unit

Get reliable cloud messaging as a service with simple hybrid integration.

Container Registry ^NEW

CONTAINERS

1 Standard tier registry

With 100 GB storage and 10 webhooks

Store and manage container images across all types of Azure deployments.

Archive Storage ^NEW

STORAGE

10 GB LRS storage

10 GB LRS/GRS write and retrieval plus 100 reads

Store and manage rarely accessed data with locally redundant storage (LRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS).

Bandwidth (Data Transfer)

NETWORKING

15 GB

outbound

Transfer data inbound and outbound through our robust network of global data centres.

Text Analytics

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

5,000 transactions

S tier

Extract information such as sentiment, key phrases, named entities and language from your text.

Anomaly detector

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

20,000 transactions

S0 tier

Detect anomalies in data to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues.

Form Recogniser

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

500 pages

S0 tier

Automate the extraction of text, key/value pairs and tables from your documents.

Personaliser

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

50,000 transactions

S0 tier

Deliver rich, personalised experiences for every user.

Content moderator

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

10,000 transactions

S0 tier

Moderate text and images to provide a safer, more positive user experience.

Custom Vision

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

10,000 predictions

S0 tier

Easily customise computer vision models for your unique use case.

Computer Vision

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

5,000 transactions

S1 tier

Extract rich information from images to categorise and process visual data.

Language Understanding

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

10,000 text request transactions

S0 tier

Build natural language understanding into apps, bots and IoT devices.

QnA Maker

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

3 days

S0 tier

Create a conversational question-and-answer bot from your existing content.

Translator

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

2,000,000 characters

S0 tier

Add real-time, multi-language text translation to your apps, website and tools.

Azure Cosmos DB

DATABASES

400 request units per second

provisioned throughput

Build modern apps with a fast NoSQL database service with open APIs at any scale.

Event Grid

INTEGRATION

100,000

operations per month

Get reliable event delivery at massive scale.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

COMPUTE

Free

Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose.

DevTest Labs

DEVELOPER TOOLS

Free

Enable fast, easy and lean dev-test environments.

Active Directory

IDENTITY

500,000

objects

Enable one-click sign-in to any cloud or on-premises web app for secured identity and access management.

Service Fabric

CONTAINERS

Free

Build and operate always-on, scalable, distributed apps.

Azure DevOps

DEVELOPER TOOLS

5 users

with unlimited private Git repos

Build apps in any language using Git repos, CI/CD and build and release automation.

Machine Learning Studio

ANALYTICS

100

modules per experiment

Build powerful, cloud-based machine learning applications.

Security Center

SECURITY

Free

policy assessment and recommendations

Prevent, detect and respond to threats with increased visibility and control over the security of your Azure resources.

Advisor

MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE

Unlimited

Get personalised recommendations to Azure best practices.

Load Balancer

NETWORKING

Free

public load-balanced virtual IP

Add scale, availability and network performance to your applications instantly.

Data Factory

DATABASES

low-frequency activities

Compose and manage data services at scale.

Cognitive Search

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

10,000

documents

Include a cloud search service in your web and mobile application.

Notification Hubs

CONTAINERS

1,000,000

push notifications

Send push notifications to any platform from any back-end.

Batch

COMPUTE

Free

Scale your application in the cloud with job orchestration and scheduling for HPC applications.

Automation

MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE

500 minutes

of job runtime

Simplify cloud management with process automation.

Data Catalog

ANALYTICS

Unlimited users

Get more value from your enterprise data assets.

Virtual Network

NETWORKING

virtual networks

Provision private networks and connect to on-premises data centres.

Inter-VNET data transfer

NETWORKING

Inbound only

Bandwidth (Data Transfer)

NETWORKING

5 GB

outbound

Transfer data inbound and outbound through our robust network of global data centres.

Windows Virtual Machines

COMPUTE

750 hours

B1S Standard tier

Create Windows virtual machines with on-demand capacity in seconds.

Machine Learning

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

Free

Develop and run R and Python models on your platform of choice.

Get more for your career or classroom!

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Explore free online learning resources – from videos to hands-on labs – to develop skills for your job and career.

Try our open-source library of labs in your classroom, workshop or hackathon with AI, data science and app development.

Learn more about our most popular Azure services with quickstarts, code samples and tutorials.

What else do I need to know?

What happens once I’ve used all of my $100 free credit?

We'll notify you via email so you can decide if you want to upgrade to pay-as-you-go pricing. If you do, you’ll have access to all the popular products. If you don’t, your subscription and products will be disabled.

Can I apply any of my $100 credit towards Azure Marketplace offers?

No, your credit can’t be applied to Azure Marketplace offers. However, many Azure Marketplace partners offer free trials and/or free tier plans for their solutions.

How many Azure for Students subscriptions am I allowed to sign up for?

There is a limit of one subscription per person.

How do I download my free Developer Tools?

Visit the Education Hub to download your free software once you’ve activated your Azure for Students offer.

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Additional offers for students and educators

Azure for Students

Available to high school or secondary students^*
Limited to web and mobile app development scenarios
Access and download professional developer software
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Azure free account

Available for educators, faculty and students
Get started with a $200 credit to spend on any Azure products
Keep going with 12 months of free access to popular products
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