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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.
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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 in 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
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Azure for Students Starter

  • Available only to high school or secondary students**
  • No credit card required
  • Access to a free tier ithat includes the following Azure services including: Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Notification Hubs, Azure DevOps, MySQL Database
  • 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

No cost or commitment

 
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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.
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Azure DevOps

5 users with unlimited private Git repos
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Azure AI Speech: text to speech

0.5 million neural characters per month
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12 months

Azure Container Registry

1 Standard tier registry with 100 GB storage and 10 webhooks
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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 
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Always

Azure Data Catalog

Unlimited users
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Azure Data Factory

5 low-frequency activities
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Azure SQL Database

100,000 vCore seconds of SQL database serverless usage per month with 32 GB of storage
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Always

AI Document Intelligence

500 pages S0 tier
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AI products

Everything you need to build high-quality generative AI at scale

Use your Azure student account to access powerful AI tools for free and start building today.

Azure OpenAI

Bring reasoning and multimodal versatility to your generative AI experiences with secure, scalable access to the latest OpenAI models, including the o1 and GPT-4 series.
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Azure AI Foundry

Develop and deploy generative AI apps and APIs responsibly with a comprehensive platform.
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Azure AI Search

Easily find the information you need when you need it with a state-of-the art retrieval system that uncovers hidden patterns with unparalleled precision.
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Azure AI Content Safety

Maintain a more secure digital presence with safeguards that automatically help mitigate harmful content, protect users, and enhance trust.
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Phi open models

Get powerful small language models (SLMs) with groundbreaking performance at low cost and low latency.
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Azure AI Foundry models

Experiment with and deploy more than 1,700 foundation models from creators such as Microsoft, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Meta, and Cohere.
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Resources

Build your skills for free before you build in Azure

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Fundamental AI Concepts

Curious about artificial intelligence? Want to understand what all the buzz is about? This module introduces you to the world of AI.
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Get started with Azure AI Services

Learn how to provision, secure, monitor, and deploy Azure AI Services resources and use them to build intelligent solutions.
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Develop generative AI apps in Azure AI Foundry

Understand how to select, deploy, and test various language models, and to improve performance.
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Host a web app with Azure App Service

Learn how to build and host a web app. Use the programming language of your choice with no need to manage infrastructure.
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Azure Data Fundamentals: Explore relational data

Learn how to manage relational databases, enabling you to build new applications or migrate existing ones to the cloud.
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Deploy cloud-native apps using Azure Container Apps

Develop the skills necessary to configure a secure deployment solution for cloud-native apps. Learn how to build, deploy, scale, and manage containerized cloud-native apps.
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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
    • e 
    • 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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Other account options

Not a student? Choose the Azure account that’s right for you

Pay as you go or try Azure free for up to 30 days.
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