Free AI coding tools for UK students

What a student at a UK university can actually get. Student deals checked on 6 November 2026. Where a note says “check”, it depends on your university or the company hasn’t confirmed the UK.

UK hackathons coming up

• HackTheBurghOpen

  7 to 8 November 2026, Edinburgh, in person.

• DurHackOpen

  14 to 15 November 2026, Durham, in person.

• HackSheffield11Open

  28 to 29 November 2026, Sheffield (The Diamond), in person.

• IKU Womxn in STEM HackathonExpired

  17 to 18 October 2026, London, in person.

• OxHack '26Expired

  24 to 25 October 2026, Oxford, in person.

Student deals you can get (22)

• GitHub CopilotOpen

  Copilot Student: free, unlimited code completions plus an allowance of GitHub AI Credits. UK: UK eligible (global programme)

• GitHub Student Developer PackOpen

  Bundle of free developer tool offers for students. UK: UK eligible

• KiroChanged

  1 free year, 1,000 credits/month, premium models. UK: UK: check Kiro's university list (not confirmed)

• ZedOpen

  Zed Pro free for 1 year, with $10 a month in AI token credits. UK: UK eligible

• JetBrainsOpen

  All JetBrains IDEs free; renew yearly; AI Free tier included (not AI Pro). UK: UK eligible

• Google Gemini (AI Plus)Changed

  1 year Google AI Plus free (AI Pro for US students). UK: UK: Google AI Plus (page as served in UK)

• LovableOpen

  50% off Lovable Pro for up to 12 months ($25 to $12.50 a month, 100 credits a month). UK: UK eligible

• Mistral VibeOpen

  Mistral Pro at $5.99 a month for verified students (normally $14.99). UK: UK eligible

• ReplitChanged

  50% off Replit Core. UK: UK: unconfirmed (official page says .edu email)

• PerplexityChanged

  Education Pro at $10/month. UK: UK: no official country list; depends on SheerID recognising your university

• NotionOpen

  Free Education Plan for individual students (one-member workspace). UK: UK eligible

• FigmaOpen

  Professional plan free for students and educators. UK: UK eligible

• ElevenLabsChanged

  1 year of ElevenReader Ultra free for students. UK: UK: likely via ac.uk (".edu or equivalent"), not confirmed

• MongoDB AtlasOpen

  $50 Atlas credit + free certification. UK: UK eligible

• Azure for StudentsOpen

  USD100 Azure credit plus free monthly services, no card, renew yearly while a student. UK: UK eligible

• Microsoft 365Open

  Microsoft 365 Personal at 50% off for higher-ed students. UK: UK: £3.99/month per UK deal sites (official page did not render a price, so unconfirmed)

• Google AntigravityOpen

  Free tier with weekly quota; student uplift via Google AI Pro (US only). UK: UK: free tier only

• GrammarlyOpen

  50% off Grammarly Pro for one subscription period; free via many institutions. UK: UK: check your uni

• DescriptChanged

  Education plan $12/editor/month (monthly) or $8 (annual). UK: UK eligible

• CanvaOpen

  Free via Canva for Campus (if uni has it). UK: UK: check your uni

• Zyte Scrapy CloudOpen

  Students get the benefits of purchasing 1 unit for free. UK: UK eligible (via GitHub Education)

• LettermintOpen

  Free for six months. Choose Starter, Growth or Pro with 10,000 emails a month. UK: UK eligible (European institution)

AI credits, with UK notes (12)

• Google AI Studio and Gemini API free tierChanged

  Free tier with rate limits on selected Gemini models. UK: Fine for prototyping. Google's terms only let you use paid services in apps offered to users in the UK, EEA or Switzerland.

• Groq free planOpen

  Free plan with per-model limits on requests and tokens a minute and a day. UK: Available.

• Mistral Free modeOpen

  Free mode is the default for new accounts, with limited access to Vibe, Studio and the API. UK: Available.

• OpenRouter free modelsOpen

  Model IDs ending in :free cost nothing, with per-minute and daily request caps. UK: Available.

• Cloudflare Workers AIOpen

  10,000 Neurons a day free, on the free and paid Workers plans. UK: Available.

• Azure for StudentsOpen

  USD100 credit plus free monthly amounts of popular services. No card needed. UK: Available.

• AWS Free TierOpen

  $100 in credits when you sign up, plus up to $100 more for trying services, over 6 months. UK: Available.

• AWS EducateOpen

  Free cloud and AI learning paths with hands-on labs, no AWS account needed. UK: Available.

• Google Cloud free trialOpen

  $300 credit for new customers, plus Always Free monthly usage of products like Compute Engine and BigQuery. UK: Available.

• Modal StarterOpen

  $30 of free compute credit every month on the $0 Starter plan. UK: Available.

• Hugging Face inference creditsChanged

  Free accounts get no monthly inference credits. PRO accounts get $2 a month. UK: Available.

• TinyFish student creditsOpen

  $35 in your wallet at signup, with an eligible academic email address. UK: UK eligible (.ac.uk is listed as a supported academic suffix).

Skip these: US-only or closed (7)

• CursorClosed

  Free Pro year for students: closed to new sign-ups. UK: Closed in UK too

• OpenAI CodexOpen

  $100 ChatGPT credits for Codex, expire after 12 months. UK: Not available in UK

• ChatGPT PlusClosed

  4 free months of ChatGPT Plus (Back to School): ended. UK: Not available in UK; claim window ended

• Claude / Claude CodeClosed

  No individual student discount. UK: No UK student deal

• v0 by VercelOpen

  1 year of v0 free. UK: No UK schools on the list yet

• Gemini Code Assist (individuals)Closed

  Free tier discontinued. UK: Ended

• Amazon Q DeveloperClosed

  Closed to new users. UK: Ended