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.