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Developer Tools & IDEs

Free Developer Tools & IDEs for Students

IDEs, testing platforms, monitoring and everyday dev utilities that are free (or heavily discounted) with a student identity.

63 offers
53 active
10 changed or dead
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JetBrains

All IDEs free (details pending: only the page title was captured)
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GitHub

Offers from roughly 70+ partners (71 visible on the page, more including collapsed items)
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JetBrains

Unlocking the full Student Pack gets you the full versions of 10 JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ…
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Termius

All features of Termius Pro and Termius Team for free: sync SSH data across devices and…
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram|One Desktop + Cloud: latest version of the Wolfram Language, two activation keys…
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Auth0 (Okta)

$0/month
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Clerk

Free
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Codédex

6 months of Codédex Club premium membership: all course content (including Club-exclusive…
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Replit

Create apps for free and publish your first project: daily-refreshing Agent credits (with…
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Postman

Free plan for individual API development and testing: 100 AI credits, API client and core…
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Twilio

Free trial to start, no credit card required, unlocking all Twilio products (including…
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Apple

Paid membership unlocks: the latest Xcode and OS betas, TestFlight (invite up to 10,000…
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GitKraken

6 months of Pro features free, covering 4 products: GitKraken Desktop, GitLens, GitKraken…
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Polypane

Polypane free for 1 year, non-commercial work only
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LambdaTest

1 year of cross-browser + device cloud time
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Sentry

1 year of the free Education plan with monthly quotas: unlimited team members, 50K…
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Datadog

Datadog free for up to 2 years (and while you remain a student)
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Testmail

The Essential plan free (normally $12/month)
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Tower

Tower 'Pro' full version free (Git client for Mac and Windows)
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Camber (CamberCloud Inc.)

Camber Student plan free while enrolled: 40 CPU hours, 5 GPU hours, 50 GB storage, and 50…
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Stripe

$25 USD in Stripe credits to offset fees on Stripe Payments, Billing, and other products
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Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Free developer tools, cloud services, and training: Visual Studio Community, Visual…
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Clerk

The Clerk Pro plan free (officially listed at $240/year): same usage limits as Pro,…
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GitHub

Personal free accounts get 120 core hours or 60 hours (2-core) per month + 15 GB storage
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New Relic

100 GB/month of data ingest free + unlimited basic users + 1 full platform user + 500…
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Doppler

Free for 3 users (10 projects / 4 environments / 50 service tokens, etc
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CodeScene

Free Community Edition for open-source projects
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Blackfire (Platform.sh)

Profiler subscription free via the GitHub Student Developer Pack
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LocalStack

Emulation of 30+ AWS services, 1 personal sandbox, CI testing, VS Code integration
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Deepnote

Unlimited basic machines (5GB RAM/2vCPU), 3 collaborators, 5 projects, 7-day revision…
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HazeOver

Free trial (dmg download) + available through Setapp
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Xojo

The IDE itself is free to download and use
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Codecov

Unlimited coverage uploads for public repos
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ConfigCat

Free forever: 10 feature flags / 2 environments / unlimited members / 5M config downloads…
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PopSQL

Free tier: 10 queries / 2 connections / 1-hour query history
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Requestly

30-day full-feature trial (no credit card required)
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Working Copy

The free version covers basic Git features
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GitHub (Primer)

GitHub's official handcrafted icon set, roughly 390 icons (6 categories, including…
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POEditor

Free: 1,000 strings + unlimited projects + 5 contributors + API + AI translation
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Astra Security

$7 one-week trial
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GitHub

A completely free, open source graphical Git client (community support
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Imgbot

Free forever for open source (automated compression PRs for public repos)
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CARTO

A 30-day evaluation trial only (no extensions)
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SQLGate

Free version (basic features)
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Replit

An AI app-building platform for students/educators/universities, free to start
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Intercom

Fin AI Agent free for 1 year + 93% off the helpdesk in year one (from $65/month) + $500K…
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Twilio Segment

segment
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Freshworks

Both /startups and /fuse return 404
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Zyte

$5 credit on sign-up (first billing month)
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Honeybadger

Free Developer plan forever (5,000 errors/month, unlimited projects)
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GitKraken

6 months free (including GitKraken Desktop Pro, GitLens Pro, and the CLI)
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IconScout

1 year of Premium: 60 premium icons per month + access to 3D/Lottie assets
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BrowserStack

Free 1-year subscription (testing on 2,000+ browsers and real mobile devices)
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Simple Analytics

1 year of the Simple plan free (10 websites, 100,000 pageviews/month, privacy-first and…
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Adafruit

1 year of Adafruit IO+ (IoT) free + 25% off select hardware (Circuit Playground…
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Better Stack

10 monitors + heartbeats, 1 status page, 100,000 errors/month, 5,000 session replays,…
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Axiom

500GB data ingest per month + 25GB storage + 30-day retention + full APL
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Tally

Unlimited forms and submissions (fair use), payments/signatures/file uploads/conditional…
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Formspree

50 submissions/month, unlimited forms, Ajax, spam filtering (aimed at testing and…
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Resend

3,000 emails/month and 100 emails/day, 3 custom domains, 30-day retention
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Mailgun

100 emails/day, 1 custom domain (the older '5,000 emails/month' figure is outdated)
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Algolia

10,000 search requests/month, 50,000 records, 1 app / 20 indexes / 1GB
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Kinde

10,500 monthly active users free, 2,000 M2M tokens, unlimited seats, B2B organizations,…