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Use your school email to sign up and renew yearly while you're a student.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"the subscription must be renewed annually while enrolled or the free amounts stop","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"nothing to raise: the eligibility sentence is unambiguous and excludes the client on its face","evidence":[{"url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Available only to full-time university students', 'No credit card required', 'Access to full catalog of services up to free amounts and $100 credit'"},{"url":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'First 100 GB/Month Free' then '$0.087 per GB', the rate the $100 is spent against"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 100 of credit","notes":"Arithmetic: $100 over $0.087 a GB is 1,149.4 GB = 1.15 TB = 1.04 TiB, which spread across the 12 months the offer runs is 0.087 TiB a month, plus the 100 GB a month free egress at 0.091 TiB, so about 0.18 TiB a month. The no-card detail is real and is the only free-VM route that asks for no payment method, which is why it is recorded rather than dropped it still needs an institution. Candidates considered: Azure for Students Starter, which the same page offers and which carries no credit at all.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"the same Azure VM and the same public IP as the paid offer, so wg-quick is native","ingress":"udp","volume_tib_month":0.18,"volume_stated":"$100 of credit at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB, plus 100 GB a month free, so about 0.18 TiB a month across a 12-month renewal","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"the same Microsoft network and the same 100 GB a month free egress line as the paid account"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":100,"unit":"credit","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":1.04,"unit":"TiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":100,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":100,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}