GitHub Student Developer Pack
- Free allowance
- Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 100/TB-month
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedstudent status verified by GitHub before any partner offer is issued
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit. For students aged 18+. unit mixed; metered on downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 100 of Azure credit |
| Limits | |
| Binding | write-gated student verification comes before the credit, and a user is not enrolled. If it were, the Azure credit's 1.04 TiB would be the next limit, which is a month at 1 TiB. |
| Identity | institution verification as a student, which GitHub establishes through the school |
| Egress | $100 of Azure credit at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB, plus Azure's 100 GB a month free, which is the same 0.18 TiB a month as Azure for Students; ingress: udp free allowance: $100 of Azure credit at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB, plus Azure's 100 GB a month free, which is the same 0.18 TiB a month as Azure for Students |
| Interface | cli GitHub Education application, then the partner's own console |
| Tooling | wg-quick on the Azure VM the credit pays for |
| Composes with | no chain for a user: without enrolment the bundle is unreachable, and if it were reachable it would be a slightly worse Azure trial |
| Reliability | the pack is re-verified annually and partner offers are withdrawn without notice |
| Notes | Arithmetic: the pack's own credit is $100 of Azure, which at $0.087 a GB is 1,149 GB = 1.04 TiB, and Azure's 100 GB a month free sits on top. Heroku's $13 a month is not a VM with a UDP ingress and is not convertible to TiB. |
| Evidence note | documented the pack's current partner list was read and no longer includes DigitalOcean |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | education.github.com/pack | 'Free access to 25+ Microsoft Azure cloud services plus $100 in Azure credit. For students aged 18+'; for Heroku, 'Enjoy a credit of $13 USD per month for 24 months' |
| 2026-10-23 | education.github.com/pack | the partner headings read are Namecheap, Name.com, Microsoft Azure, .TECH, GitHub, Microsoft 365, Notion, GitHub Copilot, DataCamp, Heroku, Boot.dev, JetBrains, Codedex, Testmail, 1Password, Educative, Termius, MongoDB, Datadog, Camber, Codespaces, Azure for ages 13-17, Clerk, FrontendMasters, GitHub Pages, Visual Studio Code, Stripe, Visual Studio Dev Essentials: no DigitalOcean entry |
More fields 7
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"wg_path": "native-conf",
"wg_detail": "the Azure credit inside the pack buys an Azure VM, so wg-quick on that VM is the path",
"ingress": "udp",
"volume_tib_month": 0.18,
"volume_stated": "$100 of Azure credit at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB, plus Azure's 100 GB a month free, which is the same 0.18 TiB a month as Azure for Students",
"bytes_transit": "yes",
"transit_note": "the bytes cross Microsoft's network under the Azure credit"
}Unknown values 2
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