Azure for Students (free)
- Free allowance
- Access to full catalog of services up to free amounts and $100 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
- volume-quota$100 of egress at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB in total
- 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 | Access to full catalog of services up to free amounts and $100 credit unit mixed; metered on downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 100 of credit |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota two constraints fail before any byte moves: the school email gate, which a user does not have, and then $100 of credit, which at 1 TiB a month lasts 31 days. The identity gate fails first of all. |
| Identity | institution Available only to full-time university students. Use your school email to sign up and renew yearly while you're a student. |
| Egress | $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; ingress: udp free allowance: $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 |
| Interface | cli, rest Azure CLI and the Azure Resource Manager REST API |
| Tooling | wg-quick on the VM; Azure CLI |
| Reliability | the subscription must be renewed annually while enrolled or the free amounts stop |
| 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. |
| Evidence note | documented nothing to raise: the eligibility sentence is unambiguous and excludes a user on its face |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/ | 'Available only to full-time university students', 'No credit card required', 'Access to full catalog of services up to free amounts and $100 credit' |
| 2026-10-23 | azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/ | 'First 100 GB/Month Free' then '$0.087 per GB', the rate the $100 is spent against |
More fields 7
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"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"
}Unknown values 2
$.per_object_cap.statedthe field does not apply to this kind of offer$.retention.statedthe field does not apply to this kind of offer