azure for students ($100 credit)

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/studentsstorage/azure-for-students-3JSON compare report an error provider JSON

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: storage/azure-for-students says card, storage/azure-for-students-3 says email
verdict: storage/azure-for-students says qualifies-with-caveat, storage/azure-for-students-3 says fails-quota

Free allowance: '$100 credit to use on Azure services within 12 months', renewable annually 'as long as you're a student'. $100 is a few TB-months at best; the 12-month balance expiry is the binding limit.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: no price stated
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: reported1 source; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	'$100 credit to use on Azure services within 12 months', renewable annually 'as long as you're a student'. $100 is a few TB-months at best; the 12-month balance expiry is the binding limit. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	not recorded
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded

Evidence 1

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students	the text of Free tier, above

More fields 1

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "'$100 credit to use on Azure services within 12 months', renewable annually 'as long as you're a student'. $100 is a few TB-months at best; the 12-month balance expiry is the binding limit.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown values 8

$.binding_note boilerplate
$.chaining the record was rejected before this field was looked at
$.egress.terms the record was rejected before this field was looked at
$.interface the access interface was not established
$.per_object_cap.notes the record was rejected before this field was looked at
$.per_object_cap.stated the record was rejected before this field was looked at
$.retention.stated the record was rejected before this field was looked at
$.tooling the record was rejected before this field was looked at