Azure for Students (and Azure for Students Starter)
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/azure-for-studentssays card, storage/azure-for-students-2 says email - identity_kind:
storage/azure-for-studentssays card, storage/azure-for-students-3 says email - identity_kind:
storage/azure-for-studentssays card, storage/azure-for-students-4 says email - verdict:
storage/azure-for-studentssays qualifies-with-caveat, storage/azure-for-students-2 says fails-quota - verdict:
storage/azure-for-studentssays qualifies-with-caveat, storage/azure-for-students-3 says fails-quota - verdict:
storage/azure-for-studentssays qualifies-with-caveat, storage/azure-for-students-4 says fails-quota
- Free allowance
- $100 credit per 12 months plus free monthly amounts of 20+ services; no credit card required.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | $100 credit per 12 months plus free monthly amounts of 20+ services; no credit card required. Explicitly renewable: 'Renew your subscription annually and continue to get free access to Azure as long as you're a student.' Starter tier (13-17) gives services without the $100. unit mixed; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | card not published |
| Egress | The 100 GB/month free internet egress (all Azure customers) applies; beyond that metered. free allowance: 100 GB per month |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | s3, rest, rclone s3 |
| Tooling | Azure Blob REST / rclone azureblob / azcopy, same as paid Azure. |
| Composes with | $100/year at ~$0.0184/GB-month hot LRS ≈ 5.4 TB-months per year ≈ 450 GB held for the full year, and it renews yearly while student status holds. It is the only yearly-renewable big-cloud credit found. |
| Reliability | Subscription is disabled at year end until renewed; data can be lost if the subscription lapses and is later reactivated. |
Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students | '$100 credit to use on Azure services within 12 months'; 'Renew your subscription annually and continue to get free access to Azure as long as you're a student' |
| 2026-10-21 | azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students | Starter tier: 'Free monthly amounts of 20+ popular services for 12 months (new Azure customers only)' |
Unknown values 6
$.binding_noteboilerplate$.identity_cost.detailboilerplate$.per_object_cap.notesthe field may be stated in a source that was not read$.per_object_cap.statedthe field may be stated in a source that was not read$.retention.notesthe field may be stated in a source that was not read$.retention.statedthe field may be stated in a source that was not read