How to Get Free Student Discounts Nobody Tells You About in India in 2026

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Being a student in India comes with more benefits than most people realise. Companies, platforms, and services offer significant discounts specifically for students — but they never advertise these loudly because they would rather you pay full price. Here is every student discount worth knowing about in India right now.

Why Companies Offer Student Discounts

Companies offer student discounts for one simple reason — they want to build habits early. If you start using their product as a student and love it you will pay full price after graduation. For you this means significant savings right now on tools and services you actually need.

1. GitHub Student Developer Pack — Worth Over ₹1,00,000

This is the single most valuable free offer available to any student in the world and almost nobody in India talks about it. GitHub's Student Developer Pack gives you free access to over 100 premium developer tools that normally cost money.

What you get includes free domain name for one year, free cloud hosting credits worth thousands of rupees, free access to premium coding courses, free design tools, free database hosting, and dozens of other tools that professional developers pay for every month.

How to get it: Go to education.github.com, click Get Student Benefits, verify your student status with your college email or student ID, and get instant access. Completely free.

This alone is worth more than most paid coding courses in India.

2. Microsoft Azure for Students — ₹12,000 Worth of Cloud Credits

Microsoft gives students free access to Azure cloud services worth $150 — approximately ₹12,000 — with no credit card required. You also get free access to developer tools including Visual Studio Code extensions and Microsoft learning resources.

How to get it: Go to azure.microsoft.com/free/students and sign up with your college email address.

3. JetBrains Student License — Free Professional Coding Tools

JetBrains makes the most popular professional coding tools in the world — IntelliJ IDEA for Java, PyCharm for Python, WebStorm for JavaScript, and many more. Each of these costs thousands of rupees per year for professionals. Students get all of them completely free.

How to get it: Go to jetbrains.com/student and apply with your college email or student ID.

4. Notion for Students — Free Premium Plan

Notion's personal plan is already free but the premium Plus plan costs money. Students get the Plus plan completely free which includes unlimited file uploads, unlimited guests, and advanced features that make Notion even more powerful for managing your student life.

How to get it: Go to notion.so/students and verify your student status.

5. Canva for Education — Free Premium Features

Canva's premium plan costs around ₹4,000 per year but students and educational users get access to premium templates, photos, and features completely free through Canva for Education.

How to get it: Go to canva.com/education and apply with your institutional email.

6. Spotify Student Discount — 50 Percent Off

Spotify Premium normally costs ₹119 per month in India. Students get it for approximately ₹59 per month — half price. If you use Spotify regularly this saves you ₹720 per year.

How to get it: Go to spotify.com/in/student and verify your enrollment status.

7. Internshala Free Courses

Internshala regularly offers free courses for students in areas like digital marketing, Python programming, web development, and more. These courses normally cost ₹2,000 to ₹5,000 each but are made free during promotional periods.

How to get it: Go to internshala.com/trainings and filter by free courses. Sign up immediately when free courses are announced as they have limited seats.

8. AWS Educate — Free Cloud Learning

Amazon Web Services offers free cloud computing resources and learning materials through AWS Educate for students. You get free credits to practice building real cloud projects — a skill that is in extremely high demand in the Indian job market right now.

How to get it: Go to aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate and sign up with your student email.

9. Google Cloud for Students

Google Cloud also offers free credits and learning resources for students through Google Cloud Skills Boost. Cloud computing skills are one of the most valuable things you can learn as a student right now and this lets you practice for free.

How to get it: Go to cloudskillsboost.google and create a free account.

10. LinkedIn Premium — Free for Students

LinkedIn occasionally offers free trials of LinkedIn Premium for students which normally costs around ₹1,700 per month. Premium gives you InMail credits to message professionals directly, access to LinkedIn Learning courses, and insights into who viewed your profile.

How to get it: Go to linkedin.com/learning and check if a student offer is currently available. These promotions change regularly so check monthly.

How to Verify Student Status on Most Platforms

Most platforms accept one of these as proof of student status. A college email address ending in .edu or .ac.in works on almost every platform. If you don't have a college email your student ID card photo or a bonafide certificate from your college office works on most Indian platforms.

The Most Important Thing

Most Indian students never claim these discounts simply because they don't know they exist. You now know. Go claim every single one of these this week — especially the GitHub Student Developer Pack which alone is worth more than most people earn in a month.

These discounts exist specifically for students like you. Use them.

— Saieshwar P, GrindZone

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