Maximizing Free AI as ASU Student

Being a student at ASU comes with a surprising number of free premium AI subscriptions. This guide covers how to get the most out of your student status.

Free Subscriptions

ChatGPT Edu via ai.asu.edu/chatgpt-edu
Codex student credits via chatgpt.com/codex/students
- Eligible college students can get $100 in free Codex usage.
Claude Pro via claudebuilder.club
- Best way to use Claude Opus
- Claude models are amazing for writing and have the most human tone
- Also not as syncophantic as OpenAI models
Gemini Pro instructions
- Best way to use Gemini Pro
- Great for managing Google Calendar, like pasting in screenshots of events and having it create calendar events
- You can also use the Antigravity IDE with this subscription
GitHub Copilot via GitHub Student Developer Pack
- Comes with Copilot tab-complete and agent mode in VS Code
- You can also spawn background web coding agents at github.com/copilot
JetBrains via GitHub Student Developer Pack
- Comes with AI Assistant too
- IDEs are some of the most powerful you can get---the refactoring facilities are best-in-class
- Quite resource-intensive IDEs, though
And more via GitHub Student Developer Pack
- There’s also a bunch of other cool things you can get with the pack. Scroll through and shop around!
Cursor via cursor.com/students
- Free Pro for a year with a .edu email
Kiro via kiro.dev/students
- AWS’s AI-powered code editor (IDE and CLI)
- Free plan available for ASU students
Zed via zed.dev/education
- Free Pro for one year for verified university students
- Includes $10/month in token credits for AI assistance, unlimited edit predictions, and real-time multiplayer collaboration
- Very fast editor, most recommended by the SoDA Technology Team 😉
v0 via v0.app/students
- Free v0 Premium for one year when you verify your student status
- AI-powered UI generation tool for quickly building and prototyping interfaces
LM Arena via arena.ai/code/direct
- Chat directly with leading coding AI models and compare outputs side-by-side