Student Perks: Free Software, Certs, and Learning Bundles

There are many free and discounted certifications, software bundles, tools, services, and learning resources available for students and some for the general public too (marked with asterisk) -

Oracle University is offering 5 free certification exam attempts* as part of its Race to Certification Challenge 2025 that will run till October 2025 and 3 always-free Foundation course certifications*.

GitHub Student Developer Pack: Github offers Copilot Pro for free, 180 monthly Codespaces hours for cloud coding, unlimited private repositories with GitHub Pro or Team, and dozens of premium tools in the Student Developer Pack. Below is the list with a link to the dedicated landing page (where available) for that tool's GitHub student offer -

Developer Tools & IDEs
 

Cloud, Hosting & Infrastructure Domains & SSL Analytics, Monitoring & Security Databases, APIs & Backend Productivity, Design, Learning Open Source, Communities DevOps, CI/CD, Testing Other Special Offers
GitHub Education also offers educators free access to tools and resources for working more effectively inside and outside of the classroom.

Perplexity Pro* - Airtel is providing its 360 million customers in India with a complimentary one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro via its Airtel Thanks App

Google AI Pro plan - University students in India aged 18 or older can enjoy a free one-year subscription to Gemini in Google AI Pro. Simply sign up by September 15, 2025, and if you're eligible, you'll gain free access for 12 months.

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