Best offer on record: JetBrains Student Pack - free full IDE licenses for students. 7 verified findings, checked 2026-10-22.
Offers
JetBrains Student Pack - free full IDE licenses for students high confidence
Free, non-commercial licenses for the paid IDEs while you stay enrolled; must be re-verified (renewed) annually with a reminder email. Products named in the Aug 2025 blog: IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, CLion, Rider, PhpStorm, DataGrip, RubyMine, RustRover, DataSpell, GoLand (11 IDEs). Also includes the JetBrains Academy plugin (100+ courses), IDE Features Trainer, and Code With Me. Non-commercial use only.
Eligibility
Student at an accredited educational institution (university/college; program longer than one year - bootcamps/short courses NOT eligible). Verify via: official university (.edu-like) email, ISIC/ITIC student ID, GitHub Student Developer Pack account, or uploaded official enrollment document (student ID/enrollment letter, <=4MB, not older than 6 months; China can use chsi.com.cn report; review up to 2 weeks). Minors need a parent/guardian email for consent. No credit card required. GitHub Student Developer Pack is a first-class application route (GitHub is a 'trusted partner').
How to claim
1) Apply at jetbrains.com/estore/students (or the academy student-pack page) using a GitHub Student Developer Pack account, university email + ID, or official documents; 2) email verification link; 3) after approval, log in to a JetBrains Account, download any IDE in the list - license activates automatically; installation instructions arrive by email.
Expiry
Valid as long as you remain a student; renewal annually (JetBrains reminds by email; resubmit proof of enrollment). The Sep 12, 2025 prize-draw deadline has passed.
Gotchas
Non-commercial only - no commercial work. Free educational licenses exclude short-term/bootcamp programs (official FAQ, updated 30 Sep 2026). Annual re-verification required or access lapses. The 11 IDEs are individual products; the All Products Pack-style full bundle is what the pack effectively grants across them. AI tools are NOT included free - see separate finding.
JetBrains Teacher Pack - free IDEs for teachers/educators high confidence
Free access to 10 JetBrains IDEs - 'the full versions of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, plus GoLand, PhpStorm, and others' - plus course creation (JetBrains Academy) and 'classroom-wide AI control, deployed and managed from one place'. Licenses are valid one year with an automatic email reminder before expiry to renew/re-apply. No percentage discount tier is shown on the page; the pack is free, and institutional projects beyond classroom use go to commercial licensing.
Eligibility
Two tracks: (a) classroom track - representatives of accredited schools/colleges/universities, verified by 'a letter from school officials or a copy of your staff ID'; (b) individual track - teachers and IT staff at accredited institutions with programs longer than one year, verified by a university email address or valid ISIC card. No credit card required. Apply through the JetBrains shop e-form.
How to claim
Apply via the 'Apply' link on the Teacher Pack page (JetBrains shop e-form), pick classroom or individual track, submit verification document or ISIC/university email, license arrives in the JetBrains account after review.
Expiry
Licenses valid 1 year; automatic email reminder before expiration to renew or re-apply (renewable while still teaching).
Gotchas
Classroom use is the intended scope; internal/institutional commercial projects must use commercial licenses. 'Full versions' means paid-tier IDEs, not just Community features.
JetBrains for Startups - 50% Startup Discount Plan high confidence
50% off JetBrains developer, team and learning tools plus AI, for up to 10 IDE subscriptions, 10 paid team/learning tool subscriptions, and 10 JetBrains AI subscriptions (AI Pro/AI Ultimate, which include Junie) over a five-year window. Plugins: unlimited different plugins, up to 10 licenses each. TeamCity capped at 10 build agents; YouTrack at 250 users/subscription. Licenses can be spread across the 5 years; 50% off applies automatically at checkout; cannot be stacked with other discounts; no team/floating licenses; personal (non-commercial) licenses excluded.
Eligibility
Company privately owned; established within the last 5 years (provable with a document, <=4MB); has a website or other discoverable online presence. No funding cap, revenue cap, or headcount cap stated (teams of 50+ are redirected to business sales). One application per organization; subsidiaries of an already-approved org are ineligible; discount granted only once. Review takes up to 48 hours.
How to claim
Apply at jetbrains.com/startups (form: jetbrains.com/shop/eform/startup): choose products, submit company info + founding-date proof; if approved you get a quote email and 50% off automatically applies at checkout within the caps for 5 years.
Expiry
Discount lapses 5 years after the approval confirmation or when the purchase caps (10+10+10 subscriptions) are exhausted, whichever first. Company can receive the discount only once.
Gotchas
This is a discount program, not free licenses - the older 'up to 12 free startup licenses' model is gone (see sunset notes). No free tier for direct startup applicants; the free-license route now only exists via the partner track: incubators/accelerators/VCs with >=10 portfolio startups get six months of free access to up to 10 licenses, then the standard 50% for the remaining ~4 years; a partner-network startup must use the partner's free period first and cannot hold a direct discount at the same time. Credit card not needed to apply.
JetBrains AI Free access - Junie Lite + AI Free plan (AI tools) medium confidence
Free AI layer for individuals: 'Junie Lite' is a free model, 'always on, in every JetBrains account' - 'a free AI layer, no trial, no card', plus BYOK (bring your own API key, provider-rate pricing, zero markup, supports local models). The Aug 2025 student-pack post says students should 'Test-drive JetBrains AI tools during your trial, and then switch to the AI Free plan or upgrade anytime'. Paid tiers for reference: AI Pro $8.33/user/month (10 AI credits per 30 days + top-ups); AI Ultimate $25/user/month (35 AI credits per 30 days + top-ups, recommended for Junie).
Eligibility
Any JetBrains account gets Junie Lite free (no card, no trial). AI Free plan available to individual users, including students after their trial. Paid tiers need a subscription. No region limits stated.
How to claim
Sign in to any JetBrains account / open Junie in terminal or IDE -> free model is available immediately. For AI Assistant: click the AI icon in the IDE top-right, complete trial, then select the AI Free plan; upgrade to Pro/Ultimate via the JetBrains subscription purchase links.
Expiry
No expiry stated for the free tier; 'always on, in every JetBrains account'.
Gotchas
Free tier is model- and rate-limited ('AI usage billed separately' caveat on the page); heavy Junie agent use hits the free-model or credit limits, which is why Ultimate is 'recommended for Junie'. Naming is in flux: product page says 'Junie Lite', student blog says 'AI Free plan' - the free tier's exact credit numbers were not published on the pages fetched. CC NOT required for the free tier.
Free IDEs for anyone - non-commercial use & unified IDEA free tier high confidence
Several JetBrains products are free outside the student program: RustRover is listed on the products page with download only (no Buy CTA); Datalore is 'Get it for free'; YouTrack has a free tier plus paid; dotPeek is a free .NET decompiler; Gateway, Hub and Toolbox are free downloads. Since the July 2025 unified distribution (from 2025.3), IntelliJ IDEA ships as ONE installer: all Ultimate features need a subscription, but without one 'the IDE will remain fully functional, free to use for both commercial and non-commercial projects, and will include more features than the current Community Edition ever had'.
Eligibility
Nobody in particular - free for anyone: RustRover, Datalore, YouTrack (free tier), dotPeek, Gateway, Hub, Toolbox; IDEA's free feature set is usable even for commercial projects. Community Edition as a separate product no longer exists.
How to claim
Download directly from jetbrains.com/products (or the per-product pages); for IDEA, install the single unified IDE and use the free feature set without any license.
Expiry
No expiry; ongoing. (Per-product 'free for non-commercial use' tiers for WebStorm/GoLand-class IDEs are commonly cited but were not re-verified on today's pages - unconfirmed here.)
Gotchas
Unified IDEA still gates the full Ultimate feature set behind a subscription; when a paid IDEA subscription lapses, the IDE degrades to the free feature set instead of locking out; a perpetual fallback license (last major version from your uninterrupted-subscription year) still applies. Don't confuse free personal use of these IDEs with the student pack, which grants full paid IDEs to students.
30-day free trials for paid JetBrains products medium confidence
All paid products (IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate features, WebStorm, CLion, DataGrip, Rider, TeamCity, etc.) offer a 30-day free trial, and the student-pack post explicitly points students to 'test-drive JetBrains AI tools during your trial' before moving to the AI Free plan.
Eligibility
Anyone with a JetBrains account; no eligibility beyond creating an account.
How to claim
Download a paid product from its product page, start the IDE, choose the 30-day trial when prompted at license selection.
Expiry
30 days per product (longer combined window when products are downloaded together).
Gotchas
Trial is not free-forever; CC not required for the trial itself. Do not mistake trials for the free student/teacher licenses.
40% graduation discount for 2 years (unverified today) low confidence
The task's known-baseline says '40% graduation discount for 2 years' - graduated students can keep cheap licenses for their first two years after finishing studies. This could NOT be re-verified today: jetbrains.com/estore pages are behind a Cloudflare check to this fetcher, and /shop/eform/students, /estore/graduates, /shop/eform/graduates, /for-startups all returned 404/403. No official page read today contains the figure.
Eligibility
Per the old program: recent graduates who held a student license; claimed through the students e-store with proof of graduation/completion.
How to claim
Unconfirmed today - check jetbrains.com/estore/students or the JetBrains sales FAQ directly for the live terms.
Expiry
Believed to apply for up to 2 years after graduation; unconfirmed.
Gotchas
May have been folded into the Student Pack / estore flow after the Aug 2025 relaunch; do not quote the 40%/2-years figures without re-checking the official page.
2025-2026 changes: (1) Aug 12, 2025 - JetBrains rebranded/relaunched the student program as the "JetBrains Student Pack" (blog.jetbrains.com post); license duration wording is now "completely free and remain valid as long as you're a student, but must be renewed annually" (replaces the old "1-year, renewable" framing). Promo: verify by Sep 12, 2025 to enter a prize draw (MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, reMarkable Paper Pro) - now expired. (2) Bootcamp student-coupon program is being retired: official sales FAQ (updated 30 Sep 2026) states "no new coupons are being issued after October 1, 2026"; short-term/bootcamp students were never eligible for free educational licenses (only long-term programs >1 year qualify). (3) Jul 18, 2025 - IntelliJ IDEA moved to a unified distribution starting with 2025.3: the separate Community Edition installer is gone; the single IDE keeps more free features than old Community for everyone, and an expired subscription degrades gracefully to the free feature set instead of locking out. Perpetual fallback license (last major version after a year of uninterrupted subscription) still applies. (4) The startup offer is now a 50% discount plan (caps over 5 years), not the older "up to 12 free licenses for 1 year" program that ran for years - free startup licenses survive only in the incubator/accelerator/VC partner track (6 months, up to 10 licenses). The 40% / 2-year graduation discount listed in the task's "known so far" could not be re-verified today: jetbrains.com student/estore pages are Cloudflare-gated to this fetcher and /shop/eform/students, /estore/graduates, /for-startups, /startup all 404'd; treat it as likely still real but unconfirmed (no official page read today).