New Year 2027 — Free Tools to Start Building

New year, new projects. Start 2027 with the best free developer tools, cloud credits, and pro plans. Whether you're launching a startup, starting a new course, or contributing to open source, these deals will help you ship faster.

112 deals available

$25/year

.tech Domains

Free .tech domain for 1 year via GitHub Education

🛠 DevStudents

$36/year

1Password

1 year free for students via GitHub Education

☁️ SaaSStudents

$120/year

Adafruit

Free Adafruit IO+ for 1 year — IoT platform

🛠 DevStudents

$10,000 credits

Algolia

$10K in credits for startups

☁️ SaaSStartups

$120,000 credits

Alibaba Cloud

Startup credits up to $120K

🌐 CloudStartups

$36K/year

Amplitude

Free Scholarship plan for startups

☁️ SaaSStartups

$1,000+ credits

Anthropic API Credits

API credits for AI startups

🤖 AIStartups

$80 value

Arduino

6 months Arduino Create Maker plan + hardware discounts

🛠 DevStudents

$1,200/year

Asana

Free Business plan for accelerator startups

☁️ SaaSStartups

$120/year

Astah

1 year professional UML diagramming license

🛠 DevStudents

$150 value

Astra Security

6 months website security suite

🛠 DevStudents

$100,000

AWS Activate

Up to $100K in AWS credits for startups

🌐 CloudStartups

$200/year

Baremetrics

Free SaaS analytics via GitHub Education

☁️ SaaSStudents

$180/year

Basecamp

Free for students and teachers

☁️ SaaSStudents

$180/year

Bitbucket

Free academic license with unlimited private repos

🛠 DevStudents

$60 license

Bootstrap Studio

Free student license for responsive web design

🛠 DevStudents

$588/year

BrowserStack

Free Automate plan for 1 year via GitHub Education

🛠 DevStudents

6,000 min/month

CircleCI

Free CI/CD plan for OSS and startups

🛠 DevOpen SourceStartups

$240/year

Cloudflare

Free Pro plan and startup program

🌐 CloudStartupsOpen Source

$180/year

Codacy

Free code quality analysis for open source

🛠 DevOpen Source

$120/year

Codecov

Free code coverage for public & private repos

🛠 DevStudentsOpen Source

$150/year

CodeScene

Free code analysis tool via GitHub Education

🛠 DevStudents

$500/year

Comet ML

Free ML experiment tracking for students & researchers

🤖 AIStudentsOpen Source

$100/year

ConfigCat

Free feature flag management for students

🛠 DevStudents

$120/year

Coveralls

Free unlimited code coverage for private repos

🛠 DevStudents

$480/year

Crowdin

Free Bronze plan for 12 months — localization platform

🛠 DevStudents

$42 (6 months)

Dashlane

6 months Dashlane Premium free for students

☁️ SaaSStudents

$1,900+/year

Datadog

Pro account + 10 servers for students

🛠 DevStudents

$229/year

DataGrip

Free database IDE for students

🛠 DevStudents

Startup pricing

DeepL Pro

Discounted translation API for startups

🤖 AIStartups

$180/year

DeepScan

6 months premium code analysis

🛠 DevStudents

$200+ credits

DigitalOcean

Free cloud credits via GitHub Education

🌐 CloudStudentsStartups

$60/year

Docker

Free Docker Pro for students & OSS

🛠 DevStudentsOpen Source

50% off ($44/year savings)

Evernote

50% off Evernote Personal for students

☁️ SaaSStudents

$120/year

EverSQL

6 months SQL optimization for students

🛠 DevStudents

$100/year

GitHub Copilot

Free AI pair programming for students

🤖 AIStudentsOpen Source

$200+/year

GitHub Student Developer Pack

Free access to 100+ developer tools

🛠 DevStudentsOpen Source

$108/year

GitKraken

Free Pro suite for students

🛠 DevStudents

$1,188/year

GitLab for Education

Free Ultimate plan for students

🛠 DevStudents

$150 (6 months)

Gitpod

Free cloud IDE plan for students

🛠 DevStudents

$96/year

Gliffy

Free diagram and flowchart tool for students

☁️ SaaSStudents

$2,000+ credits

Google Cloud AI

AI/ML credits via Google Cloud programs

🤖 AIStartupsStudents

$200,000

Google Cloud for Startups

Up to $200K in Google Cloud credits

🌐 CloudStartups

40% off

Grammarly

Discounted Premium for students

🤖 AIStudents

$12,000+/year

Gurobi

Free academic license for optimization solver

🛠 DevStudents

$156 credits

Heroku

Platform credits via GitHub Education

🌐 CloudStudents

$348/year

Honeybadger

Free Small plan for 1 year — error monitoring

🛠 DevStudents

Up to 90% off

HubSpot for Startups

Up to 90% off for startups

☁️ SaaSStartups

95% off first year

Intercom

95% off for early-stage startups

☁️ SaaSStartups

Startup pricing

Jasper AI

AI content platform for startups

🤖 AIStartups

$649/year

JetBrains

All pro IDEs free for students & educators

🛠 DevStudentsOpen Source

$10,000/year

Kaltura

$10K/year in video platform credits

☁️ SaaSStudentsStartups

$300/year

Kodika.io

6 months unlimited Pro plan for iOS development

🛠 DevStudents

$180/year

LambdaTest

Free 1-year Live plan for cross-browser testing

🛠 DevStudents

$18 (6 months)

LastPass

Free Premium for students

☁️ SaaSStudents

$200/year

Linear

Free Standard plan for startups

☁️ SaaSStartups

$200/year

LingoHub

Professional plan with 10K text segments

🛠 DevStudents

$100 credit

Linode (Akamai)

$100 free credit for new users

🌐 CloudStartups

$108/year

Lucidchart

Free educational upgrade for diagramming

☁️ SaaSStudents

$420/year

Mailgun

12 months free with 20,000 emails/month via GitHub Education

🛠 DevStudents

$500+ credits

Mapbox

5 GB storage for student map projects

🛠 DevStudents

$70/year

Microsoft 365 Education

Free Office 365 for students

☁️ SaaSStudents

$100 credits

Microsoft Azure for Students

$100 Azure credits without credit card

🌐 CloudStudents

$1,080/year

Monday.com

Up to $6,000 in credits for VC-backed startups

☁️ SaaSStartupsStudents

$200+ credits

MongoDB Atlas

Free credits + MongoDB University for students

🛠 DevStudentsOpen Source

$30/year

Name.com

Free domain + Advanced Security SSL for 1 year

🛠 DevStudents

$25/year

Namecheap

Free .me domain + SSL certificate for 1 year

🛠 DevStudents

$96/year

Notion

Free Plus plan for students & educators

☁️ SaaSStudents

$2,500+ credits

OpenAI Startup Program

API credits and support for AI startups

🤖 AIStartups

$200/year

Perplexity Pro

1 year free Perplexity Pro for students

🤖 AIStudents

$180/year

POEditor

1 year premium localization platform

🛠 DevStudents

$108/year

Polypane

Free browser dev tool for 1 year via GitHub Education

🛠 DevStudents

$60 value

PomoDone

2 years free Lite plan for productivity

☁️ SaaSStudents

$228/year

PopSQL

Free Premium SQL editor for students

🛠 DevStudents

$144/year

Postman

Free Basic plan for students

🛠 DevStudents

50% off ($60/year savings)

Prezi

Edu Plus plan at student pricing

☁️ SaaSStudents

$500+/year

Qt

Free educational license for cross-platform development

🛠 DevStudents

$60/year

Railway

Free hosting for open source projects

🌐 CloudOpen SourceStudents

$288/year

Raygun

Error and performance monitoring for students

🛠 DevStudents

$24/year

RoboForm

Free RoboForm Everywhere for students

☁️ SaaSStudents

Startup credits

Scaleway

European cloud with startup program

🌐 CloudStartups

$50K credits

Segment

Free Startup plan for early companies

☁️ SaaSStartups

$120/year

Semaphore

Free CI/CD account with 25% institutional discount

🛠 DevStudents

$312/year

Sentry

Free error tracking for OSS & startups

🛠 DevOpen SourceStartups

$108/year

Simple Analytics

Free privacy-first analytics for 1 year

☁️ SaaSStudents

$500/year

Slack

Pro plan credits through partner programs

☁️ SaaSStartups

50% off ($96/year savings)

Squarespace

50% off first year for students

☁️ SaaSStudents

$5,000+ credits

Stripe Atlas

Startup incorporation with $5K in credits

☁️ SaaSStartups

$2,500 credits

Supabase

Credits and free tier for builders

🛠 DevStartupsOpen Source

$150 savings

Surfshark VPN

81% off VPN subscription for students

☁️ SaaSStudents

$840/year

Tableau

Free 1-year Tableau Desktop license for students

🛠 DevStudents

50% off

TablePlus

50% off for students with valid .edu email

🛠 DevStudents

$144/year

Tabnine

Free AI code completion for students

🤖 AIStudents

$60/year savings

Taskade

50% permanent discount on Pro plans

☁️ SaaSStudents

$120/year

Termius

Free Premium SSH client for students

🛠 DevStudents

$69/year

Tower Git

Free Git client license for students

🛠 DevStudents

$200/year

Transloadit

10 GB Startup plan for file processing

🛠 DevStudentsStartups

$700/year

Travis CI

Unlimited free CI/CD for open source projects

🛠 DevOpen Source

Startup credits

Twilio

Startup credits for communications APIs

☁️ SaaSStartups

$300/year

Typeform

Free Professional plan for 1 year via GitHub Education

☁️ SaaSStudents

$2,040/year

Unity Student

Free Unity Pro license for students

🛠 DevStudents

Free

Unreal Engine

Free game engine for students

🛠 DevStudentsOpen Source

$600/year

Vaadin

Free Pro subscription for Java web development

🛠 DevStudents

$240/year

Vercel

Free Pro plan for open source & startups

🌐 CloudStartupsOpen Source

$120/year

Vertabelo

Free database design tool for students

🛠 DevStudents

$5,999/year

Visual Studio Enterprise

Free Enterprise IDE for students via Azure Dev Tools

🛠 DevStudents

$250 credit

Vultr

$250 free credit for new accounts

🌐 CloudStartups

Free for academics

Weights & Biases

Free ML experiment tracking for academics

🤖 AIStudentsOpen Source

$30 license

Working Copy

Free Pro upgrade for iOS Git client

🛠 DevStudents

$150/year

Xojo

Free cross-platform IDE via GitHub Education

🛠 DevStudents

$99/year

YNAB (You Need A Budget)

Free budgeting app for college students

☁️ SaaSStudents

6 months free

Zendesk for Startups

6 months free for startups

☁️ SaaSStartups

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free tools to start a new project in 2027?

Start with Vercel or Railway for hosting, Supabase for your database, GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted coding, and Figma for design. All have free tiers or student plans.

How can startups get free tools in 2027?

Apply to programs like AWS Activate ($100K credits), Stripe Atlas ($5K+ partner credits), and individual startup programs from tools like Linear, Notion, and Slack.

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