Top 68 Best Free Dev Tools

Cursor is an AI-native code editor built on VS Code. Students get Cursor Pro free for 1 year — includes unlimited AI completions, GPT-4/Claude chat, and multi-file editing. The fastest way to code with AI.

The GitHub Student Developer Pack gives students free access to the best developer tools in one place. Includes GitHub Pro, free domains, cloud credits, and more.

JetBrains gives students and educators free access to all professional IDEs — IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Pro, WebStorm, CLion, DataGrip, and more. Renew annually while enrolled.

Supabase offers generous free tier plus startup and open source programs with additional database credits and priority support.

Unity offers free access to Unity Student plan with Pro features for eligible students. Build games and 3D experiences.

Microsoft offers Visual Studio Enterprise free to students through Azure Dev Tools for Teaching (formerly Imagine). Includes the full IDE, advanced debugging, code analysis, architecture tools, and Azure credits.

.tech Domains offers students a free .tech domain for 1 year through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Perfect for portfolio sites and tech projects.

Adafruit gives students 1 year of free IO+ access through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Build IoT projects with dashboards, data logging, and MQTT support.

Arduino gives students 6 months of Arduino Create Maker plan and hardware discounts through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Astah offers students a 1-year Professional license for creating UML diagrams, flowcharts, and ER diagrams for software design.

Astra Security gives students 6 months of free website security suite including firewall, malware scanner, and security audit through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Bitbucket offers free academic licenses with unlimited private repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and up to 5 users for students and educators. Part of the Atlassian education program.

Bootstrap Studio provides a free student license for its powerful drag-and-drop website builder. Design responsive sites using Bootstrap components with a visual editor.

BrowserStack gives students a free Automate Mobile plan for 1 year through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Test on real devices and browsers with parallel testing.

AI-powered, cloud-based platform designed for scientific computing, simulations, and data analysis.

CircleCI provides generous free tier with 6,000 build minutes/month. Additional credits for open source projects.

Codacy provides free automated code review and quality analysis for open source projects. Get code coverage, duplication detection, and security analysis across 40+ languages — free for public repos.

Codecov gives students and open-source projects free code coverage reports for all repositories, helping improve code quality and testing.

CodeScene provides students with free access to behavioral code analysis through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Identify hotspots, technical debt, and team coordination issues.

ConfigCat provides students with free access to their feature flag management service through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Manage feature toggles across any platform.

Coveralls gives students unlimited private repo access through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Track test coverage, identify untested code, and improve code quality.

Crowdin gives students 12 months of free Bronze plan through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Translate and localize your apps with collaborative tools and integrations.

Datadog provides students with a free Pro account including monitoring for up to 10 servers for 2 years through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Full APM, logs, and infrastructure monitoring.

DataGrip by JetBrains is free for students. Professional database IDE supporting multiple databases with intelligent query editing.

Deepnote is a new kind of data notebook built for collaboration - Jupyter compatible, works magically in the cloud, and

DeepScan offers students 6 months of premium static analysis for JavaScript and TypeScript through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform built for developers.

Docker provides free Pro subscriptions for verified students through GitHub Education and for open source project maintainers.

A different way to manage secrets. From local development to production, we work on every stack, scaling with you as you

EverSQL offers students 6 months of automatic SQL query optimization through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

GitKraken offers its Pro suite free for students via the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Includes GitKraken Client, GitLens Pro, and more.

GitLab offers its Ultimate plan free for qualified educational institutions and students. Includes all DevOps features.

Gitpod gives students 6 months of free Personal plan through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Get cloud-based dev environments that launch in seconds from any Git context.

Gurobi provides students with a free academic license for their mathematical optimization solver. Solve linear, quadratic, and mixed-integer programming problems.

Honeybadger provides students with 1 year of free error monitoring through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Track exceptions, uptime, and check-ins for your applications.

These toolkits deliver the freedom to develop with a unified toolset and to deploy solutions across multiple architectur

Kodika.io offers students 6 months of unlimited Pro plan for building iOS apps with drag-and-drop through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

LambdaTest gives students a free 1-year Live plan through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Test websites on 3000+ real browsers and operating systems online.

LingoHub gives students the Professional Plan with 10,000 text segments for app and website localization through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Mailgun gives students 12 months of free email API service with 20,000 emails per month through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Send transactional and marketing emails via API.

Mapbox provides students with 5GB of tile storage and custom map styles through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Build location-based apps with interactive maps and geocoding.

MongoDB Atlas offers students free credits and learning resources through the MongoDB for Academia program. Beyond the free M0 cluster, get access to Atlas credits, MongoDB University courses, and certification exams.

Name.com gives students a free domain registration and Advanced Security SSL certificate for 1 year through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Namecheap gives students a free .me domain registration for 1 year plus a free SSL certificate through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Perfect for personal portfolio sites.

New Relic is an observability platform that helps fully understand how to improve your software.

POEditor provides students with 1 year of premium access to their localization platform with unlimited strings for translating apps and websites.

Polypane gives students 1 year free access to their responsive design browser through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Test multiple viewports, accessibility, and SEO simultaneously.

PopSQL offers its Premium plan free for students. Collaborative SQL editor with shared queries, charts, and database connections.

Postman offers free access to its Basic plan features for students through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Qt offers students a free educational license for their cross-platform development framework. Build desktop, mobile, and embedded applications with C++ and QML.

Raygun provides students with free crash reporting and real user performance monitoring for web and mobile apps through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Red Hat Developer for students

Replit gives students Pro access through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Code in 50+ languages in your browser with AI assistance, multiplayer collaboration, and one-click deployment.

Requestly is an open-source tool for developers to intercept, modify, and mock HTTP requests and responses to build, tes

Semaphore gives students a free CI/CD account with 25% institutional discount for continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

Sentry offers free error tracking and performance monitoring for open source projects, plus discounted plans for startups.

Tableau provides students with a free 1-year license for Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep Builder. Analyze and visualize data with industry-standard BI tools.

TablePlus offers student discounts on its native database management tool. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and more.

Termius Premium is free for students through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Sync SSH sessions across devices with encrypted vault.

Get unlimited email addresses and mailboxes for automating email tests with our powerful APIs.

Tower offers free licenses for students. A powerful Git client for Mac and Windows with visual branch management and conflict resolution.

Transloadit gives students and startups a 10 GB Startup Plan for file uploading, encoding, and processing through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Travis CI offers unlimited free CI/CD minutes for open source projects on GitHub. Automated testing and deployment with parallel builds, multi-language support, and easy GitHub integration.

Unreal Engine is free to use for students and learners. No royalties until you ship a commercial product earning over $1M.

Vaadin gives students a free Pro subscription worth $600/year for building modern Java web applications through the student program.

Vertabelo gives students free access to their visual database design tool for creating ER diagrams and managing database schemas.

Working Copy offers students a free Pro upgrade for their powerful iOS Git client. Clone repos, make commits, push changes, and manage branches directly from your iPad or iPhone.

Xojo offers students a free Desktop license through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Build native cross-platform apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux with one codebase.