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GitHub Codespaces: up to 180 core hours per month for verified students

Verified GitHub Education students get free GitHub Codespaces usage on their personal accounts, up to 180 core hours per month, matching the allowance included with GitHub Pro.

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  • Student verification

About this offer

As part of GitHub Education's student benefits, verified students can use GitHub Codespaces cloud development environments for free on their personal accounts, up to 180 core hours per month. GitHub states the monthly storage and core-hour allowance is equivalent to what GitHub Pro accounts include.

Codespaces used inside GitHub Classroom assignment repositories are billed to the organization that owns the classroom and do not count against the student's personal allowance.

Who's eligible

  • Verified student on GitHub Education
  • Applies to personal accounts

How to redeem

  1. 1Apply to GitHub Education as a student and get verified
  2. 2Use GitHub Codespaces from your personal account

Terms and restrictions

  • Up to 180 core hours per month
  • Classroom assignment usage is charged to the classroom's organization, not the student's allowance

Terms are summarised from the provider's page and may change. The provider's terms always take precedence.

About GitHub Codespaces

GitHub Codespaces provides configurable cloud-hosted development environments that open directly from a repository.

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