Free AI for Education
500,000 free AI tokens per month plus Pro-tier API access for students and teachers with .edu emails.
Free AI Tokens for Students & Teachers
Verify your .edu email address and get 500,000 tokens per month plus API keys at the Pro request tier, for every tool that runs on our self-hosted models. No credit card required.
Students
Research papers, homework help, code debugging, language learning, study summaries - AI tools for every subject.
Teachers
Lesson plans, grading assistance, content creation, quiz generation, translation for ESL students.
Researchers
Literature review, data analysis, paper writing, code for experiments, and access to GPU-powered models.
Apply for Education Access
Submit your.edu email address below. We will send a verification link to confirm your academic affiliation and activate your account instantly.
What You Get
- 500,000 tokens per month, renewed on re-verification
- Every AI tool that runs on our self-hosted models
- API keys at the Pro request tier (100,000 requests per month) for research projects
- 40+ self-hosted open models included; premium external models (GPT-5, Claude, Gemini) available with purchased tokens
- No credit card required - completely free
- Re-verify monthly to continue access
FAQ
Students, teachers, professors, researchers, and administrators at accredited educational institutions with a valid .edu email address qualify. This includes universities, colleges, community colleges, and K-12 schools that issue .edu emails.
You get 500,000 tokens per month for every tool that runs on our self-hosted open models, and API keys at the Pro request tier (100,000 requests per month) for research projects, all with no credit card required. Premium external models are not part of the education grant. They are billed to us per call, so they require purchased tokens.
Enter your .edu email address and we will send a verification link. Click the link to instantly activate your education access. No manual review needed for standard .edu addresses.
Education access lasts 30 days. Before it expires, we will email you a re-verification link. Click it to confirm you still have access to your .edu email and receive another 500,000 tokens. If you do not re-verify within 14 days, your account reverts to the standard free tier.
No. A valid .edu email address is required to verify your academic affiliation. If your institution does not use .edu emails, contact us with proof of enrollment and we will review your application manually.
Each student can apply individually with their own .edu email. For classroom-wide deployments with centralized management, contact us about our institutional plans which include team management and usage analytics.
Popular tools for students include AI Chat for research and homework help, the Code Assistant for debugging assignments, Translation for language courses, Text-to-Speech for accessibility, the Summarizer for reading dense material, and the Writing Assistant for essay drafting and editing.
Yes. While your verification is current, education access includes API keys at the Pro request tier (100,000 requests per month). Researchers can call our self-hosted models from experiments, data analysis pipelines, and custom applications. All self-hosted models use open-source licenses suitable for academic use. Premium external models require purchased tokens.
The .edu email requirement primarily applies to US institutions. International students and faculty at accredited universities should contact us with proof of enrollment. We handle international applications on a case-by-case basis.
If you use all 500,000 tokens before your 30-day period is up, you can still use the daily free pool (30,000 tokens/day for registered users). You can also purchase additional tokens at any time. Your next monthly re-verification will grant another 500,000 tokens.
Yes. The Citation Generator at /study/citation/ supports APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, AMA, Vancouver, ASA, and ACS - 9 citation styles across 12 source types. The Summarizer condenses dense academic PDFs, and the Writing Assistant helps with essay drafts. Always cite Free.ai-assisted work per your institution's AI-use policy.
Yes. Your inputs and outputs are not used to train any model, are not shared with third parties, and you can delete your generation history from /account/?tab=history at any time. Self-hosted Free.ai models keep all data on our servers; when you choose external models, your prompt is forwarded to that provider per their privacy policy. Education accounts get the same privacy guarantees as paid users.