Deals
A short, hand-picked list of ways to spend less on AI coding: annual plans that beat monthly, free credits to test a cloud GPU or a deploy, free tiers worth keeping, and student offers. We check these now and then, but deals change, so confirm the current terms at the link.
Annual plans and price drops
Lower your yearly cost on tools you already use, plus hardware to watch.
Save about 20% with annual billing
Cursor Pro is cheaper paid yearly than month to month. If you already code in it daily, the annual plan is the obvious switch.
Get this dealTwo months free on the yearly plan
Copilot Pro billed annually works out to roughly two free months versus paying monthly. Same features, lower yearly cost.
Get this dealAnnual Claude Pro saves on monthly
Paying for Claude Pro a year at a time lands below the monthly rate. Worth it once Claude is part of your daily loop.
Get this dealChatGPT Plus and team annual pricing
Team seats and some plans drop in price when billed yearly. Check the per-seat annual number before you add the team.
Get this dealWindsurf yearly is cheaper than monthly
The annual plan trims the per-month cost of the editor. Reasonable if you have settled on Windsurf as your main tool.
Get this dealWatch the price on a 4070 Ti Super
A solid GPU pick for local models and heavier inference. Prices swing, so check today's number before you buy.
Get this dealDeals on 64GB DDR5 kits
More RAM helps when you run agents, containers and an editor at once. Watch for sale pricing on a 64GB DDR5 kit.
Get this dealFree credits to get started
New-account credits on cloud GPUs and hosting so you can build before you pay.
Free starting credit for new accounts
New RunPod sign-ups can pick up a small balance to rent a GPU by the hour. Enough to run or fine-tune a model before you commit.
Get this deal$200 in credit over 60 days
New DigitalOcean accounts get a credit you can spend on droplets, databases or GPU droplets while you test a deploy.
Get this dealStarter credit on new signup
Railway hands new projects a small credit so you can ship a backend or a worker to a live URL without a card up front.
Get this dealFree trial credit for cloud GPUs
Paperspace promo credits cover a few hours on a notebook GPU. Handy for a quick local-LLM or training experiment.
Get this dealFree tiers worth keeping
Standing free plans that cover real projects with no card required.
Generous free tier for hobby projects
Vercel Hobby hosts personal frontends and serverless functions at no cost. Plenty for a portfolio or a side project.
Get this dealFree hosting and serverless functions
Netlify's free plan covers builds, hosting and functions for small sites. A clean way to put a static or Jamstack app online.
Get this dealFree plan with unmetered traffic
Cloudflare's free tier gives you a CDN, DNS and basic protection in front of any site, with no bandwidth bill.
Get this dealFree forever AI coding tier
Cursor's free tier lets you try AI-assisted editing with a monthly cap before deciding whether Pro is worth it.
Get this dealStudent offers
Free pro plans and credits if you can verify with a school email.
Free for verified students
Students and teachers in the GitHub Student Developer Pack get Copilot at no cost. Verify with your school email to enable it.
Get this dealFree pro tools through the student pack
The Student Developer Pack bundles free credits and pro plans across dozens of dev tools and cloud providers. One verification, many perks.
Get this dealNew deals and free credits, as they land
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