Compare 6 free education tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 1 requires an application or qualification. We could not confirm today's terms for 5 of them: on 4 the page we cite did not answer, and on 1 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
What this name holds: Courses and learning platforms.
We track 6 education services with a free tier we hold as current. This category has been mostly stable — only 1 pricing change recorded across all vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Workers | Student Program | Workers for Students — 12 months free paid-tier access for US students (18+, verified .edu email). Workers: 10M requests/month. KV: 10M reads/month, 1M write/delete/list ops/month. Hyperdrive: unlimited daily queries. Durable Objects: 1M requests/day. Workers Logs: 20M events/month, 7-day retention. Logpush: 10M events/month. Queues: 1M operations/month. Expanding to non-US students in futureRestricted to student applicants — not generally available.Eligibility: US-based student 18+; Verified .edu email address; 12-month durationOur read on 2026-09-22 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-22 / 2026-09-03 |
| Khan Academy | Free | Fully free education platform. Math, science, computing, humanities, test prep (SAT, LSAT, MCAT). Video lessons, exercises, progress tracking. Personalized learning dashboard. Teacher tools. No ads. Nonprofit. | 2026-09-28 |
| Duolingo | Free | Free language learning (40+ languages). Gamified lessons (5 lives system). Daily streak tracking. Leaderboards. Basic stories. No unlimited hearts, no offline lessons, no advanced progress quizzes on free. Ad-supported.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-10 / 2026-08-20 |
| MIT OpenCourseWare | Free | Fully free access to MIT course materials. 2,500+ courses. Lecture notes, problem sets, exams, video lectures. No registration required. No certificates or credits. Creative Commons licensed.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-21 |
| Coursera | Free | Free preview of the first module of nearly every course; Coursera replaced its free audit option with this preview on 2025-08-08. Full course access and certificates need Coursera Plus or a subscription, with a 7-day free trial.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-22, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-22 / 2026-08-22 |
| edX | Free (Audit) | Free audit track for most courses. Video lectures, readings, discussion forums. No certificates, no graded assignments on audit. Courses from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and 200+ universities. Some courses fully free.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-22 |