🎓 A free year of premium Claude — who qualifies, what proves it, and the route for outside the US

Tutorials & Methods
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Find your row, pass the gate, claim the year — and every claim carries its receipt :compass:

① your row → ② the gate → ③ the claim → ④ the year

Your row Your route The one requirement
US K-12 teacher, aide, coach, librarian or admin verify yourself a school address and the affiliation document
US school or district technology lead the district organisation domain control and an identity provider
Educator outside the US the global network membership of a national network organisation
Academic or non-profit researcher the research-group plan a principal investigator and a verified group
University member the campus programme your institution’s sign-in

The gate is a US K-12 affiliation that Anthropic’s partner Goodstack confirms from a document[1][2].

A school address starts that check. The offer runs to 30 June 2027[2:1].

:globe_showing_europe_africa: Outside the US

The two gate chains — one to verify yourself, one for a whole district

Verify yourself

  • Sign in with the school address your district issues
  • Open Claude for Teachers and choose Get verified
  • Goodstack confirms the affiliation from your document
  • Keep working while it runs — usually inside a day, up to three
  • Approval upgrades the account on its own

The district organisation — for the authorised technology lead[6]

  • Apply at claude.ai/k12districts and accept the K-12 terms[7]
  • Goodstack confirms the school or district, then emails the new organisation’s link
  • Publish the DNS TXT record on the district domain and verify it
  • Connect the identity provider: SSO required, just-in-time or SCIM provisioning on
  • Migrate accounts inside the 30-day window
  • One application per email domain at a time[8]
What lands in your account — and the four things worth knowing
  • The full Enterprise product: web, desktop and mobile, plus Claude Code, Cowork and Claude Design[8:1]
  • The K-12 teaching plugin and the Learning Commons connector with state standards and curricula
  • The same usage allowance as an individual educator account, at no cost[8:2]
  • One K-12 terms set and a data processing agreement accepted once for everyone[9]
  • Verified domains · SSO · roles · usage reporting · the Compliance API
  • Who qualifies: classroom teachers, instructional coaches and aides, librarians and media specialists, special-education staff, school and district administrators — 18 or older, educator accounts only
  • Already paying for Pro: verify on the same account, and the unused part of the paid period returns as a prorated credit
  • Re-verification comes round again, so keep the affiliation evidenced
  • University members: the campus programme at claude.com/solutions/education[10]

One gate, one document, one year — and a receipt on every line.

  1. Claude for K-12 teachers — claude.com/solutions/teachers · US K-12 educators and districts get premium Claude at no cost ↩︎

  2. Introducing Claude for Teachers — anthropic.com/news/claude-for-teachers · Goodstack confirms affiliation; sign up by 30 June 2027 ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. Anthropic × Teach For All — anthropic.com/news/anthropic-teach-for-all · educators across 63 countries ↩︎

  4. Team plan for scientists — support.claude.com/en/articles/16634237 · free standard seats, 12 months, principal investigator signs up ↩︎

  5. Scientists programme page — claude.com/programs/team-plan-for-scientists ↩︎

  6. Schools and districts — claude.com/blog/claude-for-teachers-now-available-for-schools-and-districts · the enterprise organisation ↩︎

  7. The district application — claude.ai/k12districts · where the technology lead applies ↩︎

  8. District setup guide — support.claude.com/en/articles/16559896 · the five steps, one application per domain, the 30-day migration ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  9. Your data and our terms — support.claude.com/en/articles/15926041 · what applies to an educator account ↩︎

  10. Claude for higher education — claude.com/solutions/education ↩︎

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🌐 GoDaddy pays for your domain for three years — two ways past the student check
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anyone there who had tried it and simplify so that i can grab the subscription

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:up_arrow: The Core-Community team has AI-upgraded the topic above.

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notify me too!

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Do not waste your time on this method; there are clearly red flags in this post.

Anthropic wants actual verified US K-12 educators or a real school/district with an authorized admin. A volunteer letter or random course certificate doesn’t magically make someone eligible, and just buying a domain / registering something as a “school” doesn’t mean Anthropic will accept it either.

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:up_arrow: The Core-Community team has rebuilt the topic above — a complete playbook, five routes from nothing to 12 months of Claude, every source verified.

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Clearly, a misleading post

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:up_arrow: The Core-Community team has rebuilt the topic above on Anthropic’s own published terms — the real gate, the five steps, the routes that exist outside the US, and a receipt on every claim.