Airtable’s student offer is a real $480–576/year no-code database+app tool, free for up to 24 months — no card, no catch, and the .edu email isn’t even a hard wall.
What you actually get
- Sign up with a
.eduemail → 120-day Team trial kicks in automatically the moment you make a workspace (no card needed) - Apply for the Student Plan during that trial → 6–24 months of the full Team plan free, one workspace
- Team plan retails at $20–24/seat/month → 24 months = ~$480–576 of real value, free
- Works for international students too, not just US
Get it
- Sign up at airtable.com with your school email
- Create a workspace → check Workspace → Settings → Workspace plan, should show “Team Trial, 120 days”
- Apply here: Student Plan application — needs name, school email, grad month/year, workspace ID, school website
No real .edu? Still works.
Airtable’s own support docs confirm you can apply without a ‘.edu’ email at all — Airtable just asks for additional info to verify you. That verification runs through SheerID, the same engine gating Spotify/Prime/Adobe/GitHub student discounts. It accepts a real transcript, class schedule, or tuition receipt — not just an email domain.
Which means the free/cheap open-enrollment community-college route already covered in About subscribing to Codex doesn’t just unlock Codex — the same real .edu + SheerID identity clears this offer too, and every other SheerID-gated student deal out there. One real enrollment, stacks everywhere.
Don’t add a payment method to the trial unless you want it converting to paid Team when it ends — no card on file just downgrades to Free instead.
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