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Cursor Pro One Year Free ($0) for Students @ Cursor

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Cursor Pro One Year Free ($0) for Students @ Cursor
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noname657 on 07/05/2025 - 10:32 cursor.com (2890 clicks)
Last edited 07/05/2025 - 12:14 by 1 other user

Cursor Pro (USD$192) is free for one year for students.

It is a super powerful AI editor for programming. I don't think I need to introduce it.

SheerID is used for verification - https://verify.sheerid.com/student-faq-b/

Frequently asked questions

How do I get the student discount?
Verify your student status by clicking "Verify Status" at the top of the page and following the instructions. If you are an existing Cursor Pro user, you'll receive an automatic refund for the remaining billing cycle and the discount will be applied automatically. If you don't already have Cursor Pro, you must sign up for Cursor Pro in your account settings after you verify your student status to take advantage of the discount.

What is included with the student discount?
You will have access to all Pro features for a year. This includes 500 fast premium requests per month and unlimited slow premium requests. However, you will be charged for any usage over the 500 fast premium requests per month if you enable usage based pricing.

What happens after the year is up?
Your subscription will automatically renew at the regular price. You can cancel at any time, but you will only keep access through the end of the current billing period.

Can I use the student discount if I already have a Cursor subscription?
Yes, you can use the student discount if you already have a Cursor subscription. We will automatically cancel your existing subscription, refund your unused time, and apply the discount effective immediately to your new subscription.

How does Cursor perform on my codebase?
Cursor efficiently handles massive codebases with hundreds of thousands of files through smart indexing.

Where can I ask more questions?
If you have more questions, feel free to email us directly at [email protected].

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Comments

  • jv on 07/05/2025 - 10:39
    +12

    Cursor Pro One Year Free

    So this helps you swear professionally?

    • InsertCrow on 07/05/2025 - 10:41
      +7

      Nah you can change the boring old regular mouse cursor into something cool, like a sword or a middle finger.

      • jv on 07/05/2025 - 10:43
        +3

        or a middle finger.

        đź–•

    • Bigfellaborham on 07/05/2025 - 10:45
      +1

      Bold of you to say that

    • paw on 14/05/2025 - 12:12

      It's a character-building product: it makes your colleague fixing your stuff swear at you more.

  • Zuelly on 07/05/2025 - 10:51
    +6

    Thanks OP
    Could be good to mention that if you change from Monthly to Yearly plan, can cancel after signup to make sure you don’t get charged in a year.

    Also, showing $192 USD for me. Could be doing something wrong, but anyways, good deal.

    • noname657 on 07/05/2025 - 10:57
      +1

      fixed, thanks

      • turnipy on 07/05/2025 - 19:53

        High school id ok? Or needs to be uni/tafe?

  • The Fixer on 07/05/2025 - 10:55
    +1

    For any aspiring developers, this is a great program. Even though it is VS Code with a skin (VS Code is free), the AI functionality is fantastic - especially for Vibe coding. I recommend that you change the engine to Gemini 2.5 pro-exp to get the most out of it.

    • ilovefullprice on 07/05/2025 - 12:04
      +2

      VS Code themselves are also integrating AI onto their IDE, albeit very slowly.

      • FujinShu on 07/05/2025 - 13:34

        I wonder how? Will it be exclusive to Microsoft’s Copilot, or can we choose our own chatbots and models?

        • idonotknowwhy on 07/05/2025 - 16:46
          +2

          If you want to use local models, this seems to work best:

          https://github.com/RooVetGit/Roo-Code

          Though there's a HUGE capability gap between anything local vs the paid APIs.

          • FujinShu on 08/05/2025 - 04:14

            @idonotknowwhy: I have used continue.dev in 2023 for some time, and it worked decently. I wonder what’s happened to that project…

        • cuteseal on 07/05/2025 - 22:35

          I just started using Vscode and the Copilot features and it's been simply mindblowing. For me the two best features:

          1. Autocompletion on steroids

          Basically you start typing a code block and it will generate all the logic based on what it thinks you are trying to do.
          For example I just started typing a comment

          # Append search term to history file

          And it auto-suggested:

             if [ -f "$search_list_file" ]; then
       sed -i "\#^$search_term\$#d" "$search_list_file"
       echo "$search_term" >>"$search_list_file"
       total=$(cat "$search_list_file" | wc -l)
       if [ "$total" -gt 100 ]; then
           sed -i '1d' "$search_list_file"
       fi
   fi

          And all I had to do was press tab to accept. Obviously not Bill Gates level coding but it could at least generate the structure and error handling logic to get started and then I can tailor it to my needs.

          1. Sidebar magic

          The other thing is that it basically has Copilot chat in the sidebar. I can highlight some code and type "what's does this line do" and it will say something like:

          The selected line:

          show_message "Added $(get_rom_alias "$file") to $collection" 2

          Explanation:
          This line displays a message to the user indicating that a game has been added to a collection. Here's a breakdown of what it does:

          1. get_rom_alias "$file"
            Purpose: The get_rom_alias function is called with the variable $file as its argument. This function processes the file path to generate a cleaned-up, user-friendly alias for the ROM (game).
            Steps in get_rom_alias:
            Extracts the file name from the full file path using basename.
            Removes the file extension using ${filename%.*}.
            Cleans up the file name by:
            Removing text in parentheses ().
            Removing text in square brackets [].
            Trimming trailing whitespace.
            Example:
            Input: /mnt/SDCARD/Roms/Game1 (USA) [v1.0].rom
            Output: Game1
            …

          I can also ask ways to improve my code and it will suggest error handling, look for any errors or incorrect usage, unused code and lots of other things.

    • ThatWolfie on 08/05/2025 - 00:25
      +6

      aspiring developers should not use this. you will learn nothing and become over reliant on AI. don't use any ai assistance if you don't know what you're doing

  • averycarson on 07/05/2025 - 10:58
    +1

    Now how do i get .edu for this?

    • The Savage Llama on 07/05/2025 - 11:04

      Enrol in tafe/uni, or get a job in the education industry

    • tessel on 07/05/2025 - 11:22
      +1

      Getting .edu isn't the problem. You need to be get verified by SheerID. That's the hard part.

      • xrailgun on 07/05/2025 - 20:23

        how hard?

    • bcYield on 07/05/2025 - 11:42

      Turkey EDU might help if possible.

      • averycarson on 07/05/2025 - 12:43

        Any way to get it

        • teek82 on 07/05/2025 - 13:02
          +4

          Go on to Blackhatworld and buy an international .edu account. Make sure it is a Google account that you buy. Cost like $3 USD in crypto and then use a Revolut virtual card for 0.00 payment. So I’m told…

  • dammit on 07/05/2025 - 11:07
    +2

    Cursor Pro
    Cursor Pro unlocks unlimited Tab completions, 500 fast premium requests per month, unlimited uses of mini models, and 10 o1-mini uses per day.
    Billed annually
    $192.00

    Save $48 with annual billing (Ticked)

    Subtotal
    $192.00
    Student Discount
    -$192.00

    100% off for a year

    Worked a treat, thanks OP!

    Only catch was I did have to provide a CC and address/DOB (Could've probably faked that bit)

  • SpaceNinja on 07/05/2025 - 11:10
    +11

    Cruel Joke by Cursor: Showing students why they may not get any jobs.

    • BuyLowLetsGo on 07/05/2025 - 11:33

      Scarcity mindset.

      Same could have been said for coachman when the car was invented.

      …Typist when the word processor was born.

      Etc.

      Vibe coding has been democratised. You're in charge now to build whatever you want.

      • miicah on 07/05/2025 - 13:01
        +4

        Vibe coding has been democratised. You're in charge now to build whatever you want.

        From what I've seen on /r/vibecoding, good luck if you ever get to state where the AI can't fix it. No one is going to want to touch your vibe coded AI slop code to fix it.

        • BuyLowLetsGo on 07/05/2025 - 13:43
          +3

          Skill issue. :)

          No one's asking you to build the next Apple from the get go. Build bespoke tools you want to use yourself; 10x your job/business. I've done it and it's amazing.

          I just dislike the mindset that tools like these are zero or negative sum (e.g. students may not get any jobs because of laziness "trained" in using these tools). It's disruptive, but time to get with it.

          • idonotknowwhy on 07/05/2025 - 16:42
            +2

            @BuyLowLetsGo:

            Build bespoke tools you want to use yourself

            +1, though unless it's like a single-use app (which is extremely useful by the way), I've had better luck "chat-coding". Some of the shit gemini produces is unmaintainable.

            It's disruptive, but time to get with it.

            Yep, stubborn programmers with 20 years+ experience will be the first to lose work during this disruption.

  • bayleyb on 07/05/2025 - 11:10
    +1

    Insanely good deal, thank you OP.

  • Anon257 on 07/05/2025 - 11:12
    +29

    Sell AI to student devs early so they get hooked and don't learn to code without it

    Master strategy

    • teek82 on 07/05/2025 - 13:06
      +2

      Cursor is not that good. Starts hallucinating and gets lazy. Rate limits exist, I use it to make small applications - and then join them together for something actually useful.

      Best thing is that you can use Claude 3.7. Best for coding and use of images.

      • boozed on 07/05/2025 - 20:29

        Fun fact! All generative AI outputs are hallucinations.

        • teek82 on 07/05/2025 - 21:15

          Not by definition of the 2025 AI reference. But I’m guessing your being facetious.

          • boozed on 08/05/2025 - 14:33

            @teek82: LLMs have no concept of truth and all outputs are statistically equivalent, whether we define them as being "good" or "bad".

            The concept of "hallucination" is just nonsense anthropomorphising of a mathematical model.

            • teek82 on 10/05/2025 - 10:28

              @boozed: This is true, and unfortunately there is just too much incomplete or wrong information out there, that not everything the say is fact/non-fiction. They are only as good as their data sources.

              Fake news and speculation are toxic to LLM output.

              • boozed on 16/05/2025 - 22:50

                @teek82: Their data sources at this point are literally every word ever published by humanity. They're statistical models of which words (or tokens) are more likely appear together.

        • bio on 08/05/2025 - 10:00

          Are you an AI?

          • boozed on 08/05/2025 - 14:33

            @bio: Yes. I mean no!

            Darn.

    • braddsey on 07/05/2025 - 13:12
      +2

      Apply this to any learning these days.
      In the old days we went to the library, used books for research.
      Next research moved online - google want you need to know, sort through the first page of google results.
      Now google what you want, google AI provides the answer.
      …or ask ChatGPT, it writes your response.

      Will be interesting what kind of society we have in 20-30 years when the AI generation are moving through adult lives.

    • Pacify on 07/05/2025 - 14:08

      A part of learning is learning to use the resources and tools available to you.

      AI is here to stay as far as coding goes, and as a tool I doubt its going stop being relevant.

      • miicah on 07/05/2025 - 21:10
        +4

        A part of learning is learning

        What are you actually learning? Certainly not how to code, the AI is doing that for you (if you actually are vibe coding).

    • Tacooo on 07/05/2025 - 14:24
      +2

      Real programmers hate this one trick (with a burning passion).

      • justtoreply on 07/05/2025 - 14:37

        Ad served to you by blooba

      • teek82 on 07/05/2025 - 15:34
        +1

        Real programmers should take advantage of it where possible to save time and money. I use cursor for editing Wordpress themes. I have no idea how to edit or create a them from scratch but I know how to engineer prompts for the best outcomes. Vibe coding is not as simple as asking it do do x, you need to create parameter, limitations, use MCP Severs to the maximum advantage. Telling the agent when they are wrong, you need to know how to instruct the machine, else it will do whatever it wants without consultation.

    • Chizzle on 07/05/2025 - 17:02

      This is why windows has such a massive market share - first to get into Schools

    • bio on 08/05/2025 - 10:02

      It's not a new strategy. Every student discount basically aims to train their potential customers early so that the talent stays abundant.

  • red light special on 07/05/2025 - 11:49
    +2

    How to give proprietary code over 101

  • iDrownFish on 07/05/2025 - 11:55

    Thanks OP!

  • wewehalim on 07/05/2025 - 12:23
    +1

    wah, i want this.
    How can I get this if i am not student?

    I just use cursor for a month and I am in love, so powerful

    • tessel on 07/05/2025 - 14:03
      +4

      Sign-up to a massive HECS debt for Cursor access.

  • Pmpm1898 on 07/05/2025 - 12:57

    What should I do if I can't check my student status?

  • railspider on 07/05/2025 - 13:18
    +1

    How strict is SheerID? I have an old school email address that is accessible, but not technically a student

    • Tacooo on 07/05/2025 - 14:25
      +12

      They send a rep out to the school and pull you out of class, then force you to show ID. Be careful.

      • OzzyBrak on 08/05/2025 - 01:18

        RAILSPIDER! Show yourself!

    • SaintKildaMan on 07/05/2025 - 22:45

      Not strict! Give it a go

  • d4devil on 07/05/2025 - 13:43
    +1

    Thanks OP!. Subscribed to 1 year of cursor now.

  • Tacooo on 07/05/2025 - 14:25
    +1

    Can't wait to debug the most bloated spaghetti code ever.

  • LiamD on 07/05/2025 - 16:47
    -1

    Sugar is now free for diabetics.

  • Techefy on 07/05/2025 - 18:51

    Ow wow thats a gem

  • ggbhai on 07/05/2025 - 20:33

    Can we use high school id? or does it need uni?

    • noname657 on 08/05/2025 - 09:58

      I think it needs Uni or TAFE. You can try, and see if you school is in the list or not.

  • NitroJolt on 08/05/2025 - 08:16

    Thanks OP, would have never realised this discount existed.

  • motion2082 on 08/05/2025 - 14:24
    +1

    VS Code + Cline = Free
    VS Code + Roocode = Free
    Profit

  • pjwellsey on 12/05/2025 - 12:52
    +1

    FYI this gives you a free edu email https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/900088

    • noname657 on 13/05/2025 - 09:34

      Will it work for Cursor edu verification purpose?

      • pjwellsey on 13/05/2025 - 20:41

        Yep!

      • AssociatedExodazth @ Cursor on 14/05/2025 - 21:00

        not working

        • pjwellsey on 15/05/2025 - 14:46

          Ahhh the free edu expired :(

    • unfnshd on 14/05/2025 - 15:39

      expired

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