Kiro
Student Benefits
Kiro for Students: 1,000 Free Credits a Month for a Year
Kiro, AWS's agentic coding environment, gives eligible university students 1,000 credits a month free for one full year through its Kiro Students tier — about $240 of value at Kiro Pro's $20-a-month rate, with no credit card required. Verify with your university email through SheerID, and after the year your account drops to the free tier with all your work intact. The catch is scope: the tier is limited to participating universities, not every student worldwide. Verified Oct 26, 2026.
What this offer actually gives you
Kiro is an agentic development environment built around spec-driven development: instead of jumping straight from a prompt to code, it turns your request into structured requirements, a design, and a task list, then works through the tasks — with steering files, agent hooks, checkpoints, and full project context along the way. The same agent runs in the desktop IDE, a terminal CLI, a web app, and a mobile app.
The Students tier gives you 1,000 credits per month for one full year at no cost, with access to premium models. Kiro Pro lists at $20 a month for 1,000 credits, which is where the roughly $240-a-year value comes from. Credits do not roll over month to month, and add-on credits are not available on the student tier — if you hit the monthly limit, you wait for the next cycle.
Eligibility is the part to read carefully. The programme launched with 11 universities and has since expanded to 132 universities across 18 countries, but it is still a participating-universities list, not an open-to-all-students offer. You need a university-affiliated email address (for example .edu or .ca) on your Kiro account, you must be 18 or older, and verification runs through SheerID. If your school is not listed yet, Kiro lets you submit your university email to request it, and you can start on the free tier in the meantime.
When the year ends, your account automatically downgrades to the Kiro free tier. Nothing is deleted: your code, specs, and projects stay on your machine and in your repositories, and you can upgrade to a paid tier at any time. Verification is one-time only, so make sure your details are correct before you confirm.
How to claim this offer
Kiro Students Tier: 1,000 Credits a Month, Free for a Year
Sign up at kiro.dev with your university email, verify your student status through SheerID, and get 1,000 Kiro credits a month free for one full year — no credit card, no trial timer. Credits reset monthly and do not roll over.
- 1,000 credits per month free for one full year
- No credit card required
- Access to premium models on the student tier
- Spec-driven agentic coding across IDE, CLI, web, and mobile
- After the year: automatic downgrade to the free tier, work kept
- Participating universities only — check the list before applying
How to claim this deal
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Open kiro.dev/students and sign up (or log in) with a Kiro account tied to your university-affiliated email address — via Google, GitHub, or AWS Builder ID.
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If you already have a Kiro account, link your university email to it first, then open your Account Usage page.
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Look for the 'You are eligible for Kiro Students' banner and complete the one-time SheerID verification (name, date of birth, university; sometimes a student ID or enrollment letter).
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Once verified, your 1,000 credits a month start for one full year. If your school is not listed, submit your university email in the 'Don't see your school listed?' section and use the free tier meanwhile.
Re-checked October 26, 2026 on kiro.dev/students: 1,000 credits a month for one year, no card, SheerID verification, 18+. The participating-universities limit is the key caveat — this is not open to every student. Credits do not roll over and add-on credits are not available on the student tier.
Key benefits
- A full year of agentic coding credits at no cost
- Spec-driven workflow: requirements and design before code
- Same agent across IDE, CLI, web, and mobile
- No card, no trial timer, work kept after downgrade
Eligibility and requirements
- A Kiro account with a university-affiliated email
- 18 or older
- One-time SheerID verification
- Students tier: 1,000 credits/month for 1 year
- Credits reset monthly, do not roll over
- No add-on credits on the student tier
- Participating universities only (132 universities, 18 countries per AWS coverage)
- After 1 year: automatic downgrade to the free tier
- No published programme end date
Pro tip
Verify once and verify right: SheerID verification is one-time only, so link the correct university email before you confirm. And since credits do not roll over, spend them each month on a real task rather than saving them up.
Who is eligible?
Eligibility requirements
Student at a participating university, 18 or older, with a university-affiliated email address on the Kiro account; student status verified once through SheerID.
Kiro offer FAQs
How do I get the Kiro Students tier?
Sign up at kiro.dev with a Kiro account tied to your university email (Google, GitHub, or AWS Builder ID), then verify your student status through SheerID from your Account Usage page. Once verified, you get 1,000 credits a month free for one year.
Do I need a university email for Kiro Students?
Yes. Your Kiro account must be associated with a university-affiliated email address (for example .edu or .ca), whichever sign-up option you choose.
Is Kiro Students open to every student?
No — only students at participating universities. The programme launched with 11 universities and has expanded to 132 universities in 18 countries, but if your school is not on the list, submit your university email on the students page to request it and use the free tier meanwhile.
Do unused Kiro student credits roll over?
No. Credits reset at the start of each monthly cycle and do not roll over, and add-on credits are not available on the student tier.
What happens when my Kiro student year ends?
Your account automatically downgrades to the Kiro free tier. Your code, specs, and projects stay on your machine and in your repositories, and you can upgrade to a paid tier at any time.
Does Kiro Students need a credit card?
No. Kiro states it plainly: no credit card, no trial timer — just the SheerID student verification.
About Kiro
Kiro (kiro.dev) is AWS's agentic development environment for software engineering, built around spec-driven development: requirements, design, and tasks before code, with agents that run across the IDE, CLI, web, and mobile.
