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- First, use your edu-email to get GitHub, JetBrains, and Zed.
- Choose student AI services like YX Flow, GLaDOS, etc., based on your needs.
- Aliyun and Cloudflare Pages are suitable for continuing to practice with servers and websites.
Don’t just use your edu-email for school notifications.
My own order is simple: first apply for long-term useful stuff like GitHub and JetBrains, then look into AI, networking, and servers.
Here’s an overview compiled by someone else https://nav.edumails.cn that you can check out. Below are the resources I’ve claimed.
Grab Developer Tools First
GitHub Student Developer Pack comes first.
Once verified, you get GitHub Pro and a bunch of partner benefits. Just log into your Pack page to see them.
JetBrains Student License If you want to try out JetBrains’ products, you can also use your edu-email to register.
Zed Education I also applied for this and got a one-year Student plan, with $10 in Agent tokens, plus unlimited edit prediction.
It’s not the full Pro version; Claude Opus is not included.
For Zed, there are two conditions: your GitHub account must be older than 30 days, and your school email domain must be in JetBrains/swot.
YX Flow’s Actual Free Quota
This is a shared AI web client project.
After registering with my .edu.cn email, the backend only gave me two new user trials.
As of July 11, 2026, the page shows ChatGPT Max with 40 uses/3 hours, and Grok Plus with 10 uses/hour, both expiring at 23<11> on the same day.
If you want to use the API to connect your own tools, you can check out Free AI API Entry Points and Navigation.
Networking and Servers
GLaDOS Education offers:
- If you are a high school to university student or teacher (China), you can get a free 360-day GLaDOS Education Plan.
- If you are a medical school student or teacher (China), you can get a free 360-day GLaDOS Pro Plan.
- If you are a student outside mainland China, you can get a free 14-day GLaDOS Education Plan (edu.kg also works).
- This is a one-time offer.
- Supports 3 active devices, up to 100GB traffic per month, uses economic servers (not optimized for streaming content), does not support Netflix unlocking, and does not support advanced features.
You can use this invitation code to register: JZELF-GSULR-G5LFS-BD1S4
If you do pay, you can use my discount code AMIYADESI at checkout for a 10% discount when paying with Alipay.
Aliyun Student Portal’s 300 RMB voucher is not cash, nor can it be used for all products.
If you want to buy ECS, Light Application Server, Baolian API, or Wuying, add them to your cart first and check the settlement page.
My actual pitfalls and several optional directions are written in What You Can Buy with Aliyun Student’s 300 RMB Voucher.
If your website is just for course projects, documentation, or portfolios, start with GitHub Pages or Cloudflare Pages. Only touch servers when those aren’t enough.
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