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Per a widely circulated post on Reddit's r/artificial, Cursor is now offering every verified student a full year of its Pro subscription at no cost — no credit card, no trial conversion, no catch. The plan unlocks GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini inside what has become one of the most popular AI-assisted coding environments in the market. At $20 per month, the giveaway is worth $240.
The strategic logic is blunt: the developer who spends four years in college with Cursor as their default coding environment does not switch on day one of employment. Cursor is buying loyalty at the exact moment it costs nothing to acquire — before habits, muscle memory, and team norms have formed.
No competing product has matched the offer. GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and Replit have each fought for the student market with discounts and free tiers, but none has delivered an unconditional full-year Pro giveaway. Imitation, in some form, is coming.
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