Codeium has announced a 50% discount on the pro subscription plan of its AI coding platform Windsurf for students with an .edu email address.
The original pro subscription pricing sits at $15 per month, which gives 500 premium model user prompt credits and 1500 premium model flow action credits. A 50% discount on top of it for the students sounds like an attractive offer.
All you have to do is sign up for Codeium with an .edu email address and verify it. After this, one should see the discounted rate on the pricing page. Unfortunately, without an .edu email address, one cannot avail the discount, clarifies Codeium on its students section page.
In addition to the discount, Codeium has added the ‘Codeium AI Fellowship’ program. One can apply to join the AI Fellows program and work directly with the Codeium team to bring Windsurf to their campus through talks, workshops, events, and more.
The aim of the program is to educate students about AI tools and prepare them for the future of AI-enabled work.
Codeium also shared how one can use Windsurf to learn computer science:
Considering developers are ditching Cursor for Windsurf, it could be a great opportunity for students to try it out to its full potential with the discounted pricing.
“After three months of using Cursor, I switched to Windsurf and found it more cost-effective with its unlimited Cascade base model performing very close to Claude 3.5 Sonnet,” a developer said.
In a podcast hosted by Y Combinator, Jared Friedman highlighted the benefits of Windsurf, which he thinks is why people are switching.
Combining his sentiment with that of numerous netizens, it seems, Windsurf is becoming the new favourite among developers.
