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- Free allowance
- Access to full catalog of services up to free amounts and $100 credit
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota$100 of egress at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB in total
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | Access to full catalog of services up to free amounts and $100 credit unit mixed; metered on downloaded-bytes |
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| Price | USD 100 of credit |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) $100 of egress at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB in total source
- write-gated full-time university enrolment verified through a school email address source
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| Binding | volume-quota two constraints fail before any byte moves: the school email gate, which a user does not have, and then $100 of credit, which at 1 TiB a month lasts 31 days. The identity gate fails first of all. |
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| Identity | institution Available only to full-time university students. Use your school email to sign up and renew yearly while you're a student. |
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| Egress | $100 of credit at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB, plus 100 GB a month free, so about 0.18 TiB a month across a 12-month renewal; ingress: udp free allowance: $100 of credit at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB, plus 100 GB a month free, so about 0.18 TiB a month across a 12-month renewal |
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| Interface | cli, rest Azure CLI and the Azure Resource Manager REST API |
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| Tooling | wg-quick on the VM; Azure CLI |
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| Reliability | the subscription must be renewed annually while enrolled or the free amounts stop |
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| Notes | Arithmetic: $100 over $0.087 a GB is 1,149.4 GB = 1.15 TB = 1.04 TiB, which spread across the 12 months the offer runs is 0.087 TiB a month, plus the 100 GB a month free egress at 0.091 TiB, so about 0.18 TiB a month. The no-card detail is real and is the only free-VM route that asks for no payment method, which is why it is recorded rather than dropped; it still needs an institution. |
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| Evidence note | documented nothing to raise: the eligibility sentence is unambiguous and excludes a user on its face |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 1.04 TiB
- price USD 100 credit
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Evidence 2
More fields 7
| wg path | native-conf |
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| wg detail | the same Azure VM and the same public IP as the paid offer, so wg-quick is native |
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| ingress | udp |
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| volume tib month | 0.18 |
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| volume stated | $100 of credit at $0.087 per GB is 1.04 TiB, plus 100 GB a month free, so about 0.18 TiB a month across a 12-month renewal |
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| bytes transit | yes |
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| transit note | the same Microsoft network and the same 100 GB a month free egress line as the paid account |
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Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer