Short, practical writing on choosing software and judging whether a discount is worth taking.
savings-guides · 4 min read
Student offers, teacher offers, free tiers and trials, with the deadlines and the countries attached. Everything here was checked against the company's own page, and anything we could not check is named as unchecked.
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savings-guides · 3 min read
Invite a friend and get more usage sounds simple. In practice these campaigns run in a handful of countries, last a few weeks, and are written about for months after they end. Here is how to read one before you spend an evening on it.
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savings-guides · 4 min read
There is a lot of advice online about getting Claude Pro for nothing. Most of it describes a prize draw or an offer that has ended. Here are the routes that are real in September 2026, and the ones worth ignoring.
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OpenAI's back to school offer gives eligible US college and graduate students four free monthly billing periods of ChatGPT Plus. The claim deadline is 31 October 2026. Existing subscribers can qualify too, with one catch about how you pay.
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savings-guides · 5 min read
Anthropic is giving verified K-12 teachers in the United States free access to premium Claude features, plus lesson planning tied to state standards. Sign up by 30 June 2027 for a full year. Here is who qualifies and what you get.
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savings-guides · 3 min read
Platforms that resell every frontier model for one monthly fee are having a moment. The maths is real, the savings claim is inflated, and the cheapest tier almost never includes the model you came for.
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savings-guides · 3 min read
The marketplace fee, the contract initiation fee, and the discount most people never claim. Plus how the $35 referral gift card really works, including the condition that catches people out.
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savings-guides · 4 min read
A $100 gig does not cost the buyer $100 or pay the seller $100. Here are both fees, worked through with real numbers, and the order sizes where the maths changes.
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A $2.99 plan that renews at $10.99 is not a scam, but it is not $2.99 either. Here is the arithmetic the industry relies on you not doing, and how to buy hosting with your eyes open.
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savings-guides · 5 min read
A checked list of student offers worth claiming, in the order that gets you the most for the least effort, including two widely repeated claims that turn out to be wrong.
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