Student Discounts on Streaming and Subscriptions in the US (2026)

Student discounts in the US are easy to find for music and hard to find for movies and games. A few student plans also include a second service at no extra cost, which can matter more than the discount itself. Below is what’s available, what isn’t, and the conditions in the small print.

There are no prices here on purpose — they change more often than the rules, and each service’s page shows the current price with the date it was checked.

Short answer

• Student plan or discount: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Premium and YouTube Music, TIDAL, Amazon Music Unlimited, SiriusXM, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Paramount+, Peacock, the Disney+, Hulu Bundle, Google AI Pro, Perplexity, Microsoft’s Office 365 A1, Codecademy, DataCamp, Strava and Headspace.
• Two services for one student price: Spotify Premium Student includes Hulu (With Ads), and Apple Music Student includes Apple TV.
• No student plan: Netflix, Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus, Nintendo Switch Online, iCloud+ and Claude. YouTube TV has none on its own plans.

Music

Spotify Premium Student — for eligible US college and university students. It includes Hulu (With Ads) at no extra cost. You can keep the student price for up to 4 years, re-verifying every 12 months through SheerID.

Apple Music Student — verified students also get Apple TV at no extra cost.

YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium — student memberships for students verified by SheerID, for up to 4 consecutive years.

TIDAL Student — for college and US high school students 16 and older, verified by SheerID. You reverify every 11 months.

Amazon Music Unlimited Student — for students at a degree-granting college or university, verified by SheerID, for up to 4 years. A Prime Student membership doesn’t verify you for it, and the monthly audiobook isn’t included.

SiriusXM Student Streaming — for students 18 and older at a US degree-granting, accredited school, verified by SheerID every 12 months. It streams in the app; the car radio isn’t included.

TV and movies

Amazon Prime Student — Amazon offers discounted Prime memberships for students, and the Student membership includes Prime Video.

HBO Max — Basic with Ads at 50% off for up to 12 months, for students 18 and older verified by UNiDAYS.

Paramount+ — advertises 50% off for students.

Peacock — Peacock Premium at a discounted price for 12 months, then the regular Premium price. You must be 18 or older, enrolled at a Title IV-accredited US college or university and verified by SheerID every year.

Disney+ and Hulu — students at US universities and accredited degree- or certificate-granting institutions can get the Disney+, Hulu Bundle at a discount, verified by SheerID. To switch an existing plan, you must be billed directly by Disney+. Hulu also comes free with Spotify Premium Student.

No student plan: Netflix — its US plans are Standard with ads, Standard and Premium. YouTube TV has no student price on its own plans; the NFL Sunday Ticket Student Plan is bought as a YouTube Primetime Channel, not as part of YouTube TV.

AI and productivity

Google AI Pro — Google says students get Google AI Pro free for one year.

Perplexity Education Pro — for students and educators verified through SheerID.

Microsoft 365 — students and teachers with an eligible education email address can get Office 365 A1 free: the web versions of the core Office apps, not the full Personal or Family plan. Eligibility can be re-verified at any time, and when the plan expires, the apps become view-only.

No student plan: Claude — Anthropic says it doesn’t offer standard discounted pricing.

Learning

Codecademy — Pro Student is a steep discount for students 16 and older verified through Proxi.id. Verify before you buy.

DataCamp — the Premium student plan is more than 50% off for eligible students, and the GitHub Student Developer Pack gives 3 months free with no card needed.

Fitness and wellbeing

Strava — 50% off for verified students, on the annual plan only.

Headspace — 85% off for post-secondary and university students verified by SheerID.

Games and storage

No student plan: Xbox Game Pass (Essential, Premium, Ultimate and PC Game Pass), PlayStation Plus (Essential, Extra and Premium), Nintendo Switch Online and iCloud+ list no student price.

How verification works

Most student plans check your status through a third party: SheerID (Spotify, YouTube, TIDAL, Amazon Music, SiriusXM, Peacock, the Disney+, Hulu Bundle, Perplexity, Headspace), UNiDAYS (HBO Max) or Proxi.id (Codecademy). Many make you verify again every year — Spotify and SiriusXM every 12 months, TIDAL every 11.

Before you sign up

• Check when the student price ends. Several discounts have a time limit — up to 4 years at Spotify, YouTube and Amazon Music, up to 12 months at HBO Max — and the plan then renews at the regular price.
• Use the bundle you already have. If you pay for Spotify Premium Student, you already have Hulu (With Ads); Apple Music Student comes with Apple TV.
• Pay the provider directly when that’s required. Disney+ moves only plans billed directly by Disney+ to the student bundle.

To see what all your subscriptions cost together, use the subscription calculator. More ways to cut the bill — family plans, bundles and plans with ads — are in How to save money on subscriptions.