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Students and teachers

Free For Educational Use

Understand is free for students and teachers to use for educational purposes. Want to teach a class on code maintenance or need some metrics for your thesis? No problem, we got you covered.

Free for educational purposes · Apply with your educational email address · A quick two-step process

Getting the license

A quick two-step process

It’s a quick two-step process to register with your educational email address.

  1. Register for a free account

    Create a SciTools account using your educational email address — the address your school or university issued you.

  2. Apply for the educational license

    With the account in place, apply for the educational license. It is free for students and teachers using Understand for educational purposes.

The terms

Who qualifies, and for what

The educational license in the words this site uses for it.

TermWhat it says
CostFree
Who it is forStudents and teachers
What it may be used forEducational purposes — for example, teaching a class on code maintenance, or gathering metrics for a thesis
How to registerWith your educational email address
How to get itTwo steps: register for a free account, then apply for the educational license
In the classroom and the lab

What you can do with it

The same tool engineers use on production codebases, on your coursework and research.

Get started

Free for students and teachers

Register with your educational email address, apply for the license, and use Understand for your coursework, teaching or research.

Questions about eligibility? Email [email protected]