Bolt Pro 50% off for students (1 year, SheerID verified)
Source: https://bolt.new/education-discount
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+ 1 StackBlitz Bolt.new offers a 50% education discount on Bolt Pro for verified students (and free Bolt Pro for educators) via SheerID verification. Pro normally costs $25/month with 10M tokens/month — students pay ~$12.50/month for the same allocation. The discount is valid for 1 year and is renewable while you remain enrolled. Bolt is an in-browser AI app builder (Claude/GPT-class models writing full-stack code, deploying to Netlify, etc.) — Pro removes the daily token cap and unlocks private projects, custom domains, larger file uploads, and token rollover.
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Heads-up (May 2026): the dedicated /education-discount landing page has been intermittently unavailable on bolt.new in recent months — multiple deal-tracker sites flag the offer as "temporarily paused" while the underlying support docs and SheerID flow still reference it. If the verification page 404s, contact support@stackblitz.com and reference the education discount; many users have reported manual approval. Always check the live page before paying full price.
Heads-up (May 2026): the dedicated /education-discount landing page has been intermittently unavailable on bolt.new in recent months — multiple deal-tracker sites flag the offer as "temporarily paused" while the underlying support docs and SheerID flow still reference it. If the verification page 404s, contact support@stackblitz.com and reference the education discount; many users have reported manual approval. Always check the live page before paying full price.
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+ 9 1. Create a Bolt account at bolt.new (Google / GitHub / email — no credit card required for the free tier).
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+ 10 2. Go to the education discount page: bolt.new/education-discount (if 404, see fallback below).
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+ 11 3. Click "Verify Student Status" — this opens a SheerID form in a popup/iframe.
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+ 12 4. Fill in the SheerID form:
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+ 13 • Full legal name (must match school records)
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+ 14 • Date of birth
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+ 15 • Country and name of your school/university
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• Active student/educator email (institutional .edu / .ac.uk / .edu.au etc. preferred)
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+ 17 5. SheerID auto-verifies most institutional emails within seconds. If your school is not recognized, SheerID will ask you to upload proof (current student ID, enrollment letter, transcript dated within last 12 months) — manual review takes 1–3 business days.
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+ 18 6. On approval, SheerID emails you a unique discount code.
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+ 19 7. Go to bolt.new/pricing → choose Pro, click upgrade.
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+ 20 8. Paste the SheerID code at checkout — Pro price drops to ~$12.50/month (or proportional discount on annual billing).
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+ 21 9. Complete payment (credit card required at this step).
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Fallback if /education-discount is down: email support@stackblitz.com from your school address, mention you want the education discount, and ask for a manual verification link. Several users on r/boltnewbuilders have reported success this way.
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+ 29 GroupDiscountVerification
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+ 30 Students (any level — high school, undergrad, graduate) currently enrolled50% off Bolt Pro ($12.50/mo)SheerID (institutional email or document upload)
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+ 31 Educators / teachers / faculty at accredited K–12 or higher-ed institutionsFree Bolt Pro (effectively $25/mo discount applied automatically)SheerID (faculty email or staff ID upload)
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+ 32 Homeschool teachersTreated as educators (free Pro)SheerID document upload (homeschool affidavit / curriculum proof)
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+ 34 • Worldwide eligibility — SheerID supports thousands of institutions across 200+ countries (US, UK, EU, India, LATAM, APAC).
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+ 35 • Renewable annually by re-verifying through SheerID — your status flips off automatically when the year ends; you must re-submit to continue the discount.
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+ 36 • Cannot be combined with annual-plan promo codes (the 50% applies on top of the regular monthly Pro price, not on top of the annual ~28% saving).
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+ 42 FeatureFreePro (Student price $12.50/mo)
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+ 43 Monthly tokens~150K (with daily cap)10,000,000
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+ 44 Daily token capYes (~150K/day)None
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+ 45 Token rolloverNoUp to 2 months (since July 2025)
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+ 46 Public projectsYesYes
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+ 47 Private projectsNoYes
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+ 48 Bolt branding on deployed sitesRequiredRemoved
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+ 49 File upload limitSmall100 MB
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+ 50 Custom domainNoYes
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+ 51 Web requests / monthLimitedUp to 1M
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+ 52 DatabasesLimitedUnlimited
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+ 53 SEO + AI image editingNoYes
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+ 55 Pro tokens roll over for one extra month (so unused tokens stay valid up to 2 months total) — useful around exam periods when you can't code daily.
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+ 61 Bolt routes prompts to top frontier models (you don't pick the model — Bolt picks the best one for the task). As of May 2026 the lineup includes (per StackBlitz changelog):
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+ 63 • Anthropic Claude Sonnet (current default for code generation)
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+ 64 • Anthropic Claude Opus (heavy reasoning tasks)
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+ 65 • OpenAI GPT-4-class models for fallback / specialized prompts
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+ 66 • Bolt's in-house tooling for diff application, file editing, and Vite/Next.js scaffolding
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+ 68 Token accounting: 1M tokens roughly equals 30–80 medium-sized prompts depending on project size — see the official tokens explainer. Source: Bolt model + token docs.
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+ 74 Bolt's referral program is separate from the education discount and stacks on top of it. You can claim it the moment you go Pro.
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+ 76 1. Open Bolt → Settings → Referrals → copy your unique link.
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+ 77 2. Share with friends. When a friend signs up and activates their account via your link → both of you get 200,000 bonus tokens.
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+ 78 3. If that friend upgrades to a paid plan within 30 days → both of you get an additional 5,000,000 bonus tokens (the headline reward).
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+ 79 • Catch: the 5M Pro-upgrade bonus only triggers if you (the referrer) are also on a paid plan. Free-tier users get only the 200K bonus.
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+ 80 • The 30-day clock starts at the friend's signup, not the upgrade attempt.
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+ 81 4. No cap on number of referrals — Bolt generated 1B tokens via this program in the first 9 hours after launch (2024).
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+ 83 Stacking strategy for students: verify via SheerID first → upgrade to Pro at $12.50/mo → then refer 1–2 friends → if they go Pro, you've effectively earned 10M+ bonus tokens for $12.50 — that's months of building.
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+ 89 • Annual billing saves up to 28% on top of the monthly price across all paid tiers.
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+ 90 • Pro scales: Pro 50 ($50/mo, 26M tokens), Pro 100 ($100/mo, 55M), up to Pro 200 ($200/mo, 120M tokens).
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+ 91 • The student 50% discount applies to the base Pro tier ($25 → $12.50). For higher Pro tiers, check whether SheerID code applies — it has historically been Pro-only.
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+ 92 • Teams plan ($30/member/mo) is NOT eligible for the student discount.
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+ 98 • Credit card required at checkout even with the SheerID code — Bolt charges $12.50/mo immediately, recurring monthly until cancelled or the 1-year discount expires.
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+ 99 • After the 1-year window, your subscription silently renews at full $25/mo unless you re-verify via SheerID. Set a calendar reminder.
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+ 100 • Don't burn tokens on huge prompts. Bolt's token meter charges for every file in context on each turn — keep projects small early on, and use the rollback feature instead of regenerating from scratch.
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+ 101 • The free tier daily cap is real (~150K tokens/day) — most non-trivial projects burn through it in a single session, which is why Pro is the meaningful upgrade.
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+ 102 • World's Largest Hackathon participants (Bolt's annual event) have historically received separate token grants (~10M tokens per participant) — worth combining with student status if eligible.
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• Bolt occasionally pauses or relaunches the education discount (last paused window was reported in early 2026). If /education-discount returns 404, the offer is temporarily off — check the pricing page footer or support@stackblitz.com.
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+ 107 Sources:
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+ 108 • Bolt.new Pricing
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+ 109 • Bolt Education Discount Page
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+ 110 • Bolt Referral Program (support docs)
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+ 111 • Bolt Tokens Explained
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+ 112 • Bolt official launch tweet — 200K signup + 5M Pro-upgrade referral
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+ 113 • GrowSurf case study on Bolt's referral program (1B tokens in 9 hours)
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+ 114 • Bolt Pricing 2026 breakdown — NoCode MBA
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+ 115 • Resourify — Bolt 50% student discount + 5M referral writeup
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+ 116 • SheerID Student Verification
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