GitHub Student Developer Pack

Mockzilla is free for students

Build real projects against realistic APIs without burning your hackathon budget on a sandbox. Free for every verified student, the whole time you're enrolled.

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Manual review, usually 1–2 business days. No card required, ever.

What's in the Student plan

A dedicated tier sized for coursework, side projects, and learning. Same engine as our paid plans, no feature lock-outs.

Double the memory

Your mocks run with 2x the memory of the Free plan. Heavier logic, larger response bodies, no thinking about per-request limits.

Triple the execution time

Each request gets 3x the wall time of Free. Plenty of room for chained calls, big fixtures, or a slow piece of code you're still iterating on.

Five simulations in parallel

Run a separate mock per project: capstone, hackathon, your OSS contribution, your interview prep. All five stay live at once, no swapping in and out.

Inspect every request

Recent request history per simulation, viewable directly in the workspace. See exactly what your code sent and what your mock replied, no extra logging to wire up.

Bring a classmate

Invite one more verified student to your workspace and build together. Share simulations, ship the demo, celebrate the grade as a team.

All paid features included

PR environments, codegen mode, custom response overrides. Every feature paying customers use is on for you by default, no separate add-ons.

No card, no $0 invoices, no silent downgrade

We never ask for a payment method. If your verification lapses, your mocks keep running read-only while you re-apply.

Built for student work

Concrete things you can ship this semester.

Capstone & senior projects

Mock the backend your teammate hasn't built yet. Demo your half of the project on its own.

Hackathons

Mock Stripe, Twilio, Binance, or any static OpenAPI spec in 30 seconds. Override any response on the fly so your demo takes the exact path you want. No keys, no rate limits, no surprises on stage.

Open-source contributions

Test your PRs against a contract-faithful API without needing prod credentials or a paid sandbox.

Interview & take-home prep

Practice integration coding against a realistic, reproducible API. Spin up the same fixture every time.

How verification works

1
Sign up with GitHub
Create your Mockzilla account using your GitHub login, or link GitHub from Settings if you already have one.
2
Apply from your settings
Go to Settings → Connected Accounts → Apply for Student plan. Paste a link to your GitHub Education profile, .edu page, or a screenshot of your Pack benefits.
3
We review by hand
GitHub disabled the automatic Pack verification API, so we check each application ourselves. Usually decided within 1–2 business days. You'll get an email either way.
4
Plan switches over instantly
Once approved, your workspace moves to the Student tier and any existing sims pick up the new limits on the next request.

For teachers, TAs, and CS clubs

If you teach a course, run a coding club, or organise a student hackathon and want to use Mockzilla as part of it, we'd like to hear from you. We can talk through classroom access, shared course simulations, and per-student visibility, without giving anyone bigger personal budgets than the regular Student plan.

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Frequently asked

Who counts as a student?: Anyone with an active GitHub Student Developer Pack membership. That covers most enrolled university and college students, plus many high-school and bootcamp students that GitHub has verified.
I'm in a coding bootcamp. Am I eligible?: If GitHub Education has verified you for the Pack, yes. We use GitHub's own verification as the source of truth, so we don't second-guess it.
I'm a graduate student or PhD candidate. Eligible?: Yes, same rule. If GitHub Education accepts your verification, the Student plan is yours.
How long does the plan last?: As long as GitHub Education recognises you as a student. When GitHub renews your Pack verification, your Student plan renews along with it. No fixed term we impose on our side.
What happens when I graduate?: Your sims keep running for 30 days so nothing breaks mid-project, then your workspace drops to the Free plan. You can subscribe to any paid tier at any point.
Can I use the Student plan for paid client work or my startup?: No. The Student plan is for personal learning, coursework, hackathons, and open-source contributions. Once you're billing a client or shipping a real product, please move to a paid plan. That keeps this offer sustainable for the next intake of students.
Can I have multiple Student accounts?: One Student plan per verified GitHub Education account. Creating extra accounts to stack limits will get all of them suspended.
Do you collect a payment method just in case?: Never. There is no card, no $0 invoice, no "add payment method to continue". If you go over the Student limits, requests throttle until the next period. Your card is never charged because you never give us one.
Is the offer different from your paid plans?: Only in size. Same engine, same codegen mode, same PR environments, same regions. Nothing is hidden behind a paywall just for students.

Built to keep working

Open-source CLI, free for everyone

The local mocker is MIT-licensed and stays that way. The Student plan covers the hosted side.

EU-hosted by default

GDPR-friendly, sims placed in the AWS region closest to you, no cross-border data surprises.

Same product as paying customers

No stripped-down student edition. You learn on the real thing. That's the point.

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