The Guardian student discount
News & MediaDiscountsVia a student platform
Worth knowing: You'll confirm you're a student through a third-party verification partner to unlock this one, rather than through a code on the brand's own site. We're re-checking this deal right now. The details below are our latest research but may have changed — treat it as a lead, not a promise.
Free to read online (reader-supported); optional verified-student all-access digital plan at ~£9/$10 per year
- How much
- £0 to read online; £9/yr (UK) or $10/yr (US) for the student all-access plan
- How to claim
- Read free online with no signup
- OR go to the Guardian student offer page, verify student status (a student-verification platform in UK), and subscribe to the all-access plan
- Verification
- Via a student platform — Free reading requires no verification. The paid student plan is limited to verified full-time students 18+ (a student-verification platform in UK); a US education-store variant also exists.
- Freshness
- Verified Jul 13, 2026
- Where
- Worldwide
- Expires
- No end date listed — ongoing
The details
The Guardian's core value prop is that its journalism is free to read online with no hard paywall — reader-supported via voluntary contributions. Separately, it launched a discounted all-access digital student plan: verified students pay roughly £9/year (UK) or $10/year (US) for the Guardian news app (ad-free/premium), the Feast recipe app, weekly newsletters and puzzles. The one-year term reportedly does not auto-renew.