AI tools for students

Every tool here is reviewed for one thing: whether a student can actually get value from it. Filter by category, cost or the task you need to get done.

11 tools

Language courses with feedback from a community of native speakers on written and spoken exercises

OpenAI's conversational AI assistant, used for explanation, drafting and brainstorming.

Claude

Studying Free plan

Anthropic's AI assistant, often used for working through long documents and detailed explanation.

Codeium

Coding Free plan

Free, fast AI autocomplete and chat for students who want a no-cost coding assistant

Cursor

Coding Free plan

AI-assisted coding in a full code editor built around chat and autocomplete

Gemini

Studying Free plan

Google's AI assistant, integrated with Google's own products.

AI pair programmer built into your editor that autocompletes code, explains unfamiliar codebases, and can run autonomous "agent mode" tasks across multiple files.

Vocabulary building through spaced repetition using clips of real native speakers

Writing, running, and getting AI help on code entirely in the browser with no setup

Tabnine

Coding Free plan

Privacy-conscious AI code completion that can run without sending code to the cloud