We help educators, students, and staff learn and teach on open source platforms
Posit gives you free, open-source products for R and Python that meet the needs of everyone involved in education. We offer a free plan for Posit Cloud with 25 project hours per month that can meet the needs of students. We also provide a free shinyapps.io account for up to 5 Shiny applications and 25 active hours per month.
For instructors and students who need more project hours or compute resources Posit Cloud offers discounted individual self-service paid plans and customized organization plans for qualified academic institutions who want to enable many people to teach, learn, or do research.
Teaching
Instructors
Free
Annual Subscription
Eligible with a qualified academic institution email address
Research
Instructors, Researchers or Staff
25% off
Annual Subscription
Eligible with a qualified academic institution email address
Posit Workbench
Posit Workbench is designed to support a team of data scientists as it scales, giving each individual data scientist more compute power.
Posit Connect
Posit Connect helps you publish all of your team’s data products at the push of a button. Deliver key insights to decision-makers, at the right time, in the right format.
Posit Package Manager
Posit Package Manager is a repository management server to organize and centralize packages across your team, department, or entire organization.
Requirements
Posit offers academic pricing options for academic institutions doing research who prefer to install Posit commercial products on their own servers. Contact us to learn more.
Frequently asked questions
How can I start using Posit's products for teaching purposes?
Just reach out to our sales team using the button at the top of this page labeled "Explore Academic Pricing." You'll be routed to a Posit expert who can get you started.
What do I need to provide to obtain academic pricing for teaching purposes?
We will ask for a course syllabus and potentially a few other teaching credentials including a qualified academic institution email address.
What is Posit Cloud?
Posit Cloud is an exceptionally good tool for universities and instructors. Posit Cloud is a lightweight, cloud-based solution that allows anyone to do, share, teach and learn data science online. We offer it to individuals for free and universities at an incredibly affordable rate.
Interested in using Posit for academic purposes?
We'd love to learn more about your instructional or research goals and explore how you can take full advantage of our professional toolchain.