IDA Classroom Plans: Empowering Educators

IDA Classroom Plans are ideal for universities, engineering schools, and educational providers seeking to equip students with top-tier reverse engineering software. Two types of plans are available: the free-of-charge IDA Classroom plan and the 70% Classroom discount on standard IDA Pro plans. These plans can only be requested by educators, with individual students or researchers needing to contact their teaching staff. Educators must submit an application on behalf of their institution.

IDA Classroom Free

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The free-of-charge IDA Classroom licenses offer a robust version of the core IDA Pro features and are tailored to hardware platforms commonly used by students, i.e. Intel and ARM.

IDA Classroom features:
  • Named license
  • Support for x86, x64, ARM and ARM64 processors
  • x86, x64, ARM and ARM64 cloud decompilers
  • Local debugger for native platform and GDB Client
  • Extendable with IDAPython, IDC scripts and C++ SDK
  • No size limitation for input files

Classroom discount for IDA Pro

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Do you need the full power of IDA Pro for your classroom or education-related research work? If you are a recognized academic or trainer, you can apply for a substantial discount on your IDA Pro licenses, starting from 70% before volume discounts.

Frequently asked questions

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Who qualifies for Classroom plans?

PUBLIC ENROLLMENT: Classroom plans are exclusively available to academia, e.g., universities, technology institutes, engineering schools, and for-profit education providers, e.g., training centers and certification platforms, that enroll students publicly.

Private education providers, such as corporate training departments and military schools, are excluded from the Classroom program and advised to purchase IDA Pro plans instead.

Classroom plans are not directly available to individual students and/or researchers.

Students and/or researchers that wish to benefit from Classroom plans individually should contact their teaching staff for them to submit an application on behalf of the teaching institution.

RELEVANT FIELDS of STUDY: Classroom plans are only available to teaching staff for usage with their students during courses and/or research work that address disassembly, decompilation, debugging and/or de-obfuscation techniques, such as, but not limited to, cybersecurity, malware analysis, reverse engineering, program analysis, CPU design, compilers.

COUNTRY LIMITATIONS: Classroom plans may be unavailable in some countries depending on guidance or rules and regulations provided by — amongst others — the UN Security Council, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Council of the European Union, or if Hex-Rays is not in a position to examine application documents provided in the language of the applying organization.

For more information, inquire with classroom@hex-rays.com

Which fields of study and/or research are eligible for Classroom plans?

Classroom plans are only available to teaching staff for usage with their students during courses and/or research work that address disassembly, decompilation, debugging and/or de-obfuscation techniques, such as, but not limited to, cybersecurity, malware analysis, reverse engineering, program analysis, CPU design, compilers.

Hex-Rays reserves the right to deny Classroom plans if the information provided is deemed questionable or the courses provided do not justify using Hex-Rays products.

If you’d like to know if your course or field of research is eligible, please inquire with classroom@hex-rays.com

How to apply for a Classroom plan?

Please fill out the following form, and our sales team will contact you shortly to discuss your requirements.

Can individual students and/or researchers apply for Classroom plans?

Classroom plans are not directly available to individual students and/or researchers.

Students and/or researchers that wish to benefit from Classroom plans individually should contact their teaching staff for them to submit an application on behalf of the teaching institution.

If your university department does not wish to apply for Classroom plans for your field of study, we encourage you to use IDA Free instead; or alternatively connect with other teaching and/or research groups within your university that may potentially be eligible for Classroom plans.