Benchy for education

A private place
for your class to make.

Pupils design, model and print with the same tools as everyone else, in a classroom their teacher runs. There is no cost for a verified classroom.

What every classroom includes

40 pupils and 2 staff, counting the teacher who opens it.
No pupil accounts. A pupil joins with a class code and a nickname — no email address, no password, nothing to recover.
No seat fees for pupils or staff. The editor seats a commercial workspace buys do not apply to a classroom.
Drafts stay private. A pupil’s unshared work is not in the teacher’s review feed and is left out of an institutional export.
A closing date you set, up to a year out. After it nobody can open the class or its work, including you.

$0 Always free

A free account’s weekly usage for the whole class, resetting every 7 days.

50 GiB of project storage.

$40 USD / month, or $400 a year

2.2× the weekly usage of Benchy Pro, for a class that generates every lesson.

100 GiB of project storage.

Cancelling returns the class to the free verified terms. Its work stays.

Apply — a person reviews every classroom. You give your school, your teaching role, and who at the school authorises pupils to use Benchy.
A member of Benchy staff reads it and either approves the classroom with an expiry date or writes back asking for more. There is no automatic check and no .edu shortcut.
Then the class code works. Pupils join with it; nobody can join before the approval, and the approval has to be renewed when it expires.

You will need a Benchy account for the teacher. Pupils do not.