Educational institutions and charitable organisations pay less. The academic plan gives you the competition and course features at a reduced price, and its quota can be adjusted to what your institution actually needs rather than to the shape of a published plan. The discount depends on the case and runs from 25% to 50% of the regular price.
It is not a plan you can pick from the grid. You ask for it, we look at the request, and once it is approved the plan appears among the ones your space can subscribe to.
Schools, universities and other educational institutions, and registered charities. What we need to know is who you are and what you intend to run — the institution, roughly how many students, and what you want the space for. A national olympiad, a university course and a coding club are all reasonable cases; they just get different quota.
The request goes through the plan grid:
Open Settings → Billing.
Click Upgrade, or Subscribe if the space has no plan yet.
Find the Academic card among the plans — "Looking to use Eolymp at your school or university? We offer special pricing and flexible plan quota for educational and charitable institutions."
Get in touch at hello@eolymp.com with the details of your institution.
We reply by email. Once your request is approved the academic plan is published to your space, the Academic card disappears from the grid — there is nothing left to ask for — and you subscribe to the plan the same way as any other. See Change your plan or seats.
If the Academic card is not in your grid, that is what it means: your space can already see an academic plan.
A request does not pause anything. If your space is on a trial, the trial still ends on its date, and if that is close, say so in your email. A space that goes inactive in the meantime loses nothing — subscribing later restores access.
The Custom card sits beside the academic one for exactly this: "Can't find a plan which fits your needs? Contact our team at hello@eolymp.com and we will find a configuration which works for you." A custom subscription is configured by hand and carries its own quota rather than a plan's — see How billing works for how one behaves.