Free Prompt Engineering Courses
17 free courses from 9 providers. No payment required.
Free prompt engineering courses covering chain-of-thought prompting, few-shot learning, system prompts, and LLM best practices.
All Free Prompt Engineering Courses

ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
DeepLearning.AI

Building Systems with the ChatGPT API
DeepLearning.AI

Pair Programming with a Large Language Model
DeepLearning.AI
Deep Multi-Task and Meta Learning
Stanford Online
Introduction to Generative AI Learning Path
Google Cloud
Generative AI for Beginners
Microsoft
Generative AI Concepts
DataCamp

Microsoft Copilot Foundations
Microsoft Learn

Prompt Engineering with Llama 2 & 3
DeepLearning.AI
Introduction to Generative AI Studio
Google Cloud
Building with the Claude API
Anthropic
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
Anthropic
Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
Anthropic
LLM University (LLMU)
Cohere
Agents and Workflows (OpenAI Academy)
OpenAI
AI Foundations (OpenAI Academy)
OpenAI
Applied AI Foundations (OpenAI Academy)
OpenAI
Free Prompt Engineering Courses with Certificates
Learn prompt engineering for free and earn a certificate you can add to your resume.
Introduction to Generative AI Learning Path
Google Cloud
Generative AI Concepts
DataCamp

Microsoft Copilot Foundations
Microsoft Learn
Introduction to Generative AI Studio
Google Cloud
Building with the Claude API
Anthropic
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
Anthropic
Agents and Workflows (OpenAI Academy)
OpenAI
AI Foundations (OpenAI Academy)
OpenAI
Applied AI Foundations (OpenAI Academy)
OpenAI
Why Learn Prompt Engineering for Free?
Many of the best prompt engineering courses are offered free by top universities and companies.
Free courses let you explore prompt engineering before committing to a paid specialization.
The quality of free prompt engineering education has never been higher — many courses match university curricula.
You can learn at your own pace without pressure from subscription deadlines.
9 of these free courses offer certificates you can add to your resume.