SAS is not friendly in this way. If your institution has a SAS site license, then you should be able to get a copy for very little. It might be possible to gain access to SAS on a mainframe by logging into your institutional account. I used SAS in this way form many years. Finally, there is a mini-SAS. It is called JMP, and there is a student version in some places. I would try contacting them directly. I would type in SAS.com into the browser. At the bottom of their home page is "Connect" followed by "Customer Support" and some other columns. In "Connect" choose "contact". When I click on that I get a list of address and phone numbers. I also get a pop-up for on-line help. Whatever your choice, I would ask for the name and number of my local SAS representative. You can then also ask about your options. Regardless of the answer, I would then contact the local representative to confirm everything. The parent company, or the local representative might get you the best deal.
A long time ago I tried to get a personal copy of SAS. When it was going to be over $600/year I gave up. JMP will give you some of the functionality of SAS, but it does not allow you to write programs in the same way that SAS does. JMP will do a large number of regular analyses, but if you want to write your own program to do a randomization test for comparing regression slopes between two populations, then you are out of luck. You can't program JMP in that way. That is where I abandoned JMP, and I haven't looked at the program in about 4 years. There are a large number of other statistical packages that are available. The first one that comes to mind is R. This is a free download, but I would only take this option if you can find someone who already knows R (even a little bit). Of course it would be possible to find a book "Introduction to R" or something like that. You could also check out desktop programs like Statistica, Minitab, and such. There are a large number of choices. If you find one, you could ask RG community what they thought of what you found. To get a better reply, you might also indicate what methods you were most likely to use.