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Important Updates to GitHub Copilot for Students 🎒 #189268
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disappointed. |
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Im paying for claude! i want Claude! The auto selector is intern level unusable crap. I used 4$ of GPT request and 4 hour on a request Claude can do with oneshot. The quality of GPT is goint to turn students away from ai altogether, they wont learn anything. |
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I was working with Claude and it suddenly disappeared while the execution was going on... in auto mode sonnet was working but one easy prompt and it switched to 5.3 codex... turned my whole project to Ai written crap and it can't even figure out anything now context size is doubled but it's useless 5.3 way codex is worse then sonnet.... what's the point of it now |
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Im investegationg if Claude Coder is a cheaper and better option. 
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This is not the right way to do this. |
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very dissapointed |
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Downhill |
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Having Sonnet unavailable is not great. Is this just for students or teachers too? Also I hope this is not politics. |
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same |
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gitlab and codeberg but they both kinda suck so we have to stay in this monopoly. |
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why don't we start building one.! |
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Forgejos great! |
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no sonnet and opus??? 😭😭😭 |
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I am experiencing the same, no Opus 4.6 on the Pro plan. |
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Same here |
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Same, pro plan no opus |
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same, i changed to pro but sonnet still not appear |
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Sonnet is shit, the first time i used it for example config it generated 5 almost identical documentation files for no reason when I askked 1. Opus was 3x more credits for how much 10 - 20% more performance? 5.3 codex is basically the same thing as GPT 5.4 with 1x credits and does exactly what i ask it for. |
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Nothing will change except you cannot use the good models anymore... thanks. |
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@JohnDoeIsBack It was sarcastic |
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Everything is the same, you just have to pay the 10$ for Pro 😛 Ok, it feels ugly, I know. But maybe the best Option to finish an already begun project though. But since we are all developers, OpenSource might be the cheaper and better alternative in long term: |
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Copilot might be able to help you read comments and identify sarcasm |
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almost multi trillionaire company btw |
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Double it & give it to the next ai agrent. Thx. |
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There may be another solution. |
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Horrible change |
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Indeed |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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For sure, they would have atleast left sonnet 4.6 |
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Disappointed |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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Why all this corporate nonsense text? Just say you want to cut cost and thus remove the expensive models. |
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Incisive |
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When a company starts cutting costs to boost socalled "efficiency" , it is the death knell of its demise; healthy operations only bring more benefits to users. |
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up |
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It's Microsoft. They ruin everything they touch. |
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It even gets worse since they are divorced, you know what I mean 😇 |
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yes it is. atleast sonnet. yup bye bye github |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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Trillion dollar company like Microsoft couldn't possibly be so cheap on some college kids right? Cheap ass shareholder's company with zero social responsibility and commitment. |
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@martinwoodward Please reconsider this change. Many students relied specifically on models like Sonnet and Opus for studying, research, and solving complex programming problems. These models were the reason Copilot was so helpful for us. Without them, Copilot becomes far less useful for academic work. Most students cannot afford paid plans, so this change does not push us to upgrade it only pushes us away from using Copilot. We respectfully ask you to restore at least limited access to these models for students. |
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Bad system |
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common Microslop L |
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Keep advanced models, don't be greedy!! |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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sybau |
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@ghaif You have to understand there are verified educators here who are saying this. the fre eplan runs out the moment you graduate so I think its justified, plus there are so many more solutions like more rate limiting or day wise limiting or making the requests 10x instead of 1 x or 3x but gatekeeping the models, that just shows no cinsideration. We have to also remember that Microsoft & Github ensure that these same students who eventually join / start ocmpanies will take the familiarity of these tools with them. |
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it's not being greedy, it's about betraying us with no notice. Look at the recent changes made to Scratch. They changed their ToS to something very anti-user friendly and terrible. Scratch is completely free though, so we shouldn't be mad about something that's free, right? Is that what you're saying? Your family didn't have to raise you. They didn't have to feed you or care for you. So if your family stopped helping you ever at all without any notice, would you be sad? |
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As we are using Claude opus , but suddenly you removed . We need back as this is not mentioned you can remove |
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This is just greedy. |
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brody you're a grown ass man with a job, stop begging for free services |
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What? What's going on, why can he still use the student plan even though he has a job? Isn't this supposed to help us students??? |
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bro putting same replies for every comment @danividalg |
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bro he might be a teacher. Educational plan if for both students and teachers |
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Also, please do not make assumptions about people based on their age or how they look. Folks can be life long learners and go back to school at any time. |
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Is there still a chance that Sonnet and Opus gets selected by Auto? |
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you can use sonnet on other ides like open code through github student |
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@CrankyVase can you elaborate on that please? |
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@DhiaDjobbi yea no problem. So basically if you use somthing like open code app and connect it to copilot you can still chose sonnet and stuff. |
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how much usuage with opencode |
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Please shut the hell up and do your own research... Don't go and blurt this out. |
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disappointed |
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I completely disagree and am deeply disappointed with the decision to remove Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-4 from the models available in the Student plan. These are the models I use regularly and the ones that are truly useful. |
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Yes |
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This update made Claude completely useless. |
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yeah let's make an even bigger gap between huge research orgs and public ! yay! |
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I’m profoundly moved by the visionary decision to swap world-class AI for these digital fossils; clearly, Microsoft believes the best way to prepare us for a cutting-edge future is to ensure we enter the global arena trying to lead the digital revolution using a steam engine and a very long piece of string. |
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Microslop is back |
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I don't know how can they can take this step as they know these are the only models that people use and make best of their project very much disappointed |
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now we back to the era of time consume |
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To be honest, we're going backwards with this. |
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Please reconsider the decision or at least provide an experience for these models for 6 months rather than a year or provide any alternative solutions... It doesn't make sense for you to do that... A large and well-established company like Microsoft and has a reputation and many years of achievements and support... You should be up to this responsibility, especially towards the students... There are very small companies that offer such offers, so it is unreasonable to cancel it.... We know that there are many influences and things... But this is a big change, it has to be a middle change to be fair. |
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Very dissapointing, promising to provide students with access to latest industry AI tools and techs for growth and development, they just removed the opus 4.6, sonnet 4.6, gemini 3.1, gpt 5.4, from the student's pack, and adding it to premium prices for premium customers, totally disastrous and injustice to students like us, who don't have money to pay for such premium models or use them being a student at this level. This has hugely affected the productivity, and learning opportunities, and even learning and building projects. Previously Github was the best resource for students to provide this golden opportunity but, with this sudden change in their policies, they just smashed millions of dreams, and project goals and learning opportunities for students. Nowadays Antigravity is far better than this colpilot. Better switching to Antigravity is more superior to use as it offers a basic limited use for opus 4.6 and others. |
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So I upgraded to Copilot Pro (the immediately paid version, not the trial), and within a minute of taking payment my access to Copilot Pro was suspended by GitHub and "due to security reasons" they can't tell me why. I have used Copilot Pro (through Student first, now paid) for a while now, and have not changed my behaviour or gone beyond any rate limits. Anyone else finding themselves in the same position now? |
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Hello can someone tell me. If educator's account also attract these limitations or it's for only student tier. can teachers still use clause opus and sonnet? |
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It affects entire GitHub education pack ig |
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Not the right decision. CodeX with GPT is no where near ready to be used in a student environment. If students using Claude is to expensive for github, limits need to be put in place, not it being removed outright. |
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Hello, although it wasn't great, it was mandatory because this seems unsustainable for Microsoft to just give the most expensive model for free, I might be wrong though as I don't have the numbers for their revenue. For anyone who still wants to access these models, just go for the pro subscription (be careful not the trial, because the latest models are disabled there). First enable the trial subscription -> then press manage subscription -> start paid subscription. It's a fair price for the value that copilot gives. |
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it's NOT a fair price. the whole point is that we are broke students. Now it would only be not fair if some grown adult was leeching off the student subscription even though they're stacked in cash.... |
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The point I'm making is, if giving us students claude for free was unsaintable for the company. Reduce our usage of it, add limits. There is always ways around it rather than just removing it outright |
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The real problem is going from one extreme to another, from premium to no premium, when other solutions exist, as many comments suggest. Personally, I think only Claude is worth it, but if Microsoft really needs to reduce costs, why not look at the analytics and see if some premium models are not used that much and discard them? I highly doubt that anyone uses Gemini Pro, sorry if I'm mistaken or if I offend somebody by saying this of Gemini. |
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Yeah things like Gemini, codex can just go. I never ever used Gemini or codex since I gained my student benefits. And even then I rarely used Claude. After testing both Claude and codex gpt Claude is clearly superior. It actually teaches you, shows you where you're wrong that is what I liked about it. |
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I need Sonnet 4.6 to fix the bugs in my program!! You can’t just take away all the smart programming models like that! 😭 |
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@martinwoodward I may be missing part of the commercial logic here, but from a user’s perspective this seems like a missed long-term opportunity for GitHub. Giving students subsidised access to top-tier models could build strong future adoption, because once they become accustomed to higher-end tools, they’re less likely to want to move back to mid-tier options in industry and more likely to advocate for those tools in the workplace. |
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我昨晚也有一样的问题，但是现在已经恢复了。或许重启一下 vscode 或者换个代理会有效 |
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Clearly microsoft trying to make more money. Sad to see microslop slowly taking away our privileges. |
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Are you really going to ignore everyone here and not change a single thing? |
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Here's a question: Why? Is Github losing money? What is the problem here? You guys yourselves said millions of students are using it, and you're letting each and every one of them.
BAHAHAH. Sure. |
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Isn't that what slowing down literally means? 😆 |
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Incredibly disappointed and frustrated. Being unable to use Sonnet or Opus leaves almost no options for models within VSCode, and this means that it is impossible to get any work done. This feels more like a cheap cost-cutting move rather than $10 billion company. But who knows, maybe they'll listen to our feedback - but I doubt it. |
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"Microsoft" and "listening to user feedback" in the same sentence.. 💀 |
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To them, the "users" are actually the shareholders and investors. We aren't real |
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I used the existing models and they produce crap output. GPT-5.3 sucks and Gemini is not right there for coding. Please bring back Sonnet and Opus and rate limit it instead! Copilot is not usable at the moment and I'm planning to move to antigravity |
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Everyone listen up please!You can get access to claude Sonnet and Opus 4.6 by using Google Antigravity. Don't use this sh*t anymore. |
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At GitHub, we believe the next generation of developers should have access to the latest industry technology. That’s why we provide students with free access to the GitHub Student Developer Pack, run the Campus Experts program to help student leaders build tech communities, and partner with Major League Hacking (MLH) and Hack Club to support student hackathons and youth-led coding communities. It’s also why we offer verified students free access to GitHub Copilot—today, nearly two million students are using it to build, learn, and explore new ideas.
Copilot is evolving quickly, with new capabilities, models, and experiences shipping fast. As Copilot evolves and the student community continues to grow, we need to make some adjustments to ensure we can provide sustainable, long-term GitHub Copilot access to students worldwide.
Our commitment to providing free access to GitHub Copilot for verified students is not changing. What is changing is how Copilot is packaged and managed for students.
What this means for you
Starting today, March 12, 2026, your complimentary Copilot access will be managed under a new GitHub Copilot Student plan, alongside your existing GitHub Education benefits. Your academic verification status will not change, and there is nothing you need to do to continue using Copilot. You will see that you are on the GitHub Copilot Student plan in the UI, and your existing premium request unit (PRU) entitlements will remain unchanged.
As part of this transition, however, some premium models, including GPT-5.4, and Claude Opus and Sonnet models, will no longer be available for self-selection under the GitHub Copilot Student Plan. We know this will be disappointing, but we’re making this change so we can keep Copilot free and accessible for millions of students around the world.
That said, through Auto mode, you'll continue to have access to a powerful set of models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. We'll keep adding new models and expanding the intelligence in Auto mode that helps match the right model to your task and workflow. We support a global community of students across thousands of universities and dozens of time zones, so we’re being intentional about how we roll out changes. Over the coming weeks, we will be making additional adjustments to available models or usage limits on certain features — the specifics of which we'll be testing with your feedback.
We want your input
Your experience matters to us, and your feedback will directly shape how this plan evolves. Leave a comment below, what's working for you, what gets in the way, and what you need most. We will also be continuing to host 1:1 conversations with students, educators, and Campus Experts, and using insights from our recent November 2025 student survey to help inform what's next.
GitHub's investment in students is not slowing down. We are committed to ensuring that Copilot remains a powerful, free tool for verified students, and we will continue to improve and expand the student experience over time.
We will share updates as we learn more from testing and your feedback. Thank you for building with us.
Update March 13: We've now added the option so folks can upgrade from your GitHub Copilot Student plan to a paid GitHub Copilot Pro or GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan if you want to, while retaining the rest of your GitHub Student Pack benefits.
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