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Important Updates to GitHub Copilot for Students 🎒 #189268
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disappointed. |
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Why? I mean it had work over the Github Student Developer Pack? Why they are stealing us AI Models? |
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Does the student section show me how to start a new SSH for localhost and pull request reviews |
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Not a good sign for students |
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shame of you |
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All the labs are complicit in the killing of innocent people in one way or another. There is no moral high ground here. |
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Downhill |
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Because the copilot product owner is also a selfish pr*ck like you! |
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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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no sonnet and opus??? 😭😭😭 |
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i am in deep mourning |
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How is that possible? Can you please show us how. |
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Today 16/03/2026 Pro version not have Opus & Sonnet ??!! |
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hi @samus-aran I am having the same issue where Pro version does not have Opus 4.6, and GPT-5.4 |
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I am experiencing the same, no Opus 4.6 on the Pro plan. |
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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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that's an insane statement, it's a free service brody, you're the one being 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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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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Hi, And frankly, I'd prefer that others be removed and that Opus and Sonnet return, even in earlier versions (4.5) with a higher credit cost. What do you think? Wouldn't that be a solution? |
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So disappointing. |
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I know Opus and sonnet were the reason we used Gihub Copilot but 5.3 codex is not so bad atleast for me it is good and just buy claude code 20$ plan and then use it like a secondary copilot priimary shoudl be codex at least we are getting codex tho still im gonna hate github for doing this |
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Bro, Codex sucks! I don't know what you got out of it. I used Auto and it always picks the Codex. |
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I'm on a paid GitHub Copilot Pro plan (not a student) and I'm experiencing the same issue - Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, and GPT-5.4 are no longer available in my model picker as of today, March 16. Nothing has changed on my end. This is a paid subscription and I expect access to the models I'm paying for. Please investigate and fix this as soon as possible. |
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me too !!!! |
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me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Me Too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Really bad!!!! Disappointed 👎 :( |
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Even when we update from student to pro we don't have opus and sonnet ! please fix that even not possible to choose our plan (student or pro) on the github setting? why? |
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I've encountered the same thing! Copilot is really digging its own grave. |
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so true |
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buy the 39$ one they are very clever they are not giving options |
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@mukulyadav23 wdym, is Pro+ required to get opus and sonnet? |
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idk wait for some time because I see recent complaints from not student pro accounts users that they are also not able to see those models + after they updated the student plan I see that on the plan purchasing page they mention opus and sonnet specifically on the pro+ plan but on pro plan it's just anthropic models as they updated in students plan I think they are removing it from pro too. Or it might be a temporary glitch. |
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This was the cherry 🍒 on the cake top to make me leave Copilot. Even if I was OK to have failures in Agent mode, deleting files automatically without my approval and bad responses without proper context awareness (even though files were tagged when describing the requests), the decision to QUIT using Copilot is now easier than ever. |
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Me too, same words |
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The worst part: It always uses GPT on Auto (I didn't see Claude Sonnet/Opus) |
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I am writing to express my deep frustration and disappointment regarding an issue I recently encountered with the Copilot Pro trial. After losing access to several top-tier models that I had been relying on for my development and research work including Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-5.4 I decided to try the Copilot Pro trial to continue my work without interruption. The trial appeared to activate successfully on my device, and I began using it as expected. However, later that night I started experiencing problems while using the service. At the time, I assumed the issue was related to network instability or temporary rate limiting because I was actively working with Opus 4.6 through both the CLI and VS Code. I did not initially suspect any problem with the trial itself. When I checked again the following day, I discovered that my trial had already been terminated. This was extremely confusing because the trial had barely begun and I had not violated any terms to my knowledge. Since I was in the middle of very serious work that required these tools, I attempted to resolve the issue immediately by purchasing the Copilot Pro subscription. Unfortunately, my payment attempt was blocked with a notice indicating that payments were restricted for 48 hours. This created an unexpected delay at a time when I urgently needed access. In an effort to continue my work without disruption, I tried activating Copilot using another account. Surprisingly, the exact same situation occurred again: the trial appeared to end almost immediately after activation, even before I had a meaningful chance to use it. During this process of attempting to verify and resolve the issue, I incurred approximately $10 in POS charges while trying different payment attempts. While the financial amount itself is not large, the situation has been frustrating and confusing, especially given the urgency of my work. At this point, I genuinely do not understand why these restrictions were applied or why the trials ended prematurely. I would sincerely appreciate clarification regarding what triggered this behavior and whether there is a way to resolve the issue so I can continue using Copilot without further interruptions. I have been relying on GitHub’s ecosystem for serious development work, and I would strongly prefer to continue using the platform. However, experiences like this make it difficult to depend on the service when access can suddenly disappear without explanation. My simple question is: is this behavior expected, or is there some issue with my account or device that needs to be resolved? I would appreciate your help in understanding what happened and how this situation can be fixed. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter. |
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As of 16th of March, I am experiencing having to "contact my administrator" to access the following models on my individual Pro plan, which does not make any sense at all. 
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I have the same problem |
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same here. |
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Same problem, sonnet/opus 4.6 disappeared from my pro plan. |
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Now I can't connect to the copilot server. Maybe it's just a server malfunction, or they have rolled out some updates |
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same... i am on pro trial now. never was on student plan |
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I guess I’ll be the voice of reason here…disappointed but, it is a change that I understand. power consumption with these things don’t come cheap, and at some point the cost of these things will outweigh the revenue, like it or not. I’ve been bracing for this for a while. just that it came around the time I’m expecting it to. it’s fair for us as students to lean on free things, when its taken away, understandably we're upset. I just hope that more of my peers do enough research to see the other side of what’s needed to run AI to understand this change. with that said, a question: if you have a subscription somewhere with another model provider (i.e. OpenAI/ChatGPT Pro) there a chance you can link that subscription with copilot to use the other premium models? or is this not an option? |
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Yes all the people crying about greediness etc don't seem to understand that ... |
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I wouldn’t personally call them greedy (partly because i’ll be a part of that lol), but having student pricing or benefits is nice when we have to deal with cost of living. |
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everyone was laughing at us students just for using this for free now the pro users also facing the same and some pro+ users are frustrated too. I think they have downgraded the pro version too |
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Disappointed |
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This is somewhat tangential, but thinking long-term: for the sake of future flexibility, extensibility, and to avoid being held hostage by the cost-cutting strategies of Microsoft or any other tech giant, I believe that purchasing model APIs directly and plugging them into IDE integration tools like Copilot or Claude Code is a much better approach than simply relying on their subscription plans. |
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Even if I don’t use too many tokens with Opus or Sonnet, most of the time I don’t even hit 50% of the tokens. I was actually expecting something like this because companies are ugly, especially Microsoft. We think they help students and want our community to become more powerful, but Microsoft is Microsoft — a company that mostly looks at making money. They don’t really look at you. If you see them helping you, you should be aware that they will probably take more from you in the future than what they give now. |
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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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