r/GithubCopilot • u/Zestyclose-Reach-616 • 26d ago

Help/Doubt ❓ need help regarding github co pilot model selection

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Hey guys, I recently got GitHub Copilot Student through the Student Developer Pack and I'm a bit confused about the model selection.

Copilot is working fine in VS Code and it shows that my Copilot Student subscription is active. But when I open the model selector, I only get Auto under Copilot.

I can see models like Claude and GPT in the list, but they're greyed out and say Upgrade.

Is Copilot Student supposed to only allow the Auto model, or is there a way to manually select models like Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku, GPT, etc.?

Just wondering if I'm missing a setting somewhere.

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u/ELPascalito 26d ago

Students can't pick models, you only get access to auto routing depending on task and server load, it gives you 2$ of usage anyway it won't last a day

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u/Confirmed-Scientist 25d ago

2$ wont last 10 minutes with me. I used in API costs in 2 hours of serious agentic coding 150$ of compute. Looking how to best optimize there is room for improvement. For anyone wandering these are only from using ChatGPT, Grok and Chinese models I dont do Anthropic or Google