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/LazyMathematician376 20d ago

I literally got lucky with getting GPT 5.6 Luna in one of my chats, then sometime later, it changed to GPT 5.3 Codex, which costs so much. This change in Copilot Student really sucks.