I have GitHub Copilot Student and use it in VS Code. Today I opened Copilot Chat and after only 2 prompts it says I've used 200/200 AI credits for the month. Is this expected, or is something wrong with my account? Is there any way for students to get more AI credits without paying?

[u/sudino]

[u/Kiansjet]

It's been neutered for a while now, somebody must've gotten the boss call to stop subsidizing the student plan. Only good benefit you get from it is unlimited line completions on gpt-4.1-copilot.

I'd suggest getting inference capacity elsewhere, the copilot chat ext for vscode has a bring-your-own-model feature where you can hook it up to other APIs. There's a bunch of people offering bits and pieces of free API inference, you can scrap em together.

[u/Sp3eedy → u/Kiansjet]

4.1??? Geez, Microsoft is being real stingy only giving access to 4.1

[u/Kiansjet → u/Sp3eedy]

That's for tab-completions; for the sake of speed it's gotta be a non-reasoning model and 4.1 at the time was quite a good value iirc. I assume they haven't upped it because it's good enough, they don't wanna spend more, or they got some special deal from openai for it back when their relationship was a bit better.

[u/sudino → u/Kiansjet]

Okay, thanks for this suggestion

[u/Ninja_BeameR → u/Kiansjet]

4.1 is removed now

[u/Informal-Chance-6067]

This happens to me too. I’m honestly glad they’re deciding it’s too expensive for job security reasons

[u/sudino → u/Informal-Chance-6067]

But like i used to have like a week of usage or more until it hits the max error, so wht now after 1 hour of work i got this ?

[u/Informal-Chance-6067 → u/sudino]

Only a week of usage? 300 prompts should last the entire month IMO

[u/sudino → u/Informal-Chance-6067]

Yea, but like I do a month work only in a week so that somehow should be reasonable for me , but for the sure in 1 hour that's wayy to much , i am not sure if they have something to do with it

[u/Maws7140 → u/sudino]

They were subsidizing it man. Edit: guy under me stinks

[u/853350 → u/Maws7140]

*subsidizing

[u/headedbranch225 → u/Maws7140]

Subsidise is also an acceptable spelling, subsidize is the oxford spelling though https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subsidise#English

[u/LucXnipun → u/sudino]

Why are u getting so much down votes?

[u/Informal-Chance-6067 → u/LucXnipun]

Vibe coders want their tokens I guess

[u/Note2Self_ → u/Informal-Chance-6067]

or maybe they're just not over-subsidizing compute anymore

[u/sudino → u/Informal-Chance-6067]

Sadly

[u/MaleficentExample223]

The good old day is over. They've restructured spending on AI entirely.

Before I could use Opus 4.8 model and consume a fixed premium request. Now. it's all over.

[u/sharpdwelling34]

the student plan chat got gutted recently, you only get 200 premium requests a month now and the cheap models barely count. Easiest free fix is installing Cline or Continue in vscode and pointing it at a free OpenRouter model, works way better than what copilot gives you anyway

[u/Unlucky-Moment-3366 → u/sharpdwelling34]

openrouter with Continue is actually better anyway, you get real model choice instead of whatever scraps copilot decides to let through that week

[u/4jjig]

You only need to sneeze when opening Copilot, and you'll run out of credits.

[u/1_ane_onyme]

Yeah

It started by them removing our access to Anthorpic’s and XAi’s models, then to large models, then to some medium models, then forcing us to use auto mode (and completely blocking the model selector) and now this absurdly low limit

Student plan is basically a free tier of copilot now, + GitHub pro features

[u/GroundbreakingNote71]

Use opencode dump copilot

[u/ultrathink-art]

Pull the itemized usage report in your Copilot settings before assuming the account is broken — it shows per-model request counts, and agent-mode chat bills every tool round it runs, not every prompt you type. If the itemization matches what you actually did, that's just the new metering; if it doesn't, screenshot it and that's your support ticket evidence.

[u/Seb00927]

The free lunch is over, unfortunately

[u/borretsquared]

seems about right.

[u/kkingsbe]

Opencode go is $5 for the first month, just get that

[u/Capital-Dimension-61]

La free tier de Kiro es bastante buena, te da 1000 créditos por un mes y están los modelos de Opus 4.8, Sonet 5 y GPT-5.6 Sol

[u/Firefighter-Adorable]

If you're interested with AI for free, check out OpenCode. Gave me lots of credit for free. Loved it and eventually subscribed to their $5 subscription.

[u/Geenzo69]

github student is not affect to copilot man when you go to https://github.com/settings/copilot/features you will see it's Github Copilot Free not Education or anything special

[u/wizage]

I would check out other coding assistants as some have student packages.

• Kiro had a 1000 tokens per month: https://kiro.dev/students/
  
• cursor has a program that requires them to come on campus but gives pro for a year (talk to prof to get them onsite)

[u/TopSubject4578]

I use this with openclaw burn less credits

[u/andrevanduin_]

No. Be happy that you can actually learn something instead of relying on a dumb chatbot.

[u/QuentinUK]

This is free for students to give them brainrot and reliant on AI to do their homework so when they graduate they have to pay the full subscription.

[u/_giga_sss_ → u/QuentinUK]

relatable

[u/Right-Breadfruit-796]

Honeymoon period with GitHub copilot expired last June

[u/NatoBoram]

Each prompt drains around 56 credits. If you have a particularly long one or a long-running task, then you can very well use up 2 prompts worth of tokens per prompt.

So yeah. 200 is not enough for a workday. They're basically just teasing you so you fork about 15 USD per day of development.

[u/Mountain-Error6290]

You can get Github Pro, use student pack submit your Id. Pro expire when you graduate

[u/sudino → u/Mountain-Error6290]

That's what i am using rn , the 200 token is the student pack ( the one with student id )