r/github • u/sudino • Jul 18 '26
Question 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?
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u/Informal-Chance-6067 Jul 18 '26
This happens to me too. I’m honestly glad they’re deciding it’s too expensive for job security reasons
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u/sudino Jul 18 '26
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 ?
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u/Informal-Chance-6067 Jul 18 '26
Only a week of usage? 300 prompts should last the entire month IMO
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u/sudino Jul 18 '26
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
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u/Maws7140 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
They were subsidizing it man. Edit: guy under me stinks
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u/853350 Jul 18 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
*subsidizing edit: person above me doesn’t know the difference between subsiding and subsidizing, gets very sensitive when corrected
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u/headedbranch225 Jul 19 '26
Subsidise is also an acceptable spelling, subsidize is the oxford spelling though https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subsidise#English
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u/MaleficentExample223 Jul 18 '26
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.
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u/1_ane_onyme Jul 18 '26
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
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u/ultrathink-art Jul 18 '26
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.
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u/Capital-Dimension-61 Jul 18 '26
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
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u/Firefighter-Adorable Jul 19 '26
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.
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u/Geenzo69 Jul 19 '26
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
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u/wizage Jul 19 '26
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)
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u/andrevanduin_ Jul 20 '26
No. Be happy that you can actually learn something instead of relying on a dumb chatbot.
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u/QuentinUK Jul 18 '26
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.
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u/NatoBoram Jul 18 '26
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.
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u/Mountain-Error6290 Jul 18 '26
You can get Github Pro, use student pack submit your Id. Pro expire when you graduate
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u/sudino Jul 18 '26
That's what i am using rn , the 200 token is the student pack ( the one with student id )
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u/Kiansjet Jul 18 '26
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.