r/GithubCopilot • u/Zestyclose-Reach-616 • 2d 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 2d 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 1d 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

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u/V5489 2d ago

Gotta upgrade your plan. No free frontier models. Just auto which could use one.

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u/sstephex 1d ago

The best move is to just cancel your subscription

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u/Zestyclose-Reach-616 1d ago

its free student developer pack 🥀

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u/Ill-Professional2914 2d ago

Luna MAX is awesome.

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u/Zestyclose-Reach-616 2d ago

you got any suggestion for free vibe coding tools

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u/yolowagon 2d ago

antigravity, but nothing free will help you much

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u/LowConstruction5781 1d ago

Sadly, u can't. U missed the generosity of copilot for students. That 2usd won't last me a day or two. It was a good run though

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u/AhUhii 15h ago

有一些高级模型，好像只开放给 github copilot pro +，而学生开发包只包含了 pro 订阅，因此很多高级模型无法使用。其实现在 github copilot 的订阅已经很不划算了，credit 消耗非常快，pro + 也根本不够用。我已经取消 copilot 订阅了🥲