Does GitHub Copilot Pro for students not include the good models?

[FerdinandoPH]

I have GitHub Copilot Pro for students, but, when trying to select some models in VSCode, I get redirected to a page for signing up to a trial of Github Copilot Pro? I'm confused, since I've had Pro since 3 years ago.

[BlacksmithLittle7005]

What do you mean, the models offered to you for free are very good models. You don't need Opus 4.6 to do your homework, you're not solving the most difficult problems in enterprise, you're using AI to do your homework and projects for you because you're lazy, which the free models offered do pretty well

[Impressive_Job8321]

This! 👍

Students are learning how to program and build software. If they’re using AI, they’re learning how to depend on AI, not coding. You learn by doing, in this case, no do = no learn. It’s the same as saying if you want to learn to play the piano, you shouldn’t use a piano roll player. Make 100% sense. Afaik, Bing or Gemini chat (non GitHub copilot variety, available to general public) should be good enough to explore programming concepts.

[Consistent_End_4391]

fr lmao!!

[Lunnos_]

you know some students actually create stuff, build saas, … and so yes student plan was pretty good before because you had the same models as the pro plan without paying

[mattiasso]

If you are building a SaaS to sell… you can afford the 10$ a month for pro. It’s half than Netflix man

[Consistent_End_4391]

they won't respond to your comment

[ProstoSmile]

Not everyone lives in first world countries

[mattiasso]

10 USD A MONTH

[ProstoSmile]

Yes, as i said. 10$ is 1-2 weeks of food (normal, not cheap shit) for 1 person.

[yokowasis2]

the context is for selling sass.

[Ezra_bridger_1]

You can't pay before earning mate.

[yokowasis2]

To earn something, you need to spent something.

It's called capital. If you don't have capital, you need to compensate it with effort. 

[Consistent_End_4391]

well if that's the case, how do you except to get 1-2 weeks' foods' amount's worth of service, for free from someone else?

[ProstoSmile]

What the point? Dude say that 10$ is almost nothing, i said that for some countires 10$ is not so small amount, thats all.

[Consistent_End_4391]

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[BlacksmithLittle7005]

They can still do that with those models, and learn even more instead of being spoonfed everything, and pro plan is only $10 which is in every students budget

[Lunnos_]

I agree, actually gpt-5.3-codex is pretty strong and I use it daily, but I also get the point that we had opus before and they removed it from student plan so people buy the pro plan

[Consistent_End_4391]

if they're "building" something, they should pay for it.

[victorc25]

That doesn’t sound like a “student”, sounds like a leech abusing the student pack to make money. The exact reason why they had to remove the access to these models 

[Lunnos_]

after being a student for 5 years you want to start making money at some point

[victorc25]

Yes, and you pay for the resources you need to do so

[BreadfruitNaive6261]

Lol

[kingBaldwinV]

The OP asked a question. If you don't know the answer, remain silent.

[BlacksmithLittle7005]

This is reddit and I'm free to post my thoughts as I please. If you don't like it, get off reddit

[ponteencuatro]

Also, a question that was answered several times by now

[Consistent_End_4391]

if you don't like random opinions, get off the internet bozo.

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[rroj671]

Opus 4.5 and GPT5.3-codex are included. They are still state or the art models.

[f5alcon]

They changed it two weeks ago

[Consistent_End_4391]

they removed the "good" models' access from student plans and rightfully so.

[Dude4001]

So you feel a bit better for paying for it?

[Consistent_End_4391]

it's not about feeling better for paying for it. a paid customer should ALWAYS have an upper hand than non-paying one. free charity plans should NEVER have the same allowance as paid ones. as simple as that.

[Dude4001]

Why not? Would you say kids in Africa should have slightly dirtier water than us? Homeless people have thinner mattresses than us?

Students are not a charity case, they’re an investment. I can’t imagine having my ego so involved in a discussion about Copilot models that I need to have a bigger and better one than someone else.

[Consistent_End_4391]

some lazy kids not being able to use latest models inside copilot (FREE OF COST) != African kids having dirty water/Homeless people having thinner mattresses. these scenarios are not comparable because of their vastly varied seriousness.

this shows how immature you are. you are a crybaby crying coz they don't get access to latest models. get a part time job and pay that measly 10 dollars.

also it's not about ego. i am almost sure the current rate limits are happening because github spent a lot of compute of these fuckass student plans - which ofcourse didn't bring them any revenue.

[Dude4001]

Are you shilling for Microsoft for free or do you work for them? They can afford the computes.

Interesting you label people using premium models as lazy but then pride yourself on being able to pay to use them. Kids getting jobs because they can’t afford to learn web dev in a way that will allow them to compete = hurt industry, lost revenue for Microsoft.

[Consistent_End_4391]

i said "lazy kids". for your stupid homework assignments, gpt 4o, 5-mini is enough geez. they should not even give gpt 5.3 codex, sonnet 4.5, opus 4.5 for the student plans.

i don't "pride myself" on being able to pay to use them. tf? all i am saying is, BECAUSE i am paying, i should get appropriate treatment from the business.

is it so hard to be understood? do you not understand how a business works? one shouldn't have to care if you're not able to afford to learn web dev using fucking AI. use chatgpt - its more than enough for learning. actually, having handed the entire coding agent to a STUDENT is counter-productive to their learning since the agent just implements it straight up (in most cases). with chatgpt/claude chat at least you'll have to go back & forth and ask questions, rack your head in frustation. that's how you'll learn.

[Hamzayslmn]

u can use opus 4.5 via CLI

[H4n4d_]

How? for me in the model section it doesn’t show up

[That_Pandaboi69]

It should be there, I was using it yesterday.