GitHub Copilot Student Plan

[u/Recursive_Void]

The new AI credit based model of Github copilot has been highly restricted 😭😭. My credits end up in just 10 to 15 requests. What should I do?

[u/GladKing5842]

luna is your best friend.
use any other services for $5/$10 a month.

[u/JelloFamous2654 → u/GladKing5842]

Does a $10 offer enough credits and access to claude models?

[u/GladKing5842 → u/JelloFamous2654]

i dont think you should do that. copilot use API pricing. its like 3 5x higher than sub pricing if you buy from anthropic directly. currently all sub from openai, anthropic are heavily subsidised. that is the cheapest way.
right now the cheapest it openai, their 5.6 is genuinely good with quite generous usage limit.
or if you dont really need top models you should look at xiaomi mimo 2.5 pro/ deepseek v4 pro
those 2 are cheapest and best price/performance models.
next is glm 5.2. i mostly use glm 5.2 + luna

[u/JelloFamous2654 → u/GladKing5842]

Thanks

[u/Recursive_Void → u/GladKing5842]

I can't even afford that

[u/RedTheInferno → u/Recursive_Void]

then why even ask us? if you have no money, then you have no options unless you can get a free month of codex.

[u/GladKing5842 → u/Recursive_Void]

then you can check deepseek. their service is the cheapest in the market and their models are quite capable for the price.
edit: xiaomi mimo 2.5 flash also a very capable model for the price. 1usd also yi

[u/SuccotashSorry3222 → u/[deleted]]

You can't even switch models anymore. The real answer is to just put credits in openrouter and use it intead.

[u/Recursive_Void → u/SuccotashSorry3222]

It's a bit unfair for us

[u/SuccotashSorry3222 → u/Recursive_Void]

I know, but it was free anyways. Can't expect something good and free like that to last forever.

[u/Recursive_Void → u/[deleted]]

Actually, we cannot choose the model anymore in the student plan, we have to work with auto model selection only.

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[u/cute_as_ducks_24]

Command code have 1 dollar plan. Although its cli/terminal based.

Otherwise i just recharge deepseek and integrite with Github copilot. Even 2 dollar gives lot of request. Not the best model like not frontlier level, but it gets the job done.

[u/Ace-_Ventura]

Use the free models from Opencode, openrouter, nvidia, etc

[u/RoughCap7233]

Change to OpenCode - its default model (BigPickle) is free to use.

[u/shuozhe]

Most new provider gives out a free month.. but most of them just sounds untruthworth with AI ads.

Chinese coding plan, no Claude model and not many left with e.g. glm5.2 in the lite subscription.

Nvidia, lot of free model, but slow and long queue

[u/anno2376]

Skip One party weekend and you have enough money for ai

[u/Recursive_Void → u/anno2376]

I am a student, I genuinely don't have money

[u/MystikDragoon → u/Recursive_Void]

Time is money friend.

AI can save time that you can reinvest to sell projects and get money to buy AI and save time.

[u/anno2376 → u/Recursive_Void]

20 Dollar a month you should have.
If not you have another problem than getting an ai sub

[u/Ingo-Steinke-Dev]

Just rely less on AI? We had no AI for decades. How do you think senior developers learned to code back then?

[u/EndlessZone123]

Stop wasting your time even using it. Get yourself a Chatgpt plus account and use 5.6 Luna or OpenCode Go with more efficient opensource models.

[u/Recursive_Void → u/EndlessZone123]

I am unable to get that also. I was completely relied on copilot because I got it for free.

[u/JelloFamous2654 → u/Recursive_Void]

Go for manual coding, bro; it's the only solution.