GitHub Silently Removes Premium AI Models from Free Student Copilot Plan
Students using GitHub Copilot’s free student plan woke up this week to a familiar and frustrating experience in the AI industry: their tools quietly got worse without any warning. GitHub has removed GPT-5.4, Claude Opus, and Claude Sonnet from its free Student plan — discovered not through an announcement, but by students mid-session finding their model selections grayed out or unavailable. What Changed The GitHub free Student Copilot plan previously offered access to premium models including GPT-5.4 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus and Sonnet alongside the standard model options. Those models have now been removed. ...