"Copilot Pro" DOES NOT include Sonnet or Opus. Only "Copilot Pro+" does
To all the people saying "oh, then just take $10 and pay for it" (and I've heard many): It's not the students that got neutered, but the entire Pro plan. I found it through this article: https://blog.kolja-nolte.com/thoughts/github-copilot-pro-student-plan/
But you can also see it right away when you look at their plans:
https://github.com/features/copilot/plans
Pro vaguely lists "300 premium requests to use latest models" and "Access to models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and more"
Compare this to Pro+ wording:
> Access to all models, including Claude Opus 4.6 and more
Students who plan to pay the $10 and go to Pro should know this. I've read very little about this on this subreddit, and surprisingly little on the GitHub discussions page.
Posted Mar 14, 2026, 7:20 AM UTC