Hi everyone,

I'm also facing the same issue as many students here. I'm a verified GitHub Copilot Student plan user, and my entire 200 AI credits were exhausted on June 1, 2026 — the very first day of the new billing cycle — after just 4–5 chat requests in VS Code.

My situation:

• Plan: Copilot Student (free, verified student)
• Credits used: 200/200 (100% on Day 1)
• Requests made: Only 4–5 chat messages in VS Code
• Models used: Auto (which routed to Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-3.5-Codex)
• Credits reset: July 1, 2026

The problem:
Before June 1, I regularly made 20–25+ requests per day without ever hitting any limit. The old request-based system worked fine for my student workload. Now, under the new credit-based billing system, just 4–5 chat messages drained my entire monthly allowance in minutes.

My concern:
The Copilot Student plan is supposed to support students who rely on it for learning and academic projects. A monthly budget of 200 credits ($2.00) is simply not enough for any meaningful development work under the new token-based billing model. This change has effectively made the Student plan unusable from day one of each billing cycle.

I understand GitHub needs to manage costs, but this is a significant downgrade from what students were promised when they signed up. Many of us depend on this tool for coursework and personal projects.

Request:
Please either increase the monthly AI credit allowance for verified students, or provide a lightweight model option that doesn't drain credits so quickly.

Thank you for looking into this.

same issue here,, i used copilot extensively past month and that wasnot even near 20% usage,, but today all 100% went out in 4 hrs

same issue with everyone as per the new credit system

I am Copilot Agentic Heavy User, and surprisingly with too much use, I barely cant cross 50% in previous Month quota as due to Session and Weekly Limits, and just as it reset today, on 1 single run it took 80.6 credits and in next 2 run, its over in that single chat!

So maybe the Credit System is not correctly rolled out or AI is excessively using too much credits ( but it use to do same task previously without any issue )

Kindly look into this Issue as it will become merely Copilot Student Plan without any actual outcome, if only for 15min work whole monthly credits will be used up !

Yes, exact same issue here as well. What are the chances of them increasing credits???

Happened with me as well. Doesn't make much sense to have that limited number of credits. Hopefully is a bug they're gonna fix, if intended, well, thanks for the ride.

Same issue here, around 10-15 agent requests completely wiped my monthly credits, which never happened in previous months
Must be a bug, otherwise we're cooked chat

I'm more so curious as to why we don't get the pro plan limits, even though that's what we used to get. I don't see anything saying we shouldn't, so why don't we get the 10 dollars of usage?

Same here. Same problem.

Verified student. Yesterday (May 31) everything worked fine. Today, June 1, after the credit reset – within less than 10 simple chat requests, my entire 200 credits were gone.

I'm going to be honest: I'm really angry.

Not because I expect something for nothing, but because GitHub changed the Student plan overnight – drastically for the worse – without clear warning and without giving us any choice. What used to easily last a full month is now exhausted after 15 minutes of development on the very first day of the month.

That's not "student support" anymore. That's a demo.

Either the credit calculation is broken (then fix it immediately), or GitHub has intentionally made the Student plan useless. Both are unacceptable.

My clear demand:

Immediately investigate the credit metering

Significantly increase the monthly allowance for students (at least to the level of the old request-based system)

This is not okay.

Same issue here -- I must have been using 400 credits per day in the past months, because I hardly got through half of a working session today before my credits were completely exhausted (and this is day 1!).

Same issue as everyone else. In a single day, burned through most of my AI Credits. As an additional note, 200 AI Credits are the same as what the Free tier has, meaning the only benefit you now get from the Student package is the unlimited inline completions.

This is a disgusting turn from GitHub saying "Students are our future". Burned through all my limit in 1 prompt, making a 25 line edit to python code.

We don't have time to deal with this kind of troublemaker behavior, whether it's a not cautious, gradual rollout strategy, a business strategy to attract subscribers with low pricing and then suddenly impose unreasonable increases, or simply greed with little regard for how subscribers feel.

Raising prices isn't the problem. Companies do that all the time. The problem is the way it was done. This rollout feels abrupt and heavy-handed.

If GitHub doesn't address the issue today, just unsubscribe from Copilot and switch directly to Claude or Codex.

Has anyone found a solution for this? It's clear that this is now a common bug with student accounts

Yeah I'm seeing the same issue, I have a paid plan and used all 1,500 credits in a single day, before I could hardly use my requests over the course of a whole month. It use to be about $0.03 per requests but if you are getting 4 requests for $2 this would mean they have increased the cost to $0.50 per request or increased the cost of their service by ~16x with this new pricing model, which effectively makes their service prohibitively expensive.

I don’t think applying for the so-called student plan is a good idea under the current pricing model! Even if you’re approved for the current student plan, you won’t be able to ask many questions! Even if you ask the same questions you would with a free AI, the cost could be countless times higher!

same issue here,, i used copilot extensively past month and that wasnot even near 20% usage,, but today all 100% went out in 4 hrs

I can understand if this is an unintentional bug. However, if GitHub purposefully changed the pricing model for Student accounts, that's kinda turning a blind eye. First, they removed the good models. Okay fine. I understand that you need to save costs for Student accounts, which are free. But now you have changed the full credit system and are offering 1/20 of what you used to. Then what's the point of all this? Better yet, we just go back to the free version.

Same issue
and i dont even use github copilot stuff..

same issue, i once used it all night now i only used it like 2 times and its full

This is bullshit. I hit 1500 in one day with a Copilot plus yearly plan I bought a few months back. ONE DAY!! I even set a $50 limit which was hit today also! Unbelievable that I went from running out of credits about 20 days into the month now I hit it in one day!! Based on my usage I will be at around $3k for the month. This is insane! Bait and switch DO NOT BUY a PLAN!

I'm also facing the same issue. I am a subscriber on the Pro plan, and with the same usage and habits, I never used up my quota in the previous months. However, at the beginning of June, I was just notified that I've already used up the $15 quota. I now suspect there's an issue with GitHub Copilot's billing system! How can I get in touch with GitHub’s human customer service?