Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet no longer available in Copilot Pro?

[breinergg]

Hi everyone,

I’m currently using Copilot Pro and a few days ago I was able to access and use the Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet models without any issues. However, recently I noticed that these models are no longer appearing in the model selector. There is no error message — they simply disappeared from the available options.

I’d like to know if:
These models were removed temporarily?
There has been a change in model availability for Copilot Pro users?
This could be related to region, account settings, or feature rollout?
Anyone else is experiencing the same issue?

Thanks in advance!

[dhimant77]

Same problem, pro users also can't access claude opus model. Basically rendering github copilot useless

[VladBullet]

Github copilot just lost most of its users with this move. Why should I pay 15x tokens for a model that does the job 5% better than opus 4.6. No thank you. I will be removing my subcription and give my money directly to Anthropic. Bye Microsoft!

[mdumakurtas]

Its not avalible on Pro and Pro+

[MarkoBaru]

Its not avalible on Pro and Pro+
I just figured out what solves the issue, open https://github.com/settings/copilot/coding_agent and then enable "Allow Claude coding agent", restart VSCode 💯 :)

[mdumakurtas]

I fixed too but i used this way: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/189999#discussioncomment-17064430

[Jdlopezva]

It's a shame that GitHub is removing access to Claude's models for students. Is paying for Copilot Pro now the only way to get these models?

[jenichol]

Use this directly:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dliedke.ClaudeCodeExtension

fake

HOw is this fake when I'm using this extension within VS2026 Community now?

According to Anthropic's documentation, this is their official VS Code extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropic.claude-code

[Farindra968]

But still, some Claude model (Claude Haiku) is available in the student pack

[jenichol]

Use this directly:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dliedke.ClaudeCodeExtension

fake

HOw is this fake when I'm using this extension within VS2026 Community now?

According to Anthropic's documentation, this is their official VS Code extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropic.claude-code

Well hold on just a minute. The link you provided is for VS Code, and NOT Visual Studio 2026 Community IDE.

Ah I missed that you were using Visual Studio 2026 Community. As far as I can tell, Anthropic has not released an extension for Visual Studio, only VS Code. Going by the username for the extension you mentioned, diedke, they do not appear to be affiliated with Anthropic.

Personally, I don't trust unofficial AI extensions because they have the ability to read everything that is processed, including your API token if the extension needs that. I'm not saying that diedke is doing that, only that it's possible.

[jlchavez]

Personally ClaudeCode Extensions in Visual Studio or VS Code are pure crap, for vibe coders might be cool, the difference with Copilot where huge, and the control you have is very different.

[rajanikant04]

I was also facing the same issue.
Then I have tried to reload the window of vs code 2 to 3 times and then showing properly.

[naqvi110k]

Hi! Claude models on Copilot can disappear due to a few common reasons:

Copilot Pro+ is required for Claude Opus 4.6 — Pro alone may not include it
Regional availability — not all regions have access yet
GitHub sometimes adjusts model access during rollout phases

Quick fixes to try:

Check your plan at github.com/settings/copilot
Sign out and back into Copilot
Try the model selector on github.com instead of your IDE

If still missing, contact support at support.github.com 👍

[jesusdleguiza944]

only opus 4.7 is in pro+ but with 7.5x You will run out of tokens quite fast.

In my opinion, it consumes twice as much as 4.6 ... it's a shame for GitHub.

[otto-poblysh]

Some of us don't want to use 4.7. I prefer the value and pricing of 4.6. Why did they have to take 4.6 away?

[herrsei123]

whats are alternatives für using opus?

[rajesh0854]

time to switch to Claude code or Cursor!
copilot==shit

[PerryCodes]

Yep. I'm done with this.

[Omkar18U]

They've removed entire claude models for GH student pack officially now.

[GodParticle72774]

They removed it from Perplexity Pro for students as well. But I pay for Anthropic Pro, so just using claude.ai.

[anshul-031]

Can we add credit card or debit card?, such that opus model can be accessed via paid version & other models via our regular copilot student pack?

[KlomDark]

No, they yanked it for paid users, I have Pro and it's gone. Switch to Claude Code. It's far more expensive, but it works very very good.

[PerryCodes]

Same here. All 3x models are gone.

[GodParticle72774]

oh yeah, we can still upgrade to mac and all that and you can just get pro on claude.ai, but max, max5x and 20x are best.

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[GodParticle72774]

No, they have taken support for opus out of everything except paid subs.

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[KlomDark]

Gone from paid Pro accounts too

[MohitSutharOfficial]

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Hi 👋

This is actually expected behavior and not an issue on your side.
GitHub has recently changed how models are exposed in Copilot (including Copilot CLI). Because of this:

• Latest Claude models (like Opus 4.6 or newer Sonnet versions) may not appear anymore
• Model availability depends on your plan, region, and rollout updates
• Copilot only provides a limited/curated set of models, not full access to all Claude versions

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✅ Using Claude models in Copilot CLI

You can still use available (older/stable) Claude models via Copilot CLI.
First, check which models are available:

copilot models

Then select one of the available Claude models:

copilot chat --model claude-sonnet-4.5

Or inside interactive mode:

/model claude-sonnet-4.5

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⚠️ Important

• If a model is not listed, you cannot access it via Copilot CLI
• Missing models are usually due to:
  • Feature rollout changes
  • Plan limitations
  • Temporary removal by GitHub

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💡 Suggestion

If you specifically need the latest Claude models, you’ll need to use them via:

• Anthropic API directly
• Other platforms that provide full Claude access
  Copilot CLI is mainly designed for integrated development workflows, not full model access.

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Hope this helps 👍

[GitMavick]

correct....

[2025aa05053-wilp-bits]

❌ Error: (query) Execution failed: CAPIError: 400 The requested model is not supported. (Request ID: EE09:1CDC5D:82DA59:8EADED:69D77D23)

I'm getting this now even on co-pilot

[MohitSutharOfficial]

GitHub is now removing access to many premium models, so it looks like that’s why the model is no longer working. It was available earlier, but now it seems to have been restricted or removed from Copilot.

[ninjacode911]

To clarify what's going on here, since this thread has a mix of different issues being conflated:

There are two separate problems being discussed:

1. Student plan users — models removed from selector

GitHub officially removed manual selection of premium Claude models (Opus, Sonnet) from the Copilot Student plan as of mid-March 2026. This is intentional, not a bug. These models
may still be used internally via "auto mode," but you can no longer pick them manually. The only way to get them back in the selector is upgrading to a paid Copilot Pro or Pro+
plan. More details in https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/189268#discussion-9625183.

2. Paid Pro/Pro+ users — models throwing errors

Several paying users in this thread are reporting that Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 throw errors like Error during execution or 400: too many URL images in request. This is a
different issue entirely and is not about plan restrictions — it's a service-side bug.

If you're on a paid plan and seeing errors:

• Try reloading your VS Code window (this has worked for some people)
• Test the model on https://github.com chat instead of your IDE to isolate the issue
• Check your Copilot plan status at https://github.com/settings/copilot to confirm you're actually on Pro/Pro+
• If the 400: too many URL images error persists, it's a known bug with how Copilot serializes context for Claude models — open a support ticket at https://support.github.com

@fershibli @JoeyGellerbit — since you're paying customers getting errors, this is worth a direct support ticket. The student plan changes shouldn't affect you at all.

[ibragimov-oasis]

As a verified student, I was extremely disappointed by the March 12, 2026 changes to the GitHub Copilot Student plan.

GitHub says this is necessary “to keep Copilot free and accessible for millions of students”. But let’s be honest:

1. The number of verified students has been stable for years (~2 million, as GitHub itself wrote). It’s not exploding. Students come and go every year at the same rate — this is not a sudden “we can’t afford it anymore” situation.

2. Rich students from developed countries (USA, Europe, etc.) who could afford Claude Pro ($20/month) or even team plans were already using paid Claude anyway. They didn’t rely on free Copilot.
   The ones who really needed Copilot were students from developing countries and lower-income families who couldn’t buy Claude or GPT subscriptions. Now they lost the only good free tool they had.

3. Where is the data? GitHub gave ZERO statistics. No numbers on:

   • How much student usage actually increased in 2025–2026
   • How many premium requests students were really consuming
   • Real cost difference between Auto mode and manual Opus/Sonnet

   Just corporate words “sustainable” and “long-term”. Show us the numbers.

4. Auto mode is much worse in practice. My own experience today (April 1, 2026): one single message in Auto → rate limit hit (request ID: 3BC5:1FA0BC:34D9383:3BBBEEC:69CCABAE). It consumed 2.4% of my quota. Claude Opus 4.6 used to take 0.3% for the same task. So Auto is not “saving money” — it’s wasting more quota on dumber results.

This change didn’t make Copilot “free for everyone”. It made it "useless for serious student work". We’re not abusing the system — we’re learning and building real projects. Removing the best models while keeping the same PRU limits is not “sustainability”, it’s just cutting corners on the future developers you claim to support.

GitHub’s "most valuable asset is not the models or the infrastructure" — it is the "students*" We are the ones who create the next big things.

Just a few weeks ago a 20-year-old Chinese undergraduate student Guo Hangjiang built "MiroFish" (github.com/666ghj/MiroFish) — a groundbreaking open-source multi-agent AI simulation engine that topped global GitHub Trending, got 33k+ stars in days and attracted millions in funding. One student. One laptop. With AI coding assistants.

Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook while he was a student at Harvard. Linus Torvalds started Linux as a student. Countless world-changing open-source ecosystems, tools and companies were born in student dorm rooms and GitHub repos.

Students are not just “users who come and go”. We are the future of the entire developer ecosystem that GitHub claims to support.

But right now you are "depriving your most valuable asset" of the best tools.

You are not “preserving the community”. You are "losing it". By taking away the best models you are telling students: “your serious projects are no longer welcome here for free”. Many will simply leave for Claude.ai, Cursor, or other tools.

Please reconsider. The future of GitHub depends on the students you are now limiting.

Please either:

• Bring back manual selection of Claude Opus 4.6 / Sonnet for students, or
• Let us choose premium models but with higher PRU cost (5–10x), or
• or make discount for using pro features for students.

Thank you for reading. Hope the team reconsiders.

[sakxam-xeetri]

This isn’t a bug — it’s most likely an intentional change by GitHub.

Recently, GitHub started removing some premium models (including Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6) from certain Copilot plans or contexts. This especially affects:

Student plans
Some Copilot Pro users depending on rollout/region
VS Code model picker availability

Reports across multiple discussions show these models disappearing from the selector even with active subscriptions, which indicates backend changes rather than a local issue.

Additionally, GitHub has been adjusting model availability and limiting access to higher-cost models as part of plan restructuring and cost optimization.

What you can do
Check “Manage Models” in Copilot settings (some models may require manual enabling or API keys)
Try Copilot Web (sometimes models appear there but not in VS Code)
Wait for rollout updates (availability is being changed gradually)
Important note

Even though models like Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 exist and were added earlier, availability inside Copilot is not guaranteed across all plans anymore.

[KlomDark]

Gone from Pro, and I spent over $200 last month. Done now unless it comes back.

[pamudu123]

It is so disappointing to see this change. Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 are no longer available for the Pro plan. Meanwhile, OpenAI is increasing its limits, while Microsoft is reducing theirs. It is sad to see this trend. Also, the $39 Copilot Pro+ plan does not seem worth it compared to other tools like Codex and Cursor.

[adam4813]

We have provided more details about changes to Copilot Individual Plans in this discussion, which may be updated if new information becomes available.

To keep conversations all in one place and to ensure you receive timely updates, we recommend you subscribe to the discussion linked above.

The discussion you linked doesn't cover the missing cut-over/off date and the missing deprecation date on the model documentation page https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-models#model-retirement-history.

@adam4813 thank you for reporting that discrepency in the docs. It has been reported to our team for review.

[yuchad]

So I guess Opus 4.6 is no longer available, is that correct?

[onurserment]

Hello,
I am an annual Copilot Pro subscriber. I chose the yearly plan specifically to access high-end models like Claude 4.6 Opus. However, I noticed that access has been restricted recently, prompting me to "upgrade." Since I have already paid for a full year under the current terms, I find this mid-term change unfair.

[large]

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-changes-to-github-copilot-plans-for-individuals/

[YamiOdymel]

Let's fucking gOOOOoooo 💀💀💀💀
I’ve also heard that Copilot is going to start charging by tokens in May.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/comments/1sqy8uz/thats_it_claude_opus_46_was_just_removed_from_pro/

Opus models are no longer available in Pro plans. Opus 4.7 remains available in Pro+ plans. As we announced in our changelog, Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 will be removed from Pro+.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/

[jj-jamen]

What's next? they'l deprecate Sonnet 4.6? How many GH co-pilot pro and pro+ subscribers actually use models other than opus and sonnet? Thats gonna be bad for the majority. Best solution is to sever our dependecy in these models.

[arcticpinecone]

I just have to chime in too, since there doesn't seem to be anywhere else.

Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 are awesome models, at a reasonable cost. Why can't that be enough?

[warpedgeoid]

Because those are heavily subsidized. Now we see how much it really costs MS to offer Anthropic models.

[hakon3]

I upgraded, but still I can only use 4.7? Where is 4.6 at 3x?

[popcatalin81]

This is disgraceful beyond belief.

[Nina-lj]

Bring back Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6!!!!!!

[saddit]

They have already opened the refund channel. Run away.

[warpedgeoid]

I'm going to strongly consider moving my company from Azure to AWS.

[AlexsProGrammer]

Very scummy practice. Removing models in the middle of the month. No warning or msg, isnt like they own VsCode and can display custom msgs.
Further since I bought my subscription over a year ago they changed their terms of service multiple times without any notice.
And im not complaining about change, its ok and needed if their payment model doesnt work out.
But 1st they are a multi billion company so money shoudnt be that of an issue. Its more likely Investors want to see higher and higher revenue each month, witch is idiotic.
2nd and most disturbing they cant be transparent about it. Despite these online articels they publish on their website, they so hidden i had to find this thread to find answers. So in my opinion they want that no one finds out, so they dont have to explain and refund people.

Sometimes I which Clippy would kick their ass.

[saddit]

I haven't even passed the first subscription cycle, yet the rights I paid for have been arbitrarily taken away.

[frank02828s-star]

I paid for the Pro subscription a week and a half ago, and exactly one week later it wouldn't let me use Opus anymore, even though I was using it without any problems when suddenly he stopped sending messages. I migrated to Claude Code but it has horrible usage limits; after sending only 4 or 5 messages, I reached the session limit and have to wait 4 hours for it to restart.

[AbdulrahmanKanaan]

Why would you remove Claude models from the Pro plan? You were already charging 3x premium requests for using Opus! Isn't that enough to justify keeping them available?
I mean, I might understand if it were free, but I'm already paying! It does not make any sense to remove it mid-subscription!

[KalanaPerera]

Old GitHub would never have done this. Disappointed :/

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/get-started/plans

[alpha-uniform]

I'm having Copilot Pro+ and even in the text above this table it is written, that you have access to all chat models.

[robsonware]

now Copilot is just a disgusting piece of shit 💩

[moparlakci]

they just f**d everyone using Claude Opus 4.6 with a Pro plan.

[unseensenpai]

New Claude rates insane on copilot:

No free options left and strong models like GPT 5.4, Opus 4.7 etc. crazy times multiplier.

[KalanaPerera]

crazyyy high

[tomoutsuki]

I am baffled to see such a violent change. However, I also feel that this is probably the tendency from now on, newer language models becoming more and more distant and inaccessible from the people

[simonare]

This means enterprises will become bigger and bigger, and individual/solo developers and small teams gonna struggle with the limited models.

But again new rates ate just crazy and for me, non-sense and unjustifiable

[PerryCodes]

Yeah - this is absolute fking the individual user. Pro is absolutely useless for me since this change. It wastes more time than it saves.

[alpha-uniform]

They changed the multiplier from now on to 15. It's completely useless to pay for pro+ if you get 50 prompts per month.

[HeroKince]

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/

[Ronald-Nyami]

I am on GitHub Copilot so the've also removed the access to latest model and request an upgrade to GitHub Copilot Pro+ .
I have just switched to claude directly ... no need to keep wasting my time and $$$

[mdumakurtas]

They removed Claude Sonnet 4.6 from Pro+ plus too.
On Pro+ only these models are now avalible

[mdumakurtas]

I found a fix for this. I think it's connected with the issue from the last few hours when PR actions weren't working.
I logged out and back into WebStorm, and now I have the Pro+ models again.

[arkiaman]

confirmed, Sonnet 4.6 re-appeared

[arkiaman]

If you want to reduce the load onto the Anthropic datacenters, remove its models from the dropdowns ! :-)

[iobajwa]

I am facing the same issue on VS Code (Claude Sonnet 4.6 not available), even though I am on a Pro+ plan- I have tried logging in/out and restarting the editor but the issue persists.

[Radulepy]

I cannot see it either in the lower select box. I can see in the language models settings tho but cannot select it.