Why copilot student account give only 200 AI credits ???????? it seems nothg for basic 300 line code let alone development!

[ahamedrashid-me]

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Why copilot student account give only 200 AI credits ???????? it seems nothg for basic 300 line code let alone development!
previously it used to give more API credit reset every month! it was good enough for learnig and building something serious!

[AhmadHassan-BTed]

Same : (
It takes one prompt (does not even finish either too) to get it coded and then wait for a full month.
You can use "Cline" VS Code extension instead, it has free models, you can use them All day. Hehe

[Timzka]

very true, i also really don't like the change to always have to use "auto".

a year back i could use something like haiku or a low-level GPT and have that limit last the entire month with some to spare

now i do a simple request, it randomly chooses codex 5 and then woops, all tokens gone

[gptdevansh]

If you're a student and running out of Copilot AI credits, here's an alternative you can try.

If you have a Jio SIM (India), you can claim 18 months of Google Gemini for free. It also gives you a good amount of AI credits for Antigravity IDE and Antigravity CLI.

You can use different models like Gemini 3.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6, and GPT-OSS.

I've been using it for coding, debugging, and other development tasks. You should definitely give it a try once.