[2026-03-16] Incident Thread - Copilot

We’re aware some users on Copilot Pro (complementary, trial and paid) are seeing premium/advanced models disappear from the VS Code model picker and/or show “Contact your admin,” and we’re actively investigating.

In the meantime, please do not click "Start paid plan" as a workaround from the Copilot Pro trial - this will remove you from the trial and initiate a paid subscription.

If you’re affected, please reply with your plan type (Student / Pro trial / Pro paid), VS Code + Copilot extension versions, OS, and roughly when the issue started.

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[guij2]

I am affected, upgraded from student to pro trial plan, and the issue started around 6 hours ago (could be longer, but that's when I woke up and noticed.) Happening on all my systems across the VSCode extension, web copilot chat and copilot CLI.

[f5alcon]

I have this issue noticed it as soon as I opened it 5 hours ago. I'm on pro trial

[southamericarust]

I'm having trouble with 2 accounts, I created this one to test it and it's having problems too.

[mviniC-Skia]

I'm affected and using the pro trial plan and the issue just started today. I still can't use any premium models.

[Virtwin-EnergyAB]

affected, i am on Pro trial

[strzelec2012]

From today morning. PRO TRIAL.

[evilru]

I just recognized it ~1h ago.

subscription pro trial
vscode 1.112.0-insider (6da8508c163304b57109793b1b930b737f06c5ff)
copilot chat 0.40.2026031601
copilot cli 1.0.5
os windows 11 + wsl

[jishan1019]

Affected – Copilot Pro Trial

I’m also experiencing this issue.

Plan: Copilot Pro Trial
VS Code Version: 1.109.5
Copilot Chat Extension: 0.37.9
OS: Linux x64 (6.17.0-14-generic)

Claude Sonnet and Opus models were visible and working yesterday. However, starting today they no longer appear in the Copilot Chat model selector.

I confirmed this is happening on my Pro trial account, and the premium/advanced models have disappeared from the VS Code model picker.

The issue started approximately today (2026-03-16).

[AliMounir]

exactly the same!

[NathanNatNat]

This is NOT just VS Code.
It is happening in Visual Studio IDE 2026 also.
It's happening on both Pro paid and Pro trial.

[jakabaskara]

same here, i changed to pro but sonnet still not appear

[maquieirajoseluis]

Today (2026-03-16), both Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.6 have disappeared from the model selector in Copilot Chat. These models were available and functioning correctly yesterday.

Plan: Copilot Pro Trial
VS Code Version: 1.111.0
Copilot Chat Extension: 0.39.1
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0 (macOS)

[ifeeltech]

Same here, I'm on PRO Trial, no Sonnet or Opus

[StevenMaude]

This is NOT just VS Code.

Seeing this in the GitHub cloud coding agent; only have Auto and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max available for my Copilot Pro trial.

[ahmed-abdou1]

I've already clicked on the "Start Paid Plan" as this was the solution in another thread, although I was on the copilot pro plan. Is there any way to reverse this since this post mentioned that we should not click on the "Start Paid Plan"?

[bogoudengap]

me too!

[usmankhalid444]

same, and charged $10 as well.

[belalmoh]

Same here

[alberfdez1523]

Affected – Copilot Pro Trial

I’m also experiencing this issue and now the trial end and i'm paying and models pro dissapered.

Plan: Copilot Pro Trial - Copilot Pro
VS Code Version: 1.111.0
Copilot Chat Extension: 0.39.1
OS: Windows 11

[santoshhyadav]

I had to start the plan and stop the trial period to get it resolved. I hope there can be any kind of compensation on this.
Can they add month to my copilot pro plan since I started today, experience this bug issue and had to stop trial to get it resolved.

[nanotecheg]

still have the issue Plan: Copilot Student VS Code Version: 1.111.0 Copilot Chat Extension: 0.39.2 OS: Ubuntu 24.04

[kyotama]

The issue is still not resolved on my end.

■ Plan type:
Copilot Pro (trial)

■ Issue:

• Premium models are still missing
• Unable to use premium requests

■ Environment:

• VS Code version: 1.111.0
• Copilot Chat extension version: 0.39.2
• OS: macOS 15.7.4

■ When did the issue start:
The issue started about 2 days ago.

I have already tried reloading VS Code, signing out/in, and restarting, but the issue persists.

[qinweishuai]

1，Github Copilot Pro+（paid）
2，VSCode Version: 1.111.0 (user setup)
Github Copilot Chat Extension Version: 0.39.2
3，OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200 版本 Windows 11 25H2 26200.8037
4，One week ago when I use this in vscode

However I can always use the Claude model in browser.

[eng-mohamedemad-dev]

■ Environment:
On GitHub Student
Copilot version: 0.39.2
VSCode version: 1.111.0
OS: ubuntu

■ Issue:
Premium models are still missing
Unable to use premium requests

■ When did the issue start:
The issue started about three days ago.

[Thepda95]

I just noticed i am affected.

On github student plan.
OS: Win 11
Copilot version: 0.39.2
VSCode version: 1.111.0

Claude Premium models are missing

[S-OMICS]

On GitHub Student Plan
Copilot version: 0.38.2
VSCode version: 1.111.0
OS: Windows
The issue started about two days ago.

[bogoudengap]

I am on pro trial and also affected.

Start paid plan was suggested as only viable solution on threads and I did that (got charged three days into the trial 🙄)

[denizsincar29]

I am on student plan and I am effected. I use it on GitHub copilot coding agent on the website and when I comment to the PR it made, it answers that claude is not available but my model is set to auto, so it could switch to codex but instead it said claude not available

[SomeoneOnKerbin]

Same issue. I am on my student developer pack. And it disappeared since 1 days ago. Fix it fast plz.

[mike671]

Same issue - lost Claud models on VS

[Ynd-i]

Update:
With Student plan

• on Copilot CLI I have Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5 options

[agustinastie2]

GitHub Student Plan
Copilot version: 0.39.2
VSCode version: 1.111.0
OS: Windows 11 Home 25H2
The issue started two days ago.

[buzi-princeton]

I ran into this issue about 2 days ago on the Student plan, right after Copilot announced that Opus would no longer be available for students. After upgrading to Pro+, all models showed the message “Contact your Admin.” The fix for me is to log out of VS Code and log back in. Everything's been normal after that.

[mrstop68]

GitHub Student Plan
Copilot version: 0.39.2
VSCode version: 1.111.0
OS: Windows 11 Home Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
Electron: 39.6.0
ElectronBuildId: 13330601
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
The issue started 3 days ago.