Copilot free taken over by the settings of one organization

[croqaz]

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Hi! I believe this is a bug, or perhaps a negative feedback, but my hope is that gets improved.
I am part of multiple organizations and recently one of the organizations purchased Copilot Business, and I lost access to all the settings in https://github.com/settings/copilot ; before this, I could enable/ disable models like Claude, Gemini or OpenAI, but now I can't change anything.
I'm sure different people (myself included) are in different organizations and some may need different features of Copilot enabled or disabled, you can't have one org completely overwrite the needs of all the others.
I'm sure different people (myself included) use Copilot in different mediums (VS-Code, NVIM, etc), and different repositories (Github, Gitlab, Gitea, etc) which means in completely different contexts outside that single org that bought Copilot Business.
It's just wrong to allow one org to completely take over a part of the settings of your personal profile.
The current state of things makes Copilot almost useless for me.

I would like to change the context of Copilot from the client that I'm using, so I can switch to Copilot personal for my personal needs.
Thank you for your time!

[ivsanro1]

I am also facing a similar issue.

I had a student license that granted me free Copilot usage, and I did not have any restriction on the models I could use. I could use o3-mini.

Then one of my orgs assigned to me a me a paid enterprise license and applied some restrictions, which made some models disappear from the vscode copilot model selection (including o3-mini).

Then, I found I couldn't fallback or switch to my personal, educational license (and I couldn't see it whatsoever, so I'm not sure if I lost it due to the overriding license), rendering me unable to continue using Copilot as I were in personal projects.

In general, I feel this "enforcement" of some org's license is quite restrictive and we should be able to select what license we want to use at any point for different orgs/projects.

[croqaz]

That's a very valid concern! Copilot for education shouldn't be controlled by one of the organizations that you happen to be part of!
Organizations could have different legal reasons that they enable/ disable features, and that shouldn't interfere with Copilot when you use it in an education context.

[andre-krueger]

Also if one uses the GitHub Copilot Business/Enterprise license for working on personal projects with own equipment, company resources are still used (the license itself).

Ideally, it should be possible to choose the license per device. It also gives GitHub/Microsoft more revenue.

[Vikhyat2603]

I have the same issue with my student license, and the webpage doesn't even tell me which of my organizations is causing this issue.

[sudo-hmmanshu]

Happened to me too!

I was charged for a personal Copilot subscription, but I recently joined an organisation that provides Copilot Business. Since joining, my personal Copilot access has been overridden by the organisation’s settings, and I’m unable to use the features I’m paying for.
I have raised a ticket for this as well. This is not at all fair.

[croqaz]

Wow, really? So if I decide to buy Personal Copilot right now, I can't use it at all because one of the orgs I'm part of, has my Copilot hostage? It's like burning money.
I stopped using Copilot, I recommend looking at alternatives like Cursor, V0 by Vercel, Tabnine, etc.

[DarkRoku12]

Same with me as well, Organization settings is overwriting mine's as well.

[jedi4z]

from copilot support.

When you are assigned a GitHub Copilot seat through your organization, your personal Copilot subscription is automatically canceled. This ensures that you are not charged twice for the same service. You will receive a prorated refund for any remaining portion of your personal plan's current billing cycle.

Now, you can use GitHub Copilot under your organization's subscription, and your access will follow the policies and settings defined by your organization.

If you'd like to continue using your personal subscription instead, you would need to contact your organization to revoke your assigned seat. Once the seat is revoked, you can re-subscribe to a personal plan if needed. Let me know if you need help with any specific steps!

doesn't makes any sense

[jedi4z]

They refund me a proportional of my subscription but it's dumb.