No free models available and now quota reached even it was yesterday 60%

[markkusiermala-sketch]

• Copilot Chat Extension Version:0.41 (2026-03-25)
• VS Code Version: 1.116.0
• OS Version:26.3 (25D125) Tahoe MAC
• Feature (e.g. agent/edit/ask mode):all
• Selected model (e.g. GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet):all
• Logs: chat quota reached and no free models, system is useless

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Just open chat ant try to use copilot

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[robotsnh]

@markkusiermala-sketch Approximately how many chat messages did you use between the time it was 60% yesterday and when you last checked? (This also includes Copilot commit message summaries, these are part of your quota.)

[markkusiermala-sketch]

Not many chat messages.
This started suddenly (about 50% requests left) it start to say that "models is not available". Then next day it works again, I tried to sign out, reinstall plugin. Yesterday acting was also strange it works suddenly and then it start to say that no premium requests available. But any way there must be those free models available and I cannot see them.

[markkusiermala-sketch]

[markkusiermala-sketch]

[robotsnh]

@markkusiermala-sketch There are no models that are completely free; unfortunately, a "quota" system has been implemented for non-subscribers. I would suggest using a model from an official website such as Gemini or Claude; while these don't work as well for analyzing codebases, they can still analyze open-source codebases extremely effectively. Another alternative is subscribing to Claude Pro and using Claude Code from the terminal or inside VSCode.

[markkusiermala-sketch]

I’m a paying Copilot user (10 USD/month), and my subscription has been active and working normally until a couple of days ago. At that time, my usage was nowhere near 100%, and I was using models that should not consume premium request credits.
Despite this, Copilot suddenly started showing “quota full” errors and hiding the non‑premium models. This behavior does not match my actual usage, and it has never happened before. It looks like the quota system is either miscalculating my usage or failing to switch to the models that are supposed to remain available without consuming premium credits.
Could you please check my account’s quota state and correct it if it is stuck or incorrectly depleted?
Thanks.