Promises are made to be broken
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In March 2026, Microsoft promised GitHub Copilot users the following:
> Continuous access when premium requests are unavailable
> GPT-5.3-Codex is available on paid plans with a 1x premium request multiplier, which means it consumes premium requests. To ensure continuous access to Copilot when premium requests are unavailable:
> - Premium request quota exhausted: If a user has used their monthly premium request allowance, Copilot automatically falls back to GPT-4.1 (the former base model) at no additional cost to the user.
> - Overage controls disabled: If an organization or enterprise has disabled premium request overages and a user reaches their limit, Copilot will fall back to GPT-4.1.
Today, this promise has disappeared from the same official page https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/fallback-and-lts-models.
Do you think Microsoft will offer an in-house model to handle requests once the budget is exhausted?
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Wayback Machine proof:
[April 20, 2026 snapshot](https://web.archive.org/web/20260420194229/https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/fallback-and-lts-models)