MAI-Code-1.1-Flash available in GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot now includes MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft's improved coding model with native vision support for image understanding and enhanced coding quality.
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft’s latest small-tier coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Building on MAI-Code-1-Flash, it adds native vision support for image understanding and delivers improvements across coding quality, instruction following, tool use, and performance.
Alongside these model enhancements, continued advances in model and serving efficiency have enabled a 73% lower list price than MAI-Code-1-Flash, making it a cost-effective option for lightweight coding workflows that require a balance of capability and cost efficiency. For annual GitHub Copilot subscribers, the model is charged at a 0.25× premium request multiplier.
Read the MAI-Code-1.1-Flash announcement for a deeper look at the model’s vision support, coding performance improvements, and efficiency gains.
This model is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing. See GitHub Copilot’s pricing for models and requests for details.
Availability in GitHub Copilot
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash will be available to Copilot Free and Student users through auto model selection. Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise SKUs will be able to manually select this model in addition to having auto model select it.
You’ll be able to select the model in the model picker in:
- Copilot CLI
- Copilot cloud agent
- GitHub Copilot app
- Copilot Chat on GitHub
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio
- GitHub Mobile
- JetBrains IDEs
- Eclipse
- Xcode
Enabling access
Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Business plan administrators must enable the MAI-Code-1.1-Flash policy in Copilot settings. The policy is off by default.
Learn more
To explore all models available in GitHub Copilot, see our documentation on models and get started with Copilot.
Share your feedback
Share your feedback on this model in the GitHub Community Discussion.
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