Claude Sonnet 5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, a new Sonnet-class model with strong coding performance, is now generally available for GitHub Copilot. The model excels in CLI-style tasks and offers competitive latency, available to Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users across multiple IDEs and platforms.

Claude Sonnet 5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic’s latest Sonnet-class model, now available in GitHub Copilot. It brings strong coding performance to everyday development and agentic workflows, giving developers a new Sonnet-class option for tasks across the IDE and CLI. In our internal testing, Claude Sonnet 5 showed strong results across a range of coding scenarios, including particularly strong performance on CLI-style tasks. It also demonstrated excellent prompt-cache utilization and competitive latency at lower effort levels, making it a strong choice for developers who want fast, capable Sonnet-class performance in Copilot. This model is billed at provider list pricing under Usage Based Billing. See GitHub Copilot’s pricing for models and requests https://docs.github.com/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing for details. Availability in GitHub Copilot availability-in-github-copilot Claude Sonnet 5 will be available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users. You’ll be able to select the model in the model picker in: - Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio - Copilot CLI - GitHub Copilot cloud agent - GitHub Copilot App - github.com - GitHub Mobile iOS and Android - JetBrains - Xcode - Eclipse Rollout will be gradual. Check back soon if you don’t see it yet. Enabling access enabling-access Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Business plan administrators can enable Claude Sonnet 5 for their organization through the model policy settings in Copilot. Like other Sonnet models in GitHub Copilot, Claude Sonnet 5 operates under Zero Data Retention ZDR . Learn more learn-more To explore all models available in GitHub Copilot, see our documentation on models https://docs.github.com/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-models and get started with Copilot. Share your feedback share-your-feedback Join the GitHub Community https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/copilot-conversations to share your feedback.