{"slug": "gemini-3-6-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot", "title": "Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot", "summary": "Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash model is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, offering improved task-completion rates and token efficiency over Gemini 3.5 Flash for coding and agentic workflows. The model, billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing, is available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users across editors including Visual Studio Code and JetBrains.", "body_md": "# Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot\n\nGemini 3.6 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for web and app development, coding, and longer-horizon agentic tasks. It has configurable reasoning effort and support for parallel tool use across complex workflows. In early testing, Gemini 3.6 Flash demonstrated higher task-completion rates and better token efficiency than Gemini 3.5 Flash across coding and agentic workflows.\n\nThis 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.\n\n[Availability in GitHub Copilot](#availability-in-github-copilot)\n\nGemini 3.6 Flash will be available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users.\n\nYou’ll be able to select the model in the model picker in:\n\n- Visual Studio Code\n- Visual Studio\n- Copilot CLI\n- GitHub Copilot cloud agent\n- GitHub Copilot app\n- JetBrains\n- Xcode\n- Eclipse\n\nRollout will be gradual. Check back soon if you don’t see it yet.\n\n[Enabling access](#enabling-access)\n\nCopilot Enterprise and Copilot Business plan administrators must enable the Gemini 3.6 Flash Preview policy in Copilot settings before anyone in their organization can select it.\n\n[Learn more](#learn-more)\n\nTo 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.\n\n[Share your feedback](#share-your-feedback)\n\nJoin the [GitHub Community](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/copilot-conversations) to share your feedback.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot", "canonical_source": "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-21-gemini-3-6-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot", "published_at": "2026-07-21 15:04:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-21 15:55:27.010877+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini 3.6 Flash", "GitHub Copilot", "Visual Studio Code", "JetBrains"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot.jsonld"}}