MAI-Code-1.1-Flash cuts Copilot list price 73%

Microsoft’s MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is rolling into GitHub Copilot at a 73% lower list price than its predecessor, with native vision support. GitHub’s changelog says the model is available across Copilot’s CLI, cloud agent, IDE, and mobile surfaces; annual subscribers pay a 0.25× premium request multiplier, while Business and Enterprise admins must enable it because the policy is off by default. This is a routing signal, not a blanket upgrade: teams should trial it on lightweight coding and image-aware tasks, then compare defect and tool-use rates against the cheaper bill; the archive’s case for hard denies in agent control planes shows why the saved request dollar is only half the deployment decision.