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Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot

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Gemini 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… The post Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> Gemini 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.

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

Gemini 3.6 Flash 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

JetBrains

Xcode

Eclipse

Rollout will be gradual. Check back soon if you don’t see it yet.

Enabling access

Copilot 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.

Learn more

To explore all models available in GitHub Copilot, see our documentation on models and get started with Copilot.

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