Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Quick Answer
Gemini 3.6 Flash, Google's latest model for GitHub Copilot, enhances web and app development with improved task-completion rates and token efficiency compared to Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Quick Take
Available to various Copilot users, it supports parallel and requires admin activation for enterprise plans.
Key Points
- Gemini 3.6 Flash shows higher task-completion rates than Gemini 3.5 Flash.
- Available for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users.
- Supports configurable reasoning effort and parallel tool use.
- Gradual rollout; check availability in your Copilot settings.
- Enterprise admins must enable Gemini 3.6 Flash Preview policy.
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~1 min readGemini 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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— Originally published at github.blog
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