Grok 4.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Quick Answer
Grok 4.5, xAI's latest reasoning model, is now available in GitHub Copilot, featuring a context window of 500,000 tokens and supporting text and image inputs.
Quick Take
It excels in terminal-based coding tasks, particularly in Visual Studio Code and Copilot CLI, and is accessible to various Copilot plans, though administrators must enable it in settings.
Key Points
- Grok 4.5 supports low, medium, and high reasoning efforts for complex workflows.
- Internal tests showed strong performance in terminal-based coding tasks.
- Available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users.
- Gradual rollout; administrators must enable Grok 4.5 by default.
- Model selection available in multiple IDEs including Visual Studio and JetBrains.
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~1 min readGrok 4.5, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for fast, agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, with a context window of up to 500,000 tokens, support for text and image inputs, as well as low, medium, and high reasoning effort.
In our internal testing, Grok 4.5 showed strong results across terminal-based coding tasks in Visual Studio Code and Copilot CLI. It performed especially well when dispatching tools in parallel and taking direct action, making it a strong fit for exploration, unblocking complex tasks, and time-sensitive coding 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
Grok 4.5 will be available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise SKUs.
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 Grok 4.5 policy in Copilot settings. The policy is off by default.
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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