The newest MAI Code model is MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, released on August 11, 2026. It has been 74 days since then. The line has only 1 gap between releases so far (70 days), too few to know its usual rhythm.
How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Latest: MAI-Code-1.1-Flash · Aug 11, 2026
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Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Microsoft's own numbers.
Adds image input and a 256K-token context, solves more terminal tasks with fewer tokens than MAI-Code-1-Flash, and Microsoft says it costs a quarter as much to run — available to every GitHub Copilot user.
Compared with MAI-Code-1-Flash · the model it replaces
Finishes 6 in 10 multi-step tasks at the command line
Terminal Bench 2.1 — running real commands to complete a task, inside GitHub Copilot
62.9%
▲ up from 51.7% · +11 points
Slightly better at fixing real software bugs, using a fifth fewer tokens
SWE-bench Verified — fixing real bugs in real software projects
72.6%
▲ up from 71.6% · +1 point · 8.6K tokens per task, was 10.8K
Costs a quarter of what the previous version did
Price — Microsoft's stated cost vs MAI-Code-1-Flash; exact API rate not yet published
1/4 the cost
▲ was $0.75 / $4.50 per 1M tokens
Microsoft's first in-house coding model — small, cheap, and ahead of Claude Haiku 4.5 on the coding tests Microsoft published.
Compared with Claude Haiku 4.5 · a competitor — comparison chosen by Microsoft
Solves about half of hard real-world coding tasks
SWE-bench Pro — fixing real bugs in real software projects
51.2%
▲ vs 35.2% for Haiku 4.5 · +16 points
Follows written instructions more precisely than Haiku 4.5
IF Bench — gap only; Microsoft didn't publish raw scores
+28.9 points
▲ ahead of Haiku 4.5
Costs less than a dollar per million input tokens
Price per 1M tokens — what developers pay, input / output
$0.75 / $4.50
✦ launch price — nothing earlier to compare