Microsoft · MAI Code line · coding
MAI-Code-1-Flash was released by Microsoft on June 2, 2026, as a coding model in the MAI Code line.
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
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MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is the current model in this line. The card shows 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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