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title: "MAI-Code-1-Flash"
url: "https://handyai.news/modeldrop/mai-code-1-flash"
published: "2026-06-02T17:00:00.000Z"
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description: "MAI-Code-1-Flash, which Microsoft AI shipped on June 2, 2026, is a small in-house coding model trained inside GitHub Copilot's own harness and rolled out…"
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# MAI-Code-1-Flash

*Published June 2, 2026 · Model Drop*

MAI-Code-1-Flash, which Microsoft AI shipped on June 2, 2026, is a small in-house coding model trained inside GitHub Copilot's own harness and rolled out first to Copilot users in VS Code.

- Model: MAI-Code-1-Flash in GitHub Copilot
- Maker: Microsoft
- Ship date: June 2, 2026
- Pricing: GitHub Copilot only, billed at $0.75 / $4.50 per M tokens
- Context: 256K tokens
- Where you can use it: GitHub Copilot in VS Code, picker and Auto
- More Copilot apps and plans later in June

**When to reach for it**:

- Quick edits, refactors and repo Q&A
- Cheap first pass in Copilot's Auto mode
- Skip it for tricky logic or design work

**How it compares**:

- Pitched straight at Claude Haiku 4.5
- Small-tier peer of Gemini 3.5 Flash

**What makes it different**:

- Trained in Copilot's production harness
- Spends fewer tokens on easy requests

**Early reactions**: Hacker News readers called the launch thin on technical detail and doubted it could compete with Claude, GPT or Gemini, while later hands-on reviews found it fast and cheap but shaky on harder tasks.

**Read more**: [Introducing MAI-Code-1-Flash](https://microsoft.ai/news/introducingmai-code-1-flash/), [model card](https://microsoft.ai/pdf/MAI-Code-1-Flash-Model-Card.PDF)

## The benchmarks

Microsoft ran every coding row in the same VS Code-based GitHub Copilot production harness for both models, and its only comparison model is Claude Haiku 4.5, so these are internal evals against a single small rival.

#### Microsoft's numbers

- SWE-bench Pro (harder real-repo fixes): 51.2%. +16.0 over Claude Haiku 4.5 (35.2%).
- SWE-bench Verified (real GitHub fixes): 71.6%. +5.0 over Claude Haiku 4.5 (66.6%).
- Terminal-Bench 2.0 (agentic terminal tasks): 54.8%. +13.2 over Claude Haiku 4.5 (41.6%).
- SWE-Bench Multilingual (fixes across languages): 65.5%. +2.8 over Claude Haiku 4.5 (62.7%).
- τ²-bench Telecom (agentic tool use): 71.7%. +17.0 over Claude Haiku 4.5 (54.7%).
- GPQA Diamond (grad-level science): 84.6%. +11.4 over Claude Haiku 4.5 (73.2%).
- AIME 2026 (competition math): 92.5%. +9.2 over Claude Haiku 4.5 (83.3%).
- Artifacts Bench (visual coding): 36.4%. −0.2 under Claude Haiku 4.5 (36.6%).


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