Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4 are now generally available in GitHub Copilot

Anthropic’s latest models, Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4, are now generally available in GitHub Copilot. Claude Opus 4 is Anthropic’s most powerful model yet, excelling at complex problem solving and powering frontier AI agents. Claude Sonnet 4 is the successor to the developer-loved Claude Sonnet 3.7. It’s ideal for coding workflows, with a good balance across performance and practicality. Both models are hybrid thinking models, capable of extended thinking with tool use and logical summaries. Both models support the vision capability, so you can chat about images. Just remember that vision support is still in public preview.

Availability in GitHub Copilot

Claude Sonnet 4 will be made available to all paid GitHub Copilot plans, while Opus 4 will be made available to Copilot Enterprise and Pro+ plans. You can access both models in GitHub Copilot Chat on github.com, VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Eclipse, and in GitHub Mobile through the chat model picker.

What’s special about these models?

Claude Opus 4 is Anthropic’s most powerful model to date:

• Excels at complex problem-solving challenges
• Powers frontier AI agents with sophisticated reasoning

Claude Sonnet 4 builds on the developer-favorite Claude Sonnet 3.7:

• Perfectly balanced for coding workflows
• Optimized for performance and practicality

Enabling access

Copilot Enterprise administrators will need to enable access to these models through a new policy in Copilot settings. As an administrator, you can verify availability by checking your individual Copilot settings and confirming that the policy is set to enabled for the specific model. Once enabled, you’ll see the model in the Copilot Chat model selector in your IDE, mobile app, and on github.com.

To learn more, see pricing documentation and get started with Copilot today.

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