# Microsoft AI — MAI-Code-1.1-Flash: Better, faster, at a quarter of the cost

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-08-11
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-code-1-1-flash-br-better-faster-at-a-quarter-of-the-cost
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8416-mai-code-1-1-flash-better-faster-at-a-quarter-of-the-cost
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Code-1.1-Flash

Microsoft AI released MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, an updated coding model that produces higher quality code with 25% greater token efficiency and at a quarter of the cost compared to the previous version, now in production in GitHub Copilot.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-code-1-1-flash-br-better-faster-at-a-quarter-of-the-cost:

> MAI-Code-1.1-Flash produces higher quality code, at 25% greater token efficiency, and at a quarter of the cost compared to the model we launched in June at Microsoft Build.

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