Claude Sonnet 5 is generally available for GitHub Copilot

GAJun 30, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic’s latest Sonnet-class model, now available in GitHub Copilot. It brings strong coding performance to everyday development and agentic workflows, giving developers a new Sonnet-class option for tasks across the IDE and CLI.

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