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Claude Opus 5 Lands in GitHub Copilot on July 24 — Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise, Billed at Provider API List Price and Off by Default for Admins
GitHub's changelog dated 2026-07-24 announces Claude Opus 5 rolling out gradually across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the Copilot cloud agent, the Copilot app, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse for Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise. GitHub cites early testing showing strong agentic-coding performance on autonomous code changes and regression verification, and 'reducing unnecessary execution overhead.' Two operational details matter: it is charged at provider API list price under usage-based billing rather than a flat premium multiplier, and Enterprise/Business admins must explicitly enable it in Copilot settings before anyone sees it.
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