GitHub makes OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra generally available in Copilot
GitHub says GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI's lower-cost model for agentic coding and terminal work, is now generally available in Copilot. Here is the price picture.
GitHub announced on October 26 that OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra is generally available in Copilot. GitHub says the model is "designed for everyday agentic coding and terminal work at a lower cost than GPT-6.1 Sol."
It is open to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users. You pick it in the model picker in VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, the Copilot app, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode and Eclipse. Rollout is gradual, so it may not be in your picker yet. On Business and Enterprise, new models switch on automatically unless an admin turned off the global default or disabled this one.
The performance claim is thin. GitHub says that in early testing Terra solved "noticeably more terminal and C# coding tasks" than GPT-5.6 Terra. The announcement gives no task counts and no benchmark.
The price is thinner. Terra is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing, and one AI credit equals $0.01. GitHub's pricing table does not list a rate for GPT-6.1 Terra. For reference, GPT-5.6 Terra runs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $12.00 output at the default tier (up to 272K input tokens). GPT-6.1 Sol runs $2.00 input and $10.00 output.
My take: lower cost than GPT-6.1 Sol is a claim, not a rate card. Until the number shows up, budget accordingly.
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Sources
- GPT-6.1 Terra in GitHub Copilot, The GitHub Blog
- Models and pricing for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Docs, GitHub Docs
Meanwhile at the anchor desk
A brand-new OpenAI model, across editors including Xcode and Eclipse, at a lower cost than GPT-6.1 Sol? Darlings, that is distribution on a golden scale.
"Noticeably more" tasks solved, against GPT-5.6 Terra, with no count and no benchmark. I would like the denominator before the applause.
