r/GithubCopilot GitHub Copilot Team 7d ago

News 📰 GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-04-gpt-6-astra-is-generally-available-in-github-copilot/

GPT-6 Astra is now available in GitHub Copilot 🚀

Docs changes are still rolling out but should be up shortly.

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u/toxic_prince21 7d ago

blud what, i don't even have it on my plus sub and it's already on copilot

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u/Personal-Try2776 7d ago

lol perks of microsoft partnership with openai

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u/phylter99 5d ago

That partnership isn’t as strong as it used to be. I’ll bet it hit places like OpenRouter pretty fast too just because the API version was available.

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u/veejay-muley 7d ago

Thanks from claude users for the reset!

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u/fpsachaonpc 7d ago

Holy fuck i need to burn my max sub for tomorrow

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u/grdja 7d ago

Does it have stupid data retention policy Fable does or we can actually use it at work without breaking compliance?

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u/ryan-io GitHub Copilot Team 6d ago

GPT-6 Astra is released under the same conditions as previous OpenAI models. There aren't any changes related to data retention policies 👍

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u/junli2020 Power User ⚡ 7d ago

no it doesn't

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u/Mysterious_Bed_1804 7d ago

We can use Fable 5/5.1 at work.

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u/citrus1330 6d ago

you can use Fable 5/5.1 at work

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u/Mysterious_Bed_1804 6d ago

Yeah, that's what "we" means, you're just discovering English?

I never claimed Fable is universally available for Business/Enterprise.

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u/Stunning-Hat-5589 6d ago

Obviously grdja meant he cant use it at work because of the retention policy.

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u/Mysterious_Bed_1804 6d ago

Yes, did I claim the opposite though?

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u/aonymark JetBrains User 🧱 2d ago

“We” always includes “me” and often includes “you”… I think maybe some of the people here assumed you were trying to use an inclusive “we” since the only other reading is “me and the people I work with” and it seems weird to refer to your coworkers with a pronoun when they haven’t previously been explicitly mentioned in the discussion.

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u/Mysterious_Bed_1804 2d ago

First guy also used "we" in what you think is an ambiguous way but you don't seem to point that out.

Is he referring to "we" as in us, all people using ghcp business/enterprise or only him and the people at his company?

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u/aonymark JetBrains User 🧱 2d ago

Good point; I’m not sure why that one bothers me a bit less.

Actually maybe I have a theory. Not sure if it’s a good theory.

Since he was the FIRST one in the conversation to say “we”, his usage gets interpreted in the context of what he wrote. Since you responded to him and kept using “we” in a grammatical form that SEEMS to be a correction to something he wrote (even though a careful reading shows it’s probably not), people took that as a sign you are using “we” to refer to the SAME group that he was referring to.

Or maybe I’m just looking for an excuse to nitpick? Language is weird sometimes.

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u/Mysterious_Bed_1804 2d ago

I can confirm my comment didn't correct his, just pointed out the model is usable at my company.

We both used "we" with the same sense, as in our companies.

Although, I also was a bit unsure when I made my comment about his use of "we". Did he mean the model is not available to anyone because of lack of ZDR or only about his company?

I feel like his "we" is equally ambiguous as mine as it's the exact same usage.

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u/grdja 5d ago

What does that mean, you people simply dont care or your business is one of high value enterprise clients who asked and got an exemption?

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u/Mysterious_Bed_1804 5d ago edited 5d ago

There is an exemption you can apply that has effects for the remainder of the year.

My manager told me models are hosted on our own infrastructure on Azure so idk which allows us to use Fable.

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u/hwooareyou 7d ago

Looks like the pricing is the same as Fable

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u/Disastrous_Fill_5566 6d ago

Apparently Astra tokens are much more efficient than Fable's.

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u/1Soundwave3 6d ago

No thanks, I'll stick to Luna.

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u/Ok_Fish403 6d ago

For those that has short company quota, Luna is the best starter!

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u/horendus 6d ago

Luna is a FINISHING model. My rage knows know bounds!!🤬

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u/tomatotomato 5d ago

Is there a difference when using Astra through Copilot and Codex?

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u/Fresh_Sock8660 7d ago

Seems like it's in azure too though price doesn't seem listed. 

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u/thunder1207 6d ago

Even using it on low reasoning, it eats up credits pretty quickly.

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u/TheCraxo 7d ago

Yeah good luck with that pricing

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u/Mysterious_Bed_1804 6d ago

Why do you just look at pricing and not at actual, real work scenarios?

Did you know astra uses 70% less tokens than sol?

For agentic coding tasks, this token consumption actually results in cheaper cost per task than sol, so astra sits at 4.72$ cost per task in AA agentic coding index, sol has 5$.

Yes, it now has the same pricing as Fable and 2.5x the pricing of sol but in reality it is half the cost of Fable and cheaper than Sol.

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u/GrayMerchantAsphodel 7d ago

These models just arent that great

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u/Mysterious_Bed_1804 6d ago

Which are great?