GitHub Copilot adds Claude Fable 5.2 as a selectable model
Anthropic's newest flagship lands in the Copilot picker the day it shipped, pitched as solving more tasks in fewer steps than Fable 5.1 across every major editor.
GitHub made Claude Fable 5.2 generally available in Copilot on 9 November, the same day Anthropic released the model itself. It’s selectable from the model picker in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Eclipse, Copilot CLI, the cloud coding agent, the Copilot app, github.com and GitHub Mobile, across Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans.
GitHub says that in early testing, Fable 5.2 solved more tasks than Fable 5.1 while using fewer steps and tool calls, and completed hard tasks that earlier models missed. It’s billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing, with rollout gradual, so it may take a moment to show up in your picker. Eligible enterprises can get zero data retention through the end of the year; otherwise Anthropic retains prompts and outputs by default to run its safety classifiers.
Why it matters: this is the model Anthropic cut 20% in price and sped up by up to 30% yesterday, now reachable from inside the editor most Copilot users already have open, without a separate Anthropic account.
The caveat: “billed at provider list pricing” means checking the per-token rate before switching heavy usage over, since it won’t necessarily match what you pay for GitHub’s own model tiers.