Gemini Code Assist is now available free for everyone

In December, GitHub, the world's most popular development platform, reached 150 million developers. To commemorate this achievement, GitHub Copilot was made free for all VS Code users, including features such as chat and code completions, multi-file editing, multi-model selection, third-party extension compatibility, and more.

The free edition of GitHub Copilot has a few limitations, including support for up to 2000 real-time code suggestions and 50 messages and interactions per month. Google announced today that Code Assist, its AI-based developer assistant, is now free and allows for nearly limitless code completion.

Gemini Code Assist, powered by Gemini 2.0, is now available to everyone worldwide, and it supports all public-domain programming languages. Google claims that it refined the Gemini 2.0 model for developers based on real-world coding scenarios.

More crucially, Gemini Code Assist now provides up to 180,000 code completions each month. It has a huge token context window and can support up to 128,000 input tokens in chat. In addition to code completion, Gemini Code Assist can help with code reviews.

The public preview of Gemini Code Assist for GitHub enables AI-powered code reviews for both public and private repositories. Gemini Code Assist extensions are available for both Visual Studio Code and JetBrains.

Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director, Product Management at Google, wrote the following on the new free Code Assist launch:

And with the most generous usage limit of 90 times more code completions per month than other popular free coding assistants, coders of all types can reap the rewards. If you’re a student working on a time-sensitive project, you won’t find your coding project suddenly stalled because you’ve hit a cap, or have to worry about chat limits stopping your pair-programming sessions.

To use this new Code Assist, developers only need a personal Gmail account and no credit card. Last year, Google released an enterprise version of Code Assist. Gemini Code Assist Enterprise offers productivity measurements, personalised AI solutions based on private source code repositories, connections with Google Cloud services such as BigQuery, and more.