Google Launches Free AI Coding Assistant with 180,000 Code Completions/Month

Google has introduced Gemini Code Assist for Individuals, a free version of its AI-driven code completion and assistance tool. Additionally, the company launched Gemini Code Assist for GitHub, an intelligent code review agent that automatically detects bugs and provides suggestions within GitHub.

Code Assist for Individuals enables developers to communicate in natural language with a Google AI model that has the ability to access and modify their codebase through a messaging window.  The Gemini Code Assist for Individuals tool, which is similar to the widely used Copilot tool on GitHub, has the capability to resolve errors, complete sections of code, or elucidate portions of the codebase that are illogical.

Google’s AI coding assistant employs a modified version of the company’s Gemini 2.0 AI model that has been optimised for coding applications.  Gemini Code Assist for Individuals is compatible with a variety of popular programming languages and can be integrated with popular coding environments, including VS Code and JetBrains, through extensions.

It is important to note that Code Assist for Individuals provides 180,000 code completions per month, which is 90 times the utilisation limit of the free GitHub Copilot plan (2,000 code completions per month).  Additionally, Code Assist for Individuals includes 240 communication requests per day, which is nearly five times the number of requests provided by the free GitHub Copilot plan.

Google claims that the context window of the model that powers Code Assist for Individuals is 128,000 tokens, which is more than four times the size of the competition’s.  That implies that the model can absorb a greater amount of code in a single prompt, thereby enabling it to reason over more intricate codebases.

Developers can access the free public preview of Gemini Code Assist for Individuals from Tuesday onwards.  Gemini Code Assist for GitHub is a tool that uses automated problem detection and offers supplementary counsel for GitHub pull requests.

While advancing its market combat against Microsoft and GitHub for developer tools, Google is introducing these tools.  Ryan Salva, who had previously served as the team leader of GitHub Copilot, was recruited by Google over seven months ago to oversee its developer infrastructure initiatives.

Google launches its Gemini Code Assist free AI coding assistant service in order to attract new developers who are embarking on their first professions, with the expectation that they will transition to business plans in the future.

For approximately one year, Google has been promoting the enterprise version of Gemini Code Assist to business clients. The organisation announced in December that its AI coding assistant would integrate its capabilities with GitLab, GitHub, and Google Docs. The enterprise plans of Gemini Code Assist include features that facilitate the integration of Google Cloud services and the customisation of administrator-managed repositories. Furthermore, these programs incorporate audit log capabilities.