Google has released a free version of its AI programming assistant Gemini Code Assist

Google has released a free version of its AI programming assistant Gemini Code Assist

Google has released a free version of its AI programming assistant Gemini Code Assist

Google’s enterprise-focused artificial intelligence coding tool Gemini Code Assist is now available for free to all users, The Verge reports.

Google offers up to 180,000 code completions per month, and notes that this is “a ceiling so high that even the most dedicated professional developers will struggle to reach it.” In comparison, GitHub Copilot offers 2,000 code completions and 50 Copilot chat messages per month for free.Like the enterprise version, Gemini Code Assist for individuals is powered by Google’s Gemini 2.0 AI model and can generate entire code blocks, complete code as you write, and provide general coding assistance via a chatbot interface. The tool can be installed in the Visual Studio Code IDE, GitHub, and JetBrains. It supports all open-source programming languages.

Developers can interact with Gemini Code Assist using natural language, for example, asking it to create a simple HTML form with fields for name, email, and message, as well as a submit button. The tool currently supports 38 languages, including Ukrainian, and handles up to 128,000 input tokens.