In October, Google launched Gemini Code Assist, a paid tool for businesses. Now, the company is announcing the launch of a free AI coding assistant for individuals worldwide. The tool is currently in public preview and supports all publicly available programming languages.
In October, Google launched Gemini Code Assist, a paid tool for businesses. Now, the company is announcing the launch of a free AI coding assistant for individuals worldwide. The tool is currently in public preview and supports all publicly available programming languages.
“While organizations with large resources are empowering their engineering teams with the latest AI capabilities, this level of tooling has not always been available to students, hobbyists, freelancers, and startups. To bridge this gap, today we are announcing the public preview for individuals of Gemini Code Assist, a free version of our AI-powered coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist,” the blog post says .
Gemini Code Assist for individuals is available worldwide and is powered by Gemini 2.0. It supports all open-source programming languages and is optimized for coding. The company has refined the Gemini 2.0 model for developers by analyzing and testing a large number of real-world coding examples.
“As a result, the quality of AI-generated recommendations in Gemini Code Assist has become better than ever before, and it is now ready to solve many daily tasks faced by developers, both amateurs and startup developers,” Google notes.
While other popular free coding assistants have limited usage limits, typically only 2,000 code completions per month, Google offers up to 180,000 code completions per month with Gemini Code Assist.
“The ceiling is so high that even the most dedicated professional developers will have a hard time exceeding it,” the company says.
Gemini Code Assist for individual users comes with a large token context window with support for up to 128,000 incoming tokens in chat. This large context window allows developers to work with large files and customize Gemini Code Assist to have a broader understanding of their local codebases.
Today, Google is offering Gemini Code Assist for GitHub to provide “free AI-powered code reviews for both public and private repositories.” The tool supports custom style guidelines and can “detect stylistic issues and errors and automatically suggest code changes and fixes.”
Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDE also have Code Assist for creating code snippets, debugging existing code, and asking questions about how things work.
