Last year, Google launched the popular AI coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, as a paid tool for businesses. Now, the company is offering free AI-assisted coding for developers around the globe. Today, in a blog post, Google introduced a new and free version of the Gemini AI code assistant tool.
Google has announced a free version of the Gemini AI coding tool for developers
Dubbed Gemini Code Assist for Individuals, the free AI coding tool only requires developers to have a personal Google account. It’s worth noting that an unspecified Gemini 2.0 model that caters to code-related tasks now powers Gemini Code Assist.
The free version of the Gemini AI coding tool offers a considerably larger context window and monthly code completion cap. Google notes that it is capped at 180,000 code completions per month. If you are a developer, you can make 240 chat requests per day with the free version. Plus, the model powering the free AI coding assistant offers up to 128,000 tokens. That’s four times more than what the competition offers, according to the company.
What’s nice is that the free Gemini AI coding tool works with all programming languages in the public domain. While Google continues to offer more powerful, paid versions of its AI coding tool, this one is suitable for budget-conscious developers.
The free version now also supports various IDEs
Notably, Google’s free Gemini AI coding tool is now compatible with Visual Studio Code, GitHub, or JetBrains. Not to forget, it already has support for Google-backed IDEs like Android Studio and Firebase.
The support for different IDEs will enable developers to “conveniently learn, create code snippets, debug and modify their existing applications — all without needing to toggle between different windows for help or to copy and paste information from disconnected sources,” the company explains in the blog post.
Google has also announced that starting today, GitHub integration for the Gemini AI coding tool is also entering public preview. This means that developers can review code a lot more easily than they used to.