Google's enterprise-focused AI coding tool, Gemini Code Assist, is now accessible to independent coders worldwide in a free form. To make coding helpers "with the latest AI capabilities" more accessible for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and startups, Google announced today that Gemini Code Assist for individuals is debuting in public preview.
Google senior director of product management Ryan J. Salva stated, "Now anyone can more conveniently learn, create code snippets, debug, and modify their existing applications — all without having to toggle between different windows for help or copy and paste information from disconnected sources." "We wanted to offer something more generous, as other well-known free coding assistants have restrictive usage limits, typically only 2,000 code completions per month."
That seems especially directed at GitHub Copilot, Gemini Code Assist's closest rival, which likewise offers a free user tier with a monthly cap of 2,000 code completions and 50 Copilot Chat messages. On the other hand, Google offers up to 180,000 code completions every month, which it says is "so high that even today's most dedicated professional developers would be hard-pressed to exceed it."
Google's Gemini 2.0 artificial intelligence model powers Gemini Code Assist for individuals, just like the enterprise version. It can build whole code blocks, finish code as you write, and offer general coding help using a chatbot interface. The free coding tool supports all publicly available programming languages and may be deployed in development environments such as Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and JetBrains.
Gemini Code Assist may be programmed by developers using natural language. For example, developers can ask the coding chatbot to "build me a simple HTML form with fields for name, email, and message, and then add a submit button." Up to 128,000 chat input tokens—the quantity of text (tokens) that can be processed or "remembered" while producing a response—are supported at this time, along with 38 languages.
Although the free Individual tier of Gemini Code Assist appears to be rather comprehensive, it lacks some of the more sophisticated business-focused features found in the Standard and Enterprise versions. You must utilize Google's premium tiers if you want productivity metrics, integrations with Google Cloud services like BigQuery, or the ability to personalize replies using private code data sources.
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