Gemini Pro has a glow-up a few months back, but now Google is specifically targeting developers by offering free access to its AI-coding assistant.
Gemini Code Assist is available now worldwide. Google says it’s a great fit for everyone from hobbyists to startup developers.
The launch also comes with a public preview of Gemini Code Assist for GitHub, which gives developers access to free, AI-powered code reviews “for both public and private repositories.”
What Is Gemini Code Assist?
Built on top of Google’s Gemini 2.0 LLM model, this is a tool optimized for coding. As Google says in a blog announcing the free version, it delivers “practically unlimited capacity” with up to 180,000 code completions per month.
Google adds that the new tool, alongside the integrated access to GitHub reviews, will cut down development time for coders.
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Google adds that this version of Gemini Code Assist “supports all programming languages in the public domain” and has been “fine-tuned” by “analyzing and validating a large number of real-world coding use cases”.
What Does It Offer?
It delivers the same code completion, generation, and chat capabilities that Google says it has been giving its enterprise customers for more than a year, but which are also now available for free in Firebase and Android Studio.
The big pro is the high usage limit and the token context window that delivers up to 128,000 input token support in chat. This means, says Google, that developers don’t need to “toggle between different windows for help or to copy and paste information from disconnected sources.”
The tool also has a chat feature, so Gemini can deal with repetitive steps.
Who Can Access It?
Well, everyone. You can sign up using a personal Gmail account and there is no credit card needed. You can then install Gemini Code Assist in Visual Studio Code, GitHub or JetBrains IDEs.
Google adds that “with a worldwide population of developers forecasted to grow to 57.8 million by 2028, we think AI should be available to them whether they can pay for it or not, so they can start building with what are quickly becoming the standard digital tools of the future.”
There are also feedback options in the IDE or in GitHub so developers can share their thoughts with the Gemini team. Google suggest though that “people interested in advanced functionality such as productivity metrics, customized AI responses based on private source code repositories, or integrations with Google Cloud services” might want to look at Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise.
