A GitHub, owned by Microsoft, just announced a free level of your Copilot of coding of artificial intelligence (AI) available in your editor US Code, marking a major shift in the accessibility of AI coding as the company celebrates a milestone of 150 million developers on the platform.
ADVERTISING
New details
- The new free tier offers 2.000 monthly code completions and 50 chat messages, integrated directly into VS Code and the GitHub dashboard.
- Users can access Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI's GPT-4o, with premium models (o1, Gemini 1.5 Pro) remaining exclusive to paid tiers.
- Free features include multi-file editing, terminal assistance, and project-wide context awareness for AI suggestions.
- GitHub also announced its milestone of 150 million developers, up from 100 million by early 2023.
Why does it matter
GitHub has big ambitions to reach 1 billion developers globally, and removing the price barriers would go a long way toward bringing in the masses and preventing existing users from migrating to other free options on the market.
The future of AI coding is increasingly looking more like a free, fundamental utility than a premium tool.
Read also
