Microsoft Integrates a Free Version of Its ‘Copilot’ Coding AI Into GitHub, VS Code

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Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday Free version Its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool will now also ship by default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code editor. Until now, most developers had to pay a monthly fee starting at $10, and only verified students, teachers, and open source maintainers had free access…

The free version has some limitations and is suitable for occasional users rather than the main work on large projects. For example, developers on the free plan can access 2,000 code completions per month, and as a GitHub spokesperson told me, every Copilot code suggestion will count toward this limit, not just accepted suggestions. And GitHub Recently added Due to the ability to switch between different base models, users of the free plan are limited to Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI’s GPT-4o. (Paid plans also include Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro and OpenAI’s o1-preview and -mini.) For Copilot Chat, the number of chat messages is limited to 50, but beyond that, the free service doesn’t have any major limitations. Developers will still have access to all Copilot extensions and capabilities.

The free Copilot SKU is available in a variety of editors, including VS Code, Visual Studio and JetBrains, as well as GitHub.com.
Announcements from GitHub End with “Happy coding!” And the service is called “GitHub Copilot Free”. But TechCrunch points out that there are already reports from companies such as Amazon Q Developeras well as from companies like Tabnin and dig up (formerly Codium) — They usually offer a free tier. But beyond that, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke told TechCrunch, “With Copilot Free, we are returning to the freemium model and laying the foundation for something even bigger: artificial intelligence represents the most powerful tool we can offer GitHub’s 1 billion developers. “The best way.”

“There should be no barriers to experiencing the joy of building software. Six years after being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub is indeed still GitHub, and we’re doing our thing.”

Or, as GitHub CEO Satya Nadella said in a speech Video posted on LinkedIn“The joy of coding is back! We look forward to bringing the same experience to more people around the world.”