GitHub is making its Copilot available for free through Visual Studio Code. The free version includes 2,000 additions and 50 chat messages per month.
GitHub has double happy new to report. The developer platform proclaims in a blog that it has passed the 150 million user mark. To celebrate, it is now making its virtual coding assistant GitHub Copilot available for free.
The free version of Copilot can be found in GitHub’s development dashboard. You just need to log in with your account to get started with the AI assistant. The underlying model is Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic or GPT-4o from OpenAI. Included in the free account are up to 2,000 code additions and 50 chat messages per month.
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Since the launch of GitHub Copilot in the summer of 2021, the AI assistant was only available with a paid subscription, except for academics and students. Subscriptions to GitHub Copilot start from ten dollars a month. With a paid subscription, you have no limits on GitHub Copilot usage and also have more choice in which model you want to chat with, including Google Gemini 1.5 and OpenAI o1.
GitHub Copilot was one of the first GenAI applications even before the technology was hype. GitHub Copilot allows you to chat to ask questions about your code, and the tool can also find and correct errors in your code.