Code repository platform GitHub has announced a free version of the Copilot code completion tool for Visual Studio Code (VS Code). The company said the tool is now integrated within VS code and can be accessed with a personal GitHub account.
The free version has some restrictions. Free users have a monthly limit of 2000 code completions and 50 chat messages. Copilot Free will let you select between Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model or OpenAI's GPT-4o. Free users will have access to third-party agents or the option to build their own extensions.
Copilot Chat, GitHub's AI assistant, will also support Copilot Free. Besides the announcement of the new free plan, GitHub announced that it had passed 150 million developers on the platform last week.
"AI represents our best path to enabling a GitHub with one billion developers. There should be no barrier to entry for experiencing the joy of creating software," GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke told TechCrunch.
Dohmke said he expects more students to use the free version as well. Previously, developers had to pay a minimum of $10 (€9.61 or £7.91) monthly for the Pro plan. The company still offers a free Pro plan for GitHub Education-verified teachers and students. Maintainers of popular code repositories can also get verified for the free plan.
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