GitHub has released a free version of its code-writing tool Copilot, which will now be bundled by default with the Microsoft VS Code editor. Previously, most developers had to pay a monthly subscription fee starting at ten dollars per month.
Developers will have a limit of two thousand code autocompletions per month. In addition, users on the free plan can only use Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic and GPT-4o from OpenAI. Paid plans also include other models, such as Gemini 1.5 Pro from Google.
The number of messages in Copilot Chat is limited to fifty per month, but there are no other significant restrictions. “With Copilot Free, we are returning to our free roots and laying the foundation for something much bigger: AI is our path to building a GitHub with a billion developers,” said GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke.
Copilot will work in various editors, including VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, as well as on GitHub.com. This move opens up opportunities for more developers around the world who want to become more productive in their work.
