Google Gemini’s AI coding tool is now free for individual users
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Summary
Google has released a freemium version of its AI coding assist tool, Gemini Code Assist, for solo developers; it is now available globally.
The new tool is designed to help students, hobbyists, freelancers and startups write code by providing them with access to an AI chatbot.
Developers can use natural language to ask the chatbot to generate lines of code in any of the 38 languages it currently supports.
While the new individual version of the software is free, Google also offers a standard and enterprise version that offer different levels of functionality; the premium versions allow users to customise responses using private code data sources.
The new release directly challenges Microsoft’s free coding assist tool, GitHub Copilot, which is itself limited to 2,000 code completions per month.