Github launched a free tier of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbot Copilot on Wednesday. The platform’s Copilot is aimed at coding-related tasks and is equipped with several third-party agents, extensions and features such as multi-file editing. The free version of the chatbot has higher rate limits in code completion and chat messages compared to the paid version. GitHub Copilot Free will also not include the Gemini AI model. Microsoft owns coding and file hosting platforms also announced a milestone of 150 million registered users.
GitHub launches free co-pilot level for developers
In a blog post, the coding platform announced the free level of secondary copper. So far, Copilot offers only paid subscriptions starting at $10 (approximately Rs 850), although free access to verified students, teachers and open source maintainers. This new layer will be available to all 150 million registered developers.
GitHub Copilot Free will automatically integrate into the Visual Studio code platform and provide access to 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month. One thing to note here is that every code suggestion made by a chatbot involves completion, not just accepted code.
Earlier this year, the company announced multi-model support in Copilot, allowing users to do it from Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT-4O, O1-Preview and O1-Mini models. choose. However, with the free level of the co-pilot layer, users can only access 3.5 sonnets or GPT-4O.
Apart from these limitations, developers will have full access to all other features, third-party agents and extensions. In addition, Github also gets Copilot chat directly from the platform’s dashboard, which also offers free tiers.
With GitHub Copilot, developers can use AI for code description, debugging, bing-Path-Path-Pater web requests, pull requests, multi-file editing in VS code, integration with private code bases, custom instructions, and more.
Launched in 2021, Github Copilot is Microsoft’s first AI-powered platform with the Copilot brand. The tech giant invested in OpenAI and established a partnership just a few months later.
