GitHub has launched GitHub Copilot Free, offering entry to a free tier of the AI-based pair programmer by way of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor.
Introduced December 18, Copilot Free offers builders entry to 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages month-to-month. The service requires signing in with a private GitHub account or creating a brand new one. Builders could select between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT-4o fashions. It’s doable to ask coding questions or discover bugs, together with searches throughout a number of information. Builders also can entry Copilot third-party brokers or construct their very own extensions.
Copilot Free is robotically built-in into VS Code. To entry the free tier, VS Code customers can press the Copilot icon on the high of the display and click on the “Register to make use of Copilot for Free” button. This opens an online browser the place builders can check in to GitHub and permit VS Code to connect with their account. VS Code will then robotically set up GitHub Copilot. GitHub is launching Copilot Free in response to having handed 150 million builders on the GitHub platform.
