GitHub has introduced a free tier of GitHub Copilot to broaden the platform’s attain to extra builders.
“We couldn’t be extra excited to make Copilot accessible to the 150M builders on GitHub,” Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, wrote in a submit.
The free tier supplies entry to 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per 30 days. It’s built-in into VS Code and permits the developer to decide on between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT-4o mannequin.
It supplies entry to lots of the identical options paid tiers have, similar to debugging assist, code explanations, the flexibility to show feedback into code, inline chat, commit message technology, and extra.
Nonetheless, it doesn’t embrace some superior options like the flexibility to connect a data base to talk or set pointers for code critiques, or many administration, safety, and governance options.
The corporate additionally clarified that college students, educators, and open supply maintainers will nonetheless retain their free entry to limitless Copilot Professional accounts.
