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 out there to the 150M builders on GitHub,” Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, wrote in a put up.
The free tier gives entry to 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages monthly. 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 gives entry to most of the identical options paid tiers have, reminiscent of debugging assist, code explanations, the power to show feedback into code, inline chat, commit message era, and extra.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t embody some superior options like the power to connect a information base to speak or set pointers for code evaluations, 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.
