Great news for developers as GitHub announces a new free tier of Copilot upon reaching 150M users

Github, the web-based platform to store, share, and collaborate codes for software developers, unveils a new free tier of Copilot for Virtual Studio (VS) code developers. It already provides developers with free private repos, free minutes for GitHub Actions, and GitHub Codespaces from earlier times. With the all-new free tier, GitHub users can opt for either Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT-4o model.

Under the free tier, developers get 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month upon signing in with one’s personal GitHub account.

Today’s announcement is particularly monumental for India. With GitHub Copilot Free, India can accelerate the timeline forward to becoming the world’s largest developer community. But only if we make it happen. ???????? https://t.co/OWlEHm37OC
— Thomas Dohmke (@ashtom) December 18, 2024

Benefits for Developers

Developers can ask a coding question, explain existing code, or have the copilot find a bug in their innovation. Regarding capabilities, it can execute edits across multiple files. Regarding features and extensions, the developers can access Copilot’s third-party agents or build their extensions.

Availability

Copilot Chat is now directly available from the GitHub dashboard and it works with Copilot Free, for the developers to start using it today, the blog post stated.

Milestone reached

Finally, the great news is coupled with another great news for the community of developers. The platform, GitHub, has crossed 150 Million users across the world.

Also Read: Perplexity acquires Carbon, all set to enable integration with Notion and Docs

Some important reactions

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

GitHub Copilot Free for VS Code has arrived. pic.twitter.com/DVChR5Shub
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) December 18, 2024

GitHib Community- tweet

GitHub Copilot is free for VS Code now! Finally, an AI coworker who won’t judge me for googling ‘how to center a div’ for the 100th time. pic.twitter.com/xBohh8lMsw
— GitHub Projects Community (@GithubProjects) December 19, 2024