Born as an enterprise-focused AI-based code generation tool, Gemini Code Assist now provides a free tier to individual developers with a limit of 6,000 code completions and 240 chat requests daily.
Google emphasizes that Gemini Code Assist offers the highest free usage limits. It is indeed true that one of the strongest competitors to Code Assist, GitHub Copilot, only gives up to 2,000 code completions free per month. AWS CodeWhisperer also provides a free tier for individuals, apparently with no limits on code completions, but it does not include a chat.
Another feature in Code Assist that Google underlines is its 128,000 token context size. This is significantly less than the 2 million tokens provided in the Standard and Enterprise editions but is still a…