Google's Gemini Code Assist Launches with Advanced Features and Free Tier Limits

Google has officially launched Gemini Code Assist during its I/O keynote, making it available to individual developers and GitHub users. This tool plugs into IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains to offer real-time suggestions, code explanations, and bug fixes, backed by the Gemini 2.5 model.

Google isn’t holding back on usage either. The free tier gives developers 180,000 code completions per month and 240 chat requests a day. That’s a massive jump over what GitHub Copilot offers, and Google’s making it clear it wants to dominate this space.

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Gemini Code Assist supports multiple languages and works with a 128,000-token context window. That means it can analyze a lot more of your code at once, useful when you’re working across files or large codebases.

Enterprise plans are coming soon with support for up to 2 million tokens via Vertex AI. Google also introduced a GitHub-specific version of Code Assist that reviews pull requests, flags bugs, and recommends improvements automatically.

With these features, Google is turning Gemini into a serious contender in the AI coding assistant race. Copilot isn’t alone anymore—and Gemini looks ready to compete hard.