Github Copilot is Now Free for Github and VS Code Users

Github is one of most widely collaborative platform for developers. It provides free code hosting for open source projects. It also provides free minutes for GitHub Actions and GitHub Codespaces, and free package and release storage. 

Github Coplot is your pair programmer, it helps you to write and review the code. It can create tests and docs for you. It is a multi modal platform, you can choose  Claude 3.5 Sonnet, o1, and GPT 4o. It can edit files and provides suggestions at real time. Naming functions and variables is the hardest and Copilot can provide nice suggestions. You can also speak with Copilot using your microphone using VS Code Speech Extension. 

Github Copilot is now available for free to VS Code users. You can enable it from here.

What you going to get in free their

2000 code suggestions and 50 chat messages a month. You will get context-aware suggestions tailored to your VS Code workspace and GitHub projects. Using  Copilot Chat, you can ask questions and refactor, debug, document, and explain code. 

You can select between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT 4o.

Use Copilot Edits to make changes to multiple files you’re working with.

Use third-party extensions to conduct web searches via Perplexity, access information from Stack Overflow, and more.

This is really a great news for developers and organizations. Github Copilot can certainly improve the productivity for developers.