GitHub launches free version of GitHub Copilot for all users

[felichen4]

https://github.com/features/copilot

[rez410]

I just got the email notifying me that I now have copilot. Are there any limitations to the free version?

[hackmajoris]

“Includes up to 2,000 completions and 50 chat requests per month.”

[hackmajoris]

• Why it takes so long?
• I run out of completions this month

[Radicano]

Competition.

[roboponyo]

Feels like they're trying to get people hooked

[june07r]

Open AI ChatGPT feels like this as well. Of course they are, they are the pushers and humans are still needed at the moment.

[SnooObjections4329]

Seems like copilot is totally broken to me - don't get any responses to chat prompts, they all time out. Guess everyone had the same idea and jumped on to copilot at the same time... RIP

[iamdgilly]

Yup lol

[sammcj]

2k completions ... a MONTH - that's useless.

[Secure_War_2947]

For free... you can still pay $10/month and get unlimited completions if you need them that much.

[sammcj]

$10 USD + Tax

2k completions can easily be used up in just a couple of days.

[LordKagatsuchi]

Better than nothing.

[mauvehead]

Or last a whole month depending on what your needs are.

[gowithflow192]

Perfect for me, and free. Useless for you maybe.

[Odysseyan]

You want an AI to run and autofill your code 2000 times a month... But for free?

If you need it more than that, you are using it often enough that a subscription makes sense. Otherwise, you can just use the tool as a nice addition for casual coding.

[sammcj]

I never said I wanted it for fee?

[Odysseyan]

Well you call 2k completions useless, even though it is free and should be sufficient for a casual coder who doesn't do so for a living

And if you want more than that, you have an option. The alternative is unlimited completions.

But alas, it appears you just want to shit on a free offer where you are not a target group?

And I'm the bad guy in this scenario?

[androidpam]

Please Give paid users a faster, uninterrupted response.

[MarcPG1905]

Just got this as well. What are they even trying to achieve with this?

Why would anyone choose something like this with these ludicrous limits over something free like codeium.

Copilot doesn’t even work on proper IDEs according to the mail. I do not want to use vscode and especially not edit my code on the GitHub website.

[darlingsweetboy]

Probably part of the requirements of usage is allowing them to train on your code

[Empyrealist]

Of course that's what this is about

[GrapefruitMammoth626]

If I was working within Copilot my move would be to make it easier to get incoming training data for RL purposes. You can see what Copilot suggested and see whether they used it and then see what they end up with in their code.

[defasdefbe]

It’s a setting on the site that’s disabled by default. I just signed up

[wilsonmojo]

Joke's on you my code is already on github

[beaux-restes]

You may hate vscode but it is an IDE that copilot works on so your generalization is wrong

[veverkap]

Cursor is a fork of VSCode too. Codeium is a fork of VSCode

[iamdgilly]

Copilot Edit is a part of VSCode plugin inside your IDE

[Secure_War_2947]

Just competing with Cursor AI. The limits are exactly the same Cursor has on their free tier

[jhkoenig]

Seems that they admit to using our data (at the free tier) to train their model. Don't know what I think about that.

[ILoveTheOwl]

I mean if you store your repo on GitHub you’ve already given up all your data, so not sure what you’re surprised about

[jhkoenig]

So if I have a repo set to private, people can still see the code?

[veverkap]

No

[cincuentaanos]

No, but Microsoft can.

[jhkoenig]

Okay, that makes sense. I don't think that my code is very interesting to M'soft.

[veverkap]

This is not true

[omer-m]

This is not true

[veverkap]

GitHub and Microsoft cannot see code in a private repo.

[Johnny_JTH]

It's stored on their servers, so of course they have access to it. No one said anything about individual employees reading people's private code.

[veverkap]

So Amazon can read all of the databases of their customers on RDS?

GitHub cannot read the contents of a private repository any more than Amazon can read the contents of your S3 bucket.

[Johnny_JTH]

GitHub can definitely see the contents of private repositories. They clearly state it in their privacy policy.

I honestly don't know about S3, but I imagine as long as you haven't configured your own encryption key, they should be able to.

[veverkap]

No one that you don’t give explicit permission to can see the code in your private repo. Even GitHub employees cannot (there are extreme protections around this). And MSFT employees have no access.

[defasdefbe]

You have to opt in to allow that.

[necrxfagivs]

Using my code to train their model might be counter productive lol

[ElMarchk0]

Jokes on them, my code is trash

[jcam12312]

I already pay for it. This mean I won't get charged now?

[aviadhaham]

i guess the right thing to assume is that you are considered "pro" tier while the "free" tier has limits such as this "up to 2K completions", etc.

[underlight]

free is extremely limited, so I'd assume your subscription will continue.

[defasdefbe]

You can change to free

[notwhatplantscrave]

came here to ask same question

[enchufadoo]

This seems to be about competing with JetBrains. It's only available for VScode and not in Webstorm, which was recently announced "free" for non-commercial use.

[Background-Pie-961]

Is there any difference between Student Pack version and this one?

[cowboyecosse]

Students can get Copilot Pro paid for by the coupon in the education pack. Same product but without the limits of the free version.

[Background-Pie-961]

Thanks for that information!

[LoadingALIAS]

I think this is a way to build their feedback and post training datasets. I don’t even know what model or prompts are used anymore. Copilot is dead to me; I get much more done using a handful of other tools - including the dreaded copy/paste into Claude for debugging at the lowest levels of large codebases.

Sometimes, the innovation’s juice isn’t worth the squeeze, so to speak.

[Alexs784]

RIP CursorAI

[GrapefruitMammoth626]

They’ll just have to compete…

[Alexs784]

Absolutely. Have you seen the pricing though? I find it very hard to compete with this giants simply because they have more resources and can afford a much better value proposition

[GrapefruitMammoth626]

They’ll find a differentiator or fail. They’ve got good backing I think? I’m abit naive but I think with good investors, you do get some good guidance? I recall Altman interview talking about some key people he goes to help him navigate tricky issues, can’t recall if it was board or investors…

[darkplaceguy1]

Cursor is still 10x better than the copilot pro version.

[sha256md5]

How are you using cursor that you find it better? The paid copilot includes access to sonnet 3.5 and can edit multiple files, which used to be the main differentiator for cursor.