Introducing GitHub Copilot Free

[Akash1134]

We’re thrilled to announce the GitHub Copilot Free plan! It’s now easier than ever for developers to explore the power of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and directly on GitHub. 🎉

By signing in with your personal GitHub account, you’ll gain 2000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month—enough to experience how Copilot can transform the way you code.

Here’s what you can try today:

• Accelerate your development: Let Copilot complete your code with speed and accuracy.
• Smarter edits across projects: Simplify complex edits across multiple files with Copilot Edits.
• Flexible models at your fingertips: Start with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and find the best fit for your workflow.
• Tailor your experience: Use Copilot Extensions to customize your development journey.

Start exploring how GitHub Copilot can help you write better, faster code today! Visit our immersive experience and learn more in our announcement blog.

Got questions? Explore our comprehensive FAQs on GitHub Docs.

Copilot Chat in GitHub is now generally available

Wait, there’s more! We’re also excited to announce the General Availability of Copilot Chat on GitHub.com 🚀

Your valuable insights during the public preview played a key role in refining and improving this feature. Got more feedback on the GA release? We’d love to hear it! Share your thoughts and ideas in our dedicated discussion.

[AaronDewes]

I just got a random popup "You reached your monthly completion limit" when I opened up my IDE (WebStorm). Also happens on RustRover, so presumably all IntelliJ IDEs.

I am using Copilot Pro. Everything works fine, but this seems to be a bug.

Plugin version: 1.5.29.7524

[kategengler]

I am seeing the same on RubyMine

[iamcjwilliams]

@AaronDewes @kategengler We’ve identified an issue affecting complimentary access to GitHub Copilot Pro for students, teachers and maintainers. We’re actively working on a fix. You might have seen we introduced a new free tier of GitHub Copilot, but that will not affect your access to Copilot Pro

[schm1dtmac]

How do I disable this? I managed to remove the Home Screen Copilot prompt bar thankfully but I can’t remove the Copilot Free add-on from my GH settings anywhere.

[Green-Sky]

I did not start using copilot, as such, I am unable to remove the /Home Screen crapware/.
Can you please enable the option, even if you are not using copilot?

[karwa]

Yeah I haven’t clicked the “start using copilot” button, but I still want to remove it.

[pa28]

Same as Green-Sky and karwa. Why is it that everyone assumes that we all want generative AI crapware littered throughout the products we use with no way to turn them off? How can we be sure there aren't hidden/unknown side effects? Programming is inherently a deterministic process whereas generative AI is inherently nondeterministic. I really don't want it anywhere near my code.

[Denperidge]

Also replying to be kept up to date. It has a bigger button and takes up more space on the mobile site topbar than notifications or search

[schm1dtmac]

At this time, there isn’t a way to disable Copilot Free in your account, as it is now integrated into the overall GitHub experience. However, if you prefer, you can turn off the dashboard entry point in the Copilot settings.

https://github.com/settings/copilot

Thanks!

Already knew about the dashboard stuff that lets you get rid of the copilot search box, I literally mentioned that in my comment. You guys better add an option for users to disable this entirely and let us 'un-integrate' this crap or else.

[kanidjar]

Hi, i'm getting this error on every Github page.

Oops, something went wrong Copilot is unavailable to you at this time." with an error message of "Trilogy::ProtocolError: 1062: Duplicate entry 'xxxxxx' for key 'copilot_limited_users.index_copilot_limited_users_on_user_id' (trilogy_query_recv)

[babcoccl]

Me too. I got an email with a subject of "You have free access to GitHub Copilot" that said in the body "Access to GitHub Copilot is now included with your GitHub account."

The green "Start using Copilot" button had a link to sendgrid.net, with a long ecoded string that didn't visibly contain my GH username. Gmail says the email was signed by "github.com" so I believe it's legit. But when I get to "https://github.com/github-copilot/signup" it says "Oops, something went wrong Copilot is unavailable to you at this time." with an error message of "Trilogy::ProtocolError: 1062: Duplicate entry 'xxxxxx' for key 'copilot_limited_users.index_copilot_limited_users_on_user_id' (trilogy_query_recv)".

(I redacted the key number, in case that's sensitive.)

The

This^^

I also guess that maybe accounts that received the email were already enrolled so I installed the Github Copilot VSCode extension and clicked the "Start Free Trial" button displayed initially in the extension and was taken to the same error message the email took me to....

[miegir]

Same for me.

[iamcjwilliams]

We’ve identified an issue affecting complimentary access to GitHub Copilot Pro for students, teachers and maintainers. We’re actively working on a fix. You might have seen we introduced a new free tier of GitHub Copilot, but that will not affect your access to Copilot Pro

[DrGonzo79]

We’ve identified an issue affecting complimentary access to GitHub Copilot Pro for students, teachers and maintainers. We’re actively working on a fix. You might have seen we introduced a new free tier of GitHub Copilot, but that will not affect your access to Copilot Pro

I'm receiving the error as well, however I'm not a student, teacher or maintainer...
"Trilogy::ProtocolError: 1062: Duplicate entry '98497366' for key 'copilot_limited_users.index_copilot_limited_users_on_user_id' (trilogy_query_recv)"

[Akash1134]

Issue affecting complimentary access to GitHub Copilot Pro for students, teachers and maintainers has been resolved! Thanks for being patient with us. Continue enjoying your complimentary access to GitHub Copilot Pro!

[olivegold]

Just got the email announcing this. Will keep feedback short: Don't want it. Don't need it. Won't use it.

[wintorez]

Hi, I'm getting this error:

Trilogy::ProtocolError: 1062: Duplicate entry '1269616' for key 'copilot_limited_users.index_copilot_limited_users_on_user_id' (trilogy_query_recv)

[Akash1134]

Hi @wintorez As part of the rollout of Copilot Free some customers with previous trials or subscriptions received incorrect warnings/messages when attempting to sign up.

These should now be resolved as we've deplyoyed some fixes. Please let us know if there's any outstanding issues, and sorry for the trouble.

[nabaxo]

Please let us know if there's any outstanding issues, and sorry for the trouble.

How about the outstanding issue of being able to disable this absolute consummate garbage?

[andrybedo]

Have the fixes deployed completely resolved this error for all users, or could there still be edge cases?

[YakiAttaki]

Mirroring the sentiments others have expressed here:
I am not interested in using AI, I did not ask for this, and if possible I would prefer my account did not have access to Copilot. I don't know who wants this.

[TheSystemGuy1337]

I didn't even ask or consent to the addition to Copilot to my account. They could have at least gave me a pop up that says "Hey, GitHub Copilot is available for your account. Would you like to enable it?" rather than force it down everyone's throat.

GitHub, please don't force features and instead gain written consent to enable them.

[EXHades]

。。。Why？

[Mr-12138]

...为什么？

me too。

[Mr-12138]

I found the reason: it was related to using "CoCopilot" with my GitHub account. I contacted GitHub technical support and the restriction has been lifted.

[R2D221]

I can't find any option in Settings to disable this.

[mak448a]

Does it train on code opened in VSCode?

[joakim]

Why else would they offer it for free?

[ProjectPhysX]

Wow, you automatically enabled the plagiarizing machine without user consent, and default-enabled the data-scraping mechanism which is illegal under EU DSGVO law. And there is no option to opt-out or disable Copilot again. GitHub enshittification is going great!

[TheSystemGuy1337]

Just another example of why the internet is rapidly dying. Hell, some people already consider it as dead. The moment advertisers and companies saw they can profit off the World Wide Web, the internet died as a whole. And with late stage capitalism in full swing, they are milking the very last drops of profit from the Internet before it finally crumbles.

[sinand99]

You are on the right path Microsoft. But you guys should increase the current limits, they are like a joke now. Actually you should make the basic tier unlimited Copilot completely free for Visual Studio. Why would I use this when I have everything free in Amazon Q ?

[Firesphere]

I'm thrilled to announce that this is not a positive, and it won't make anyone's life easier.
I did not ask for this copy-paste Large Lying Model to be "activated" on my account, yet here we are.

All the more reason to finish moving my things to Codeberg.

[UjuiUjuMandan]

Not introducing but advertising.
Not free and profit your data.

[joakim]

If something's free, you're the product.

In this case, I would think your prompts are used as training data for OpenAI. AI also uses insane amounts of power, if you care about that. As for privacy, I don't think it's any worse than using VSCode and GitHub in the first place. It's all Microsoft.

[arpetris]

I have a paid personal subscription. How is the free tier different?

[Akash1134]

Copilot Free has the following limitations:

• Code completions are limited to 2000 completions per month, whereas it's unlimited for Copilot Pro
• Copilot Chat is limited to 50 chat messages per month, whereas it's unlimited for Copilot Pro. This limit includes both standard chats and multi-file editing chats in VS Code and Visual Studio.

When you reach these limits, you can upgrade to Copilot Pro to continue using Copilot. You can refer this comparison for detailed difference between the different tiers.

[DarklinuxFr]

already, a big thank you, I didn't dare use VSC anymore after my year with paid github copilot, this functionality has become essential to me, so I will be able to start coding again

[joakim]

So you've become addicted and can't code without assistance? Doesn't sound that great when you put it that way, does it.

Be careful with crutches.

[nabaxo]

How do I turn this shit off?

[mieaw]

🤣😂

[iamcjwilliams]

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/147437

[nabaxo]

@iamcjwilliams Way ahead of you buddy - https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/147437#discussioncomment-11629980

[Albertosogasol]

I think if you dont give us the possibility of disable it, at least you should offer a real free version. The current version only allows up to 50messages per month. That is not free, it is similar to a trial version.
Im sure you are training the model or obtaining data from our code without our permission and we cant do anything

[peme969]

Yes thats true. 50 messages per month is nothing…
You could uncheck the checkbox that trains the AI model from your code (though its enabled by default 🙄):

[mauke]

Thank you for inviting feedback.

I have been on this website for almost 15 years now. I originally started using Github because it offered an easy-to-use remote backup of my git repositories plus an integrated basic bug tracker. It was nice, for a while. But the constant "AI" spam has become unbearable and this announcement is what finally pushed me to seriously start looking into Github alternatives. If you don't remove "Copilot" from my account and stop sending me e-mail about it, I will move my repositories elsewhere and encourage any projects I contribute to to do the same.

[vukitoso]

Oops, something went wrong
Copilot is unavailable to you at this time.

Although a letter arrived in the mail: "You have free access to GitHub Copilot"

[peme969]

Probably because you live in a country that isnt supported by Github Copilot. Besides, do you really want it?

[rpayeras]

Hopefully, you will provide more value to those who paid it, any plan to release Spark soon?

[lukaslueg]

For the love of god, stop with the constant plagiarism-as-a-service spam. People need to work here.

[delk73]

Broke the plugin with no error message. Misleading cancel scare wasn't updated to reflect new free status (I think this messaging runs afoul of law in many places). Love waking up to broken things when all I want to do is work. On a Thursday. Thanks!

Someone is filing for divorce from OpenAI

[iamcjwilliams]

For instructions on how to disable

See this discussion post: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/147437

[peme969]

I still cant disable it completely on the GitHubUI-

[luck-xj]

How to enable it after disabling?

[martinwoodward]

Do you get your Copilot subscription via your company? If so you'll have to your organisation administrator who can control Copilot usage and then enable it.