Gemini Code Assist offers AI-powered assistance to help your development team build, deploy, and operate applications throughout the software development lifecycle, and is available in the following editions:
Gemini Code Assist for individuals, available at no cost.
Gemini Code Assist Standard, a product in the Gemini for Google Cloud portfolio.
Gemini Code Assist Enterprise, a product in the Gemini for Google Cloud portfolio.
You can use Gemini Code Assist in your IDE (such as VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (like IntelliJ and PyCharm) or Android Studio) for AI-powered coding assistance in many popular languages. You can get code completions as you write your code, generate full functions or code blocks from comments, generate unit tests, and get help with debugging, understanding, and documenting your code.
Gemini Code Assist provides contextualized responses to your prompts, including source citations regarding which documentation and code samples Gemini Code Assist used to generate its responses.
The Gemini large language models (LLMs) that are used by Gemini Code Assist are trained on datasets of publicly available code, Google Cloud-specific material, and other relevant technical information in addition to the datasets used to train the Gemini foundation models. Models are trained so that Gemini Code Assist responses are as useful to Gemini Code Assist users as possible.
Learn how and when Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise use your data. As an early-stage technology, Gemini Code Assist can generate output that seems plausible but is factually incorrect. We recommend that you validate all output from Gemini Code Assist before you use it. For more information, see Gemini Code Assist and responsible AI.
How Gemini Code Assist helps with coding
Gemini Code Assist provides assistance with coding and code-related tasks. We recommend that you test and review all code. Gemini Code Assist provides citation information when it directly quotes at length from another source, such as existing open source code. For more information, see How and when Gemini cites sources.
Interact with Gemini Code Assist in your IDE
After you set up Gemini Code Assist for individuals, or Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise and install the Gemini Code Assist extension in your IDE (VS Code or supported JetBrains IDE), you can ask for assistance in the following ways:
Receive code completions or generate code directly in the code editor.
Click spark Gemini in the IDE to display the conversational assistant. You can ask questions or select code in your editor and enter prompts such as the following:
Write unit tests for my code.Help me debug my code.Make my code more readable.
For more information, see Code with Gemini Code Assist.
Supported features for Gemini Code Assist for individuals
The following table shows the types of generative AI assistance that are available in supported IDEs at no cost:
| AI coding assistance | ||
|---|---|---|
Code completion and generation in your IDE project in the following IDEs: |
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| Conversational assistant in your IDE using your opened files' context | ||
| Multi-IDE support (VS Code, JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ and PyCharm, and Android Studio) | ||
| Smart actions and commands | ||
Initiate smart actions by right-clicking selected code (VS Code, JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ and PyCharm, and Android Studio). Initiate smart commands with the slash / on the quick pick bar either with or without selected code (VS Code). |
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| External services as tools | ||
Get information and perform actions provided by external services within
your IDE with Gemini Code Assist tools. Send your prompts to
specific tools by using the @ symbol followed by the name of
the tool. For example—@GitHub get issues assigned to me. For
more information about tools, see the
Gemini Code Assist tools overview. |
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| Intellectual property and compliance | ||
| Source citations in your IDE | ||
Supported features for Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise
The following sections show the types of generative AI assistance that are available in Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise.
Coding assistance and chat
The following table shows the types of generative AI assistance that are available in supported IDEs:
| AI coding assistance | Gemini Code Assist Standard | Gemini Code Assist Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
Code completion and generation in your IDE project in the following IDEs: |
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| Conversational assistant in your IDE using your opened files' context | ||
| Multi-IDE support (VS Code, JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ and PyCharm, and Android Studio) | ||
| Smart actions and commands | ||
Initiate smart actions by right-clicking selected code (VS Code, JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ and PyCharm, and Android Studio). Initiate smart commands with the slash / on the quick pick bar either with or without selected code (VS Code. |
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| External services as tools | ||
Get information and perform actions provided by external services within
your IDE with Gemini Code Assist tools. Send your prompts to
specific tools by using the @ symbol followed by the name of
the tool. For example—@GitHub get issues assigned to me. For
more information about tools, see the
Gemini Code Assist tools overview. |
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| Intellectual property and compliance | ||
| Source citations in your IDE and the Google Cloud console | ||
| IP indemnification | ||
| VPC-SC and Private Google Access | ||
| Enterprise knowledge | ||
| Customized code suggestions from your code bases in GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket in your IDE | ||
Gemini Cloud Assist
The following table shows the types of generative AI assistance in Gemini Cloud Assist in the Google Cloud console:
| Gemini Cloud Assist assistance | Gemini Code Assist Standard | Gemini Code Assist Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Gemini Cloud Assist features (including features available to all Google users and available to Gemini Code Assist Enterprise users) |
Gemini in Apigee
The following table shows the types of generative AI assistance with API development in Apigee (IDE and the Google Cloud console):
| Gemini Code Assist for API management | Gemini Code Assist Standard | Gemini Code Assist Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise context used when creating API specifications. (Preview) | ||
| Smart Search powered by Vertex AI in API hub. (GA) | ||
| Gemini Code Assist code explained for Apigee policies. (Preview) |
Gemini in Application Integration
The following table shows the types of generative AI assistance in Application Integration in the Google Cloud console:
| Integration creation assist | Gemini Code Assist Standard | Gemini Code Assist Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| AI-assisted visual editor for automation flow generation | ||
| Enterprise context embedded AI-assisted automation authoring | ||
| Generative AI Automation flow documentation generation and refinement |
Gemini in BigQuery features with Gemini Code Assist
The following table shows the types of generative AI assistance for BigQuery in BigQuery Studio:
| Analytics code assist | Gemini Code Assist Standard | Gemini Code Assist Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| SQL code assistance with generation, completion (preview), and explanation | ||
| Python code assistance with generation and completion (preview) | ||
| Data to insights | ||
| Data canvas to find, transform, query, and visualize data with natural language prompts and a UI for analysis workflows | ||
| Data insights library of prevalidated SQL questions for data assets | ||
Gemini in Colab Enterprise
The following table shows the types of generative AI assistance for code in Colab Enterprise:
| Notebook code assist | Gemini Code Assist Standard | Gemini Code Assist Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Python code generation and completion in notebook |
Gemini in databases
The following table shows the types of generative AI assistance for coding in databases:
| Generate SQL queries | Gemini Code Assist Standard | Gemini Code Assist Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Write in natural language to generate SQL statements. | ||
| Get contextual code that works with your schema. | ||
| Optimize and explain existing queries. |
Gemini in Firebase
The following table shows the types of generative AI assistance for application development provided by Gemini in Firebase:
| Chat AI assistance in the Firebase console | Gemini Code Assist Standard | Gemini Code Assist Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Use deep knowledge, best practices, and troubleshooting expertise for Firebase products and services. | ||
| Generate, refactor, and debug sample code for Firebase with natural language in chat. | ||
| Use natural language prompts to explain, generate, and transform code. | ||
| App quality analysis | ||
| Summarize app crashes and provide insights and troubleshooting steps to help developers investigate and resolve app quality issues. | ||
| Analyze existing code, identify potential issues, and suggest improvements. | ||
| Firebase Cloud Messaging and In-App Messaging campaign summarization and insights | ||
| Summarize and analyze your messaging campaigns, providing actionable recommendations to improve performance. | ||
| Firebase Data Connect schema generation and data exploration | ||
| Generate database schemas with natural language. | ||
| Generate GraphQL queries and mutations with natural language. | ||
| Contextual awareness | ||
| Use project and application context to guide conversational assistance, troubleshooting, and app quality analysis. | ||
Set up Gemini Code Assist
For detailed setup steps, see:
What's next
- Learn how to Code with Gemini Code Assist in your IDE.
- Learn how Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise use your data.
- Learn about Gemini Code Assist pricing.