Gemini Code Assist is Google's AI coding assistant that brings its Gemini models into popular IDEs to complete code, generate functions and unit tests, explain and debug code, and answer development questions in chat. It grew out of Google's earlier 'Duet AI for Developers' product, which Google renamed and relaunched as Gemini Code Assist at Google Cloud Next in April 2024; a free 'Gemini Code Assist for individuals' tier later reached general availability at Google I/O 2025, powered by Gemini 2.5, alongside a companion code-review agent, Gemini Code Assist for GitHub.
What it does
Inside a supported IDE — VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, or Android Studio — Gemini Code Assist offers inline code completions as you type, can generate full functions or code blocks from a comment, writes unit tests, and helps debug existing code. A chat panel, opened via the Gemini 'spark' icon, lets developers ask questions or run built-in prompts such as 'write unit tests' or 'help me debug my code,' with the assistant using local codebase awareness inside the IDE for more relevant answers. The product is offered as two current enterprise-facing editions: Standard, which covers code completion and generation across popular languages plus AI-powered chat with enterprise-grade security, and Enterprise, which adds code customization — the ability to augment the underlying model with an organization's own private codebases for tailored suggestions — along with deeper integration into Google Cloud services such as Apigee and Application Integration. Notably, Google deprecated the standalone free 'Gemini Code Assist for individuals' tier as of June 18, 2026, folding individual usage into other Google AI plans.
Pricing
Google's official documentation confirms Standard and Enterprise as the current paid tiers but does not publish exact per-seat prices on its docs pages; third-party pricing trackers report Standard at roughly $19–$22.80 per user/month and Enterprise at roughly $45–$54 per user/month (depending on annual vs. monthly billing), though prospective buyers should confirm current figures directly with Google Cloud sales, since Google's public documentation directs pricing questions to its dedicated Gemini for Google Cloud pricing page rather than listing fixed numbers in the product docs.
Data privacy and who it's for
Google states that Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise do not use customer prompts or generated responses to train or fine-tune Google's underlying models, and that customer data is used only to serve the immediate request unless a customer opts in to share it. This data-governance stance, combined with admin controls and Google Cloud's broader compliance program, makes Gemini Code Assist a natural fit for organizations already standardized on Google Cloud and Google Workspace that want an IDE-embedded assistant with enterprise security guarantees, code customization on private repositories, and tight integration with Google's own developer and cloud tooling — as opposed to teams looking for a model-agnostic or fully open-source alternative.