Codeium: free AI code assistant for 70+ languages, Copilot alternative

In 2023, GitHub Copilot was the reference for AI code completion, but it cost $10 a month. Codeium arrives with a radical proposition: the same type of functionality, completely free for individual developers, with no usage limit.

Support for over 70 programming languages made it more versatile than many competitors, and integrations with the major editors — VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, Neovim — meant almost no one had to change their working environment.

The model was proprietary, trained on public code, with a cloud infrastructure optimized to keep latency low despite the zero cost.