Gemini Code Assist sells two editions. Standard is $19.00 per user per month on a 12-month commitment or $22.80 on a monthly commitment. Enterprise is $45.00 on a 12-month commitment or $54.00 monthly. All subscriptions are billed monthly and licences are purchased from the Gemini Admin console. The free Gemini Code Assist for individuals tier is gone: on 18 June 2026 the Code Assist IDE extensions and Gemini CLI stopped serving requests for the individuals, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra tiers, with users directed to Antigravity and Antigravity CLI.
- Standard: $19.00 per user per month on a 12-month commitment, $22.80 monthly.
- Enterprise: $45.00 on a 12-month commitment, $54.00 monthly.
- The free individuals tier ended on 18 June 2026, and took the free Gemini CLI login with it.
- Quotas are per day: 1,500 requests on Standard, 2,000 on Enterprise, for agent mode and the CLI combined.
- API keys still work. Enterprise licences and API-key auth were explicitly unaffected.
The prices
Google publishes four numbers, not two, because each edition is priced differently depending on whether you commit for a year. All subscriptions are billed monthly either way; the commitment changes the rate, not the invoice cadence.
Gemini Code Assist licence fees, read from Google Cloud pricing on 7 August 2026.
| Edition | Monthly commitment | 12-month commitment |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $22.80 / user / month | $19.00 / user / month |
| Enterprise | $54.00 / user / month | $45.00 / user / month |
Google also lists the same licences at an hourly rate, which is what actually meters if a seat is assigned partway through a month.
The same licences, expressed hourly.
| Edition | Monthly commitment | 12-month commitment |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.031232877 / hour | $0.026027397 / hour |
| Enterprise | $0.073972603 / hour | $0.061643836 / hour |
Seat maths
| Team size | Standard, annual | Standard, monthly | Enterprise, annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $19 | $22.80 | $45 |
| 5 | $95 | $114 | $225 |
| 20 | $380 | $456 | $900 |
| 100 | $1,900 | $2,280 | $4,500 |
What happened on 18 June 2026
This is the part most comparison articles still get wrong, and it is not subtle. The Gemini Code Assist release notes state that starting 18 June 2026, Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions and Gemini CLI stopped serving requests for the Gemini Code Assist for individuals, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra tiers.
| Auth path | Status after 18 June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Code Assist for individuals, free | No longer served |
| Google AI Pro | No longer served |
| Google AI Ultra | No longer served |
| Code Assist Standard licence | Unaffected |
| Code Assist Enterprise licence | Unaffected |
| Gemini API key | Unaffected |
| Vertex AI | Unaffected |
Affected users were directed to migrate to Antigravity and Antigravity CLI, which Google describes as its unified, agent-first terminal experience. The migration path imports existing configuration including skills, MCP servers, and agents, and keeps compatibility with existing memory files.
What still costs nothing
- Antigravity. Google's agentic development platform, which its own site describes as available at no charge for developers. This is the successor path, and it is where the free lane went.
- An API key, up to a point. The Gemini CLI README lists a Gemini API key path with a daily request allowance before usage-based billing applies.
- Nothing else. There is no free Code Assist seat, and a Google AI Pro or Ultra consumer subscription no longer buys you one.
Quotas: what a licence actually allows
Price per seat is only half the question. The other half is the daily ceiling, and Google publishes it per edition.
Daily quotas, from Google Cloud documentation, checked 7 August 2026.
| Limit | Standard | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Model requests per day, agent mode and Gemini CLI combined | 1,500 | 2,000 |
| Code generation and completion requests per day | 6,000 | 6,000 |
| Chat and Cloud Assist panel requests per day | 960 | 960 |
| Rate limit | 2 requests per second per user | 2 requests per second per user |
The daily limits aggregate across model versions. Once the maximum is reached, no further requests can be made through those interfaces to any model until the quota resets, so switching to a smaller model does not buy headroom the way it does on a token-weighted plan.
Gemini Code Assist in VS Code
The extension is still the main surface, and the licence change is the thing that trips people up when it stops working.
Install the extension
Gemini Code Assist is published by Google in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Install it from the Extensions view, or from the command line.
Sign in with the right identity
This is where it now goes wrong. A personal Google account on an individuals, AI Pro, or Ultra tier is no longer served. Sign in with the account that carries your organisation's Standard or Enterprise licence.
Set your Google Cloud project
A paid Code Assist licence is scoped to a project. The Gemini CLI documentation says it directly: if you are using a paid Code Assist licence from your organization, remember to set the Google Cloud project.
export GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT="your-project-id"Confirm the licence is assigned
Licences are granted per user from the Gemini Admin console. An unassigned user is indistinguishable from a broken install from inside the editor, which is why this is worth checking before debugging anything else.
Symptom to cause, after the June 2026 change.
| Symptom | Cause |
|---|---|
| Worked in May 2026, stopped in June | You were on an individual, AI Pro, or Ultra tier |
| Signed in but every request fails | No Code Assist licence assigned to that account |
| Works in the IDE, not in the CLI | Project not set for the CLI process |
| Requests stop mid-afternoon | Daily quota, 1,500 or 2,000 depending on edition |
| Only completions work | Completions bill against a separate 6,000 per day pool |
Is it worth it against the alternatives
Priced against the rest of the market, Standard is cheap and Enterprise is mid-market. The reason to buy it is rarely the price.
Entry price per user per month, checked 7 August 2026.
| Tool | Entry price | Free tier |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot Pro | $10 | Yes, limited |
| Gemini Code Assist Standard | $19 annual, $22.80 monthly | No |
| Claude Pro, includes Claude Code | $20 | No |
| ChatGPT Plus, includes Codex | $20 | Yes, Codex is on Free |
| Cursor Pro | $20 | Yes, limited |
- Buy it if you are already on Google Cloud. Enterprise adds code customization against your private repositories and the wider Cloud Assist feature set, which is the integration nobody else can sell you.
- Buy Enterprise for the extra 500 requests a day only if your team is genuinely hitting 1,500. That is the real difference between the editions for a working developer.
- Do not buy it to replace a terminal agent without testing the daily ceiling first. Agentic work consumes multiple model requests per prompt, and the quota is a hard stop rather than a slowdown.
- If you wanted the free lane, that is Antigravity now, not Code Assist.
Questions people ask
Standard is $19.00 per user per month on a 12-month commitment or $22.80 on a monthly commitment. Enterprise is $45.00 on a 12-month commitment or $54.00 monthly. All subscriptions are billed monthly.
No. On 18 June 2026 the Code Assist IDE extensions and Gemini CLI stopped serving requests for the Gemini Code Assist for individuals, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra tiers. Only paid Standard and Enterprise licences and API-key authentication still work.
Not through the old personal Google account login, which stopped being served on 18 June 2026. A Gemini API key still carries a daily allowance before usage-based billing, and Google directs former free users to Antigravity CLI.
Enterprise adds code customization against your private repositories, the wider Gemini Cloud Assist feature set, and a higher daily quota: 2,000 model requests a day for agent mode and the CLI against 1,500 on Standard.
1,500 on Standard and 2,000 on Enterprise for agent mode and Gemini CLI combined, plus 6,000 code generation and completion requests and 960 chat requests a day, rate limited to 2 requests per second per user.
Almost certainly because you were signed in on an individual, Google AI Pro, or Google AI Ultra tier, all of which stopped being served on 18 June 2026. Sign in with an account holding a Standard or Enterprise licence and set your Google Cloud project.
Yes, 17% on both editions: $19.00 against $22.80 on Standard, and $45.00 against $54.00 on Enterprise. Billing is monthly either way.
Antigravity and Antigravity CLI, which Google positions as its unified agent-first terminal experience. The migration imports existing skills, MCP servers, and agents.
Sources
Every figure above was read from these pages on August 2026. Vendors reprice without notice; if you find a stale number, tell us.
- Gemini for Google Cloud pricing Standard and Enterprise licence fees, monthly and 12-month
- Gemini Code Assist release notes the 18 June 2026 change to individual tiers
- Gemini quotas and limits per-edition daily request ceilings
- Gemini CLI on GitHub auth options and the paid licence project requirement