How much does Gemini Code Assist cost?
Gemini Code Assist costs $19 per user per month for Standard and $45 per user per month for Enterprise on a 12-month commitment. On a monthly commitment the same seats cost about $22.80 and $54. Google lists these as hourly license fees on its Gemini for Google Cloud pricing page ($0.026027397 and $0.061643836 per user hour on annual terms), and every subscription is billed monthly whichever term you pick.
The hourly format confuses a lot of buyers, so here is the conversion. A month on Google's pricing model is 730 hours. Multiply the hourly fee by 730 and you get the per-seat monthly price. Multiply by 8,760 and you get the yearly price per seat: $228 for Standard and $540 for Enterprise on annual terms.
| Edition | Monthly commitment | 12-month commitment | Per seat per year (annual) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.031232877 per hour, about $22.80 a month | $0.026027397 per hour, about $19 a month | $228 |
| Enterprise | $0.073972603 per hour, about $54 a month | $0.061643836 per hour, about $45 a month | $540 |
There is also a version for individuals that Google sends people to at codeassist.google instead of the Cloud pricing page. It is aimed at single developers on personal accounts, not at companies that need admin controls and license management, so the rest of this article sticks to the two business editions.
Gemini Code Assist Standard vs Enterprise pricing
The $26 a seat gap between Standard and Enterprise buys you mainly one thing that matters for codebase work: code customization. Both editions include code completion, code generation and chat in VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, local codebase awareness, agent mode, the Gemini CLI and Gen AI indemnification. Enterprise adds code customization on your private repositories, Gemini in Apigee and Application Integration, extra Gemini Cloud Assist features and higher daily limits for agent mode and the CLI.
Local codebase awareness in Standard only looks at the folder you have open and your open tabs. Code customization in Enterprise searches every repository in an organization-wide index, so suggestions follow your house style and reuse your existing helpers. If your reason for buying is "the AI should know our code", you are almost certainly pricing Enterprise, not Standard.
If what you actually need from Enterprise is the integration side, Apigee and Application Integration, compare it with a dedicated data integration platform that connects your apps, APIs and databases before you buy 45 dollar seats for every developer.
What Gemini Code Assist costs a team
Per-seat pricing scales with headcount, so the bill depends on how many people need the tool. These are annual-term numbers.
| Team size | Standard per month | Enterprise per month | Enterprise per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 developers | $95 | $225 | $2,700 |
| 10 developers | $190 | $450 | $5,400 |
| 20 developers | $380 | $900 | $10,800 |
| 50 developers | $950 | $2,250 | $27,000 |
Those totals assume only developers get seats. In most companies the questions about how the code behaves come from a wider group: QA engineers checking a rule, support leads tracing an error message, product managers asking what happens on a failed payment. Every one of them needs a license if the answers live inside the IDE assistant, and most of them will never use code completion.
What code customization actually covers
Google's documentation is specific about the limits, and they are worth reading before you sign an annual commitment.
- Hosts. Repositories on github.com, gitlab.com and bitbucket.org, plus on-premises GitHub Enterprise, GitLab Enterprise and Bitbucket Data Center. GitHub Enterprise Cloud IP restrictions are not supported.
- Setup. Connections go through Developer Connect in a Google Cloud project, and only the us-central1, europe-west1 and asia-southeast1 regions are supported. One code repository index per project and per organization.
- Languages. C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Rust, TypeScript, Verilog and SystemVerilog, plus Markdown docs. Everything else, including Ruby, Swift, SQL and YAML, is not indexed.
- Freshness. The index is rebuilt every 24 hours.
- Where it shows up. It works inside code completion and code generation in the VS Code extension (2.18.0 or later), the IntelliJ plugin, Cloud Workstations and the Cloud Shell Editor. It is a better-suggestions feature, not a search page or a Q&A tool for people outside the IDE.
- Privacy. Google says the model does not train on your private code and stores the index in a dedicated single-tenant environment.
So Enterprise is a strong buy for a Google Cloud shop whose developers want completions that match the codebase. It is a weak buy if the real goal is letting the whole team search and ask questions about the code.
Is Gemini Code Assist Enterprise worth it for codebase questions?
For codebase questions alone, usually not. You pay $45 a seat for an assistant whose repository index feeds code suggestions inside an editor, and every person who wants an answer needs a seat. A team of 20 pays $900 a month on annual terms before anyone outside engineering is added.
A shared codebase search and Q&A tool flips the math. Asking questions about your codebase in CodeIndex works from a browser for anyone on the plan: you type "where do we lock an account after failed logins" and get the files, line ranges and an answer that cites them. Pro covers 20 users and 50 repositories for $149 a month billed annually, or $1,788 a year, against $10,800 a year for 20 Enterprise seats.
The honest trade-off: CodeIndex is not a coding assistant. It does not autocomplete code or run agent mode in your editor, and it indexes GitHub only, not GitLab or Bitbucket. Plenty of teams run both, a per-seat assistant for the developers who write code all day and one flat semantic code search tool for everyone who needs to find and understand it.
Gemini Code Assist pricing compared with other tools
| Tool | Price on annual terms | Private repo awareness | Who can query it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini Code Assist Standard | $19 per user per month | Open folder and tabs only | Seat holders in the IDE |
| Gemini Code Assist Enterprise | $45 per user per month | Org-wide index via code customization | Seat holders in the IDE |
| GitHub Copilot Business | $19 per user per month | Repository indexing for Copilot Chat | Seat holders |
| Sourcegraph Enterprise | From $16,000 a year | Code Search and Deep Search | Licensed users |
| CodeIndex | $49, $149 or $499 a month per team | Shared index of your GitHub repos | Every user on the plan, plus API on Pro |
Sourcegraph is the other common option for org-wide code understanding, but its floor is far higher. The details are in our breakdown of Sourcegraph pricing, and if you are coming from Copilot the Copilot knowledge bases replacement guide covers what moved to Spaces and what it costs.
How to keep Gemini Code Assist costs down
- Pick the 12-month term if you are sure. It cuts about 17 percent off both editions, $22.80 to $19 and $54 to $45.
- Mix editions. Licenses are assigned per user in the Gemini Admin console, so heavy users can get Enterprise while occasional coders stay on Standard.
- Do not license people who only ask questions. Give QA, support and product a shared search and Q&A tool instead of IDE seats they will not use.
- Check language coverage first. If a large part of your code is Ruby, Swift or SQL, code customization will not index it, and Enterprise loses most of its edge over Standard.
Frequently asked questions
How much is Gemini Code Assist per month?
Gemini Code Assist Standard is about $22.80 per user per month on a monthly commitment and $19 on a 12-month commitment. Enterprise is about $54 per user per month monthly and $45 on annual terms. Google lists the prices as hourly license fees and bills every subscription monthly.
Is Gemini Code Assist free?
There is a version for individual developers that Google points to at codeassist.google. The business editions, Standard and Enterprise, are paid per user. Companies that need admin controls, license management and code customization on private repositories buy one of those two editions.
What is the difference between Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise?
Enterprise includes everything in Standard plus code customization based on your private repositories, Gemini in Apigee and Application Integration, more Gemini Cloud Assist features and higher daily limits for agent mode and the Gemini CLI. Standard only uses local codebase awareness from the folder and tabs you have open.
Does Gemini Code Assist work with GitHub?
Yes. Enterprise code customization can index repositories on github.com, gitlab.com and bitbucket.org, plus GitHub Enterprise, GitLab Enterprise and Bitbucket Data Center on premises, connected through Developer Connect. GitHub Enterprise Cloud IP restrictions are not supported.
How much does Gemini Code Assist Enterprise cost for 20 developers?
On a 12-month commitment, 20 Enterprise seats cost about $900 a month, or $10,800 a year. On monthly terms the same team pays about $1,080 a month.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Gemini Code Assist Enterprise for codebase questions?
Yes, if the goal is search and Q&A rather than code completion. CodeIndex gives a whole team semantic search and cited answers over private GitHub repositories for a flat $49, $149 or $499 a month billed annually, with a 14-day trial. It is not an IDE coding assistant.