Gemini Code Assist review

Gemini Code Assist is Google's AI coding assistant for IDE extensions and the Gemini CLI. The important change is that consumer access is no longer available: the product page says requests from consumer accounts stopped on June 18, 2026. That includes both IDE-extension and CLI requests, so the listed free individual allowance is not a currently usable free tier.

Standard and Enterprise subscriptions have a separate deprecation schedule; the source does not give its dates. Consumer users are directed to migrate to Google's Antigravity family of products. The page sends users with Antigravity CLI problems to its GitHub repository, which is a support route, not a way to restore Code Assist consumer access.

For teams, Code Assist still has paid plan details, but the separate deprecation schedule makes its runway a procurement question. If you're evaluating a replacement, treat the consumer product as discontinued and verify the paid plan's status before committing.

The published usage allowances are the clearest reason to consider the paid plans. Standard lists 1,500 model requests per user per day, 6,000 code requests per project per day, and 960 Cloud Assist chat requests per project per day, with a 2-requests-per-second interactive limit. Enterprise raises the model allowance to 2,000 per user per day and includes increased or pooled usage limits, though exact project ceilings are not published.

Pricing data lists Standard at $22.80 per user per month, or $19 with an upfront annual commitment. Enterprise is $54 per user per month, or $45 annually, and requires at least 10 licenses. Individual pricing is listed at $0 per month, but its consumer requests stopped, so that price does not mean the individual tier remains usable.

A commenter on Reddit said Gemini CLI handled a somewhat complex Go project reasonably well, though it did not solve one bug. That is anecdotal, but it suggests the CLI can be useful when it is available and the task fits.

The main problem is availability, not a missing feature: consumer IDE and CLI requests stopped on June 18, 2026. The individual plan's listed caps—6,000 code requests and 240 chat queries per day, with a 128,000-token context window—are therefore not a practical reason to switch now. Standard and Enterprise have separate deprecation schedules, but no dates are published here.

The paid caps also need careful reading. Standard's 6,000 code requests and 960 Cloud Assist chats are per project, while its 1,500 model requests are per user. Enterprise has a 10-license minimum, and its exact project ceilings are unpublished. That makes it harder to forecast usage or compare a team bill against another tool.

Reddit discussions include reports of architecture-conflicting suggestions and inconsistent access, including QR-code verification prompts. Those are user reports, not confirmed product-wide faults, but they add to the uncertainty around a tool whose consumer version has already been shut off.

The listed individual plan is $0 per month, with 6,000 code requests and 240 chat queries per day. But consumer-tier IDE and CLI requests stopped on June 18, 2026, so a free plan listing does not mean consumer access is still active. Standard and Enterprise have separate deprecation schedules, with no dates published here.

Standard costs $22.80 per user monthly, or $19 per user per month with an upfront annual commitment. It includes 1,500 model requests per user per day and a 2-request-per-second interactive limit. Enterprise is $54 monthly or $45 with annual billing—more than twice Standard at either rate—and requires at least 10 licenses. That puts the Enterprise minimum at $540 per month, or $450 per month on the annual rate. Exact pooled usage ceilings are not published.

No add-ons are listed. Individual annual pricing is also not published. Check the separate deprecation schedule before committing to a paid tier.

The clearest reason to leave is access: consumer-tier IDE and CLI requests stopped on June 18, 2026. Consumer-account users can migrate to the Antigravity family of products, but the published information does not describe migration steps, what transfers, or whether data export is available. Those details are not published here, so confirm them before relying on a move to preserve prompts, settings, or other account data.

For teams, Standard and Enterprise follow a separate deprecation schedule. Its timing is not specified on the vendor's site, which makes long-term planning harder; check current terms before switching a team workflow over. Enterprise also has a 10-license minimum, a material constraint for smaller teams.

We have no Reddit reports in the published material, so we can’t responsibly claim what users there say makes them leave. The documented triggers are the consumer shutdown and uncertainty about paid-plan status. If Antigravity CLI migration causes trouble, the page directs users to its GitHub repo.