Amazon is making its AI-powered coding assistant free for individual developers, undercutting the $10 per month pricing of its Microsoft-made rival. In a post shared on Thursday, Amazon announced that its CodeWhisperer tool is now available to everyone who signs up to use it. Amazon launched CodeWhisperer as a preview last year, which developers can use within various integrated development environments , like Visual Studio Code, to generate lines of code based on a text-based prompt.
CodeWhisperer now supports several languages, including Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, and C#, including Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, C, C++, Shell scripting, SQL, and Scala. Microsoft-owned GitHub beat Amazon to the punch with its Copilot AI tool, announced in June of last year.