Google brings asynchronous coding agent "Jules" to general availability
On August 6, 2025, Google announced that its asynchronous AI coding agent “Jules” had reached general availability. Moving to GA barely three months after entering public beta at Google I/O in May 2025, it remains built on Gemini 2.5 Pro and newly introduces three usage tiers: free, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra.
Details
- Beta-period track record: During the public beta, thousands of developers tackled tens of thousands of tasks, with more than 140,000 code improvements shared publicly
- Improved UI and stability: Refreshed the user interface based on feedback and fixed numerous bugs
- New features: Added the ability to reuse past setups to speed up new tasks, along with GitHub Issues integration and multimodal support
- More advanced reasoning: Uses Gemini 2.5 Pro’s “thinking” capability to plan out coding approaches, improving the quality of the resulting code
- Pricing: In addition to a free “introductory” tier, introduced paid plans offering 5x the usage limit for Google AI Pro subscribers and 20x for Google AI Ultra subscribers. College students can use Pro-equivalent features free for a year
- Getting started: Retained its ease of use — simply connect a GitHub repository at jules.google to get started
What happened next
Jules continued to receive updates after reaching general availability, becoming, alongside its sister product for GitHub code review, “Gemini Code Assist for GitHub,” a pillar of Google’s asynchronous coding agent strategy. That said, heading into 2026 Google has increasingly moved to reorganize its entire agent development toolset under the “Antigravity” brand, and the positioning of individual tools including Jules may continue to shift going forward.