What’s new with Posit AI

2026

March 2026

Posit AI moves to Early Release

Posit AI transitioned from invite-only public beta to Early Release, making it available to all RStudio users. This release introduces two new tools—Posit Assistant and Next Edit Suggestions—that bring AI functionality directly into the RStudio IDE.

Posit Assistant

Posit Assistant is a conversational agent embedded in RStudio. Because it can read your live R session—including loaded packages, environment variables, and data frames—it provides answers based on your actual data rather than generic assumptions.

Posit Assistant can help with:

  • Writing and editing code: Write code for a specific purpose, refactor existing code, build Shiny apps, or edit code in a Quarto document.
  • Debugging: Identify and fix issues in your code.
  • Exploratory data analysis: Summarize datasets, check for quality issues, and visualize relationships directly within the chat.
  • Understanding a codebase: Get explanations of how code works or answers about unfamiliar files.
  • Creating reports: Generate Quarto documents from your analysis using the /report command.

Next Edit Suggestions

Next Edit Suggestions (NES) offers targeted code completions as you type. It runs in the background and uses your live R or Python session context to surface relevant suggestions—such as syntax for joining tables or updating parameters—without breaking your concentration.

NES usage is unlimited and included with all Posit AI plans.

Pricing

Posit AI is an optional subscription service at $20 per month. RStudio itself remains free, open source, and fully functional without it.

  • Free trial: A grant of one-time credits with no credit card required.
  • Unlimited NES: All plans include unlimited use of Next Edit Suggestions.
  • Posit Assistant credits: The monthly plan includes a credit allowance for Posit Assistant. For most users, this covers a full month of typical use.
  • Automatic Recharge: If you reach your Posit Assistant usage cap, you can opt in to automatic recharge to add additional credits on demand.

Privacy

Posit AI operates under a Zero Data Retention agreement with Anthropic. Posit AI processes your prompts and code to generate a response and then immediately deletes them. Your code, data, and text are never stored on Anthropic’s servers and are never used to train models.

Users can opt in or out of Posit’s own trace data collection at account creation.

Getting started

To activate Posit AI, download the latest daily build of RStudio and create a Posit AI account when prompted. See the Getting Started guide for a full walkthrough.

January 2026

Invite-only public beta

Posit AI launches as an invite-only public beta, available to users who sign up on the waitlist. This initial release gives early adopters access to Posit Assistant and Next Edit Suggestions in RStudio, with the goal of gathering feedback ahead of a wider release.

Beta participants are encouraged to ask questions and share feedback on the Posit Community Forum, and to file bugs and feature requests on GitHub.