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JetBrains AI Assistant Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026

AI Free is free per user, letting you use JetBrains AI Assistant directly inside your IDE without a paid subscription.

AI Coding ToolsFreemiumPrice verified July 16, 2026

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JetBrains AI Assistant plans and pricing

High· Verified July 16, 2026

Interactive calculator

Billing surface

Pick a plan, set your seat count and switch billing to see the running total. The full breakdown lives in the calculator below.

Seats1

$8.33AI Pro · effective monthly, billed annually

Free

AI Free

IDE-native completion + own models/agents

Free

Unlimited local code completions

Local model support via Ollama and LM Studio

Limited cloud quota for third-party models

Context-aware chat

Get started

AI Pro

Regular AI-enhanced IDE workflows

$8.33/user/mo

$10 /user/mosave 17%

Cloud AI features

Access to frontier models

Junie AI agent

Claude Agent

Multi-model switching

Ability to top up AI Credits

Choose AI Pro

Plan

dotUltimate

.NET & game dev toolkit + AI Pro

$18.25/mo

$21.9 /mosave 17%

Rider + ReSharper + 4 extra .NET tools

10 AI Credits/30 days

AI Pro features included

Choose dotUltimate

Plan

All Products Pack

Full JetBrains IDE suite + AI Pro

$24.92/mo

$29.9 /mosave 17%

10 IDEs + Air + extra .NET tools

10 AI Credits/30 days

AI Pro features included

All Products Pack

Plan

AI Ultimate

Frequent coding agent use

$25/user/mo

$30 /user/mosave 17%

All AI Pro features

Priority model access

Advanced Agent capabilities

Access to frontier models (GPT, Claude, Gemini)

Junie for major refactoring

Top-up credits available

Choose AI Ultimate

Plan

AI Enterprise

Max credits, enterprise security, custom AI integrations

$60/user/mo

Custom features

Additional custom features

Centralized admin and billing

Choose AI Enterprise

JetBrains AI Assistant pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerHigh· Verified July 16, 2026

JetBrains AI Assistant is freemium, priced per user and metered in AI Credits. AI Free is $0 but ships only 3 credits every 30 days, not enough for agents. AI Pro is $10/user/mo ($8.33 annual) with 10 credits, AI Ultimate is $30/user/mo ($25 annual) with 35 credits, and AI Enterprise runs $60/user/mo billed annually. Credits are the real currency, and how fast you burn them depends entirely on the model and feature you use, with top-ups sold separately.

AI FreeFree
AI Pro$10/user/mo
dotUltimate$21.90/mo
All Products Pack$29.90/mo
AI Ultimate$30/user/mo
AI Enterprise$60/user/mo

Run your numbers in the cost calculator: pick a plan, set your team size, and compare monthly against annual billing.

Free tier

Yes

Billing model

Freemium

Cheapest paid

$10/user/mo

Annual discount

Save ~17%

At $10/mo to start, JetBrains AI Assistant sits 50% below the $20/mo median across 11 ai coding tools tools we track.

JetBrains AI Assistant cost calculator

JetBrains AI Assistant Hidden Costs & Pitfalls

What sits on top of the plan fee

The seat price buys a small monthly credit allowance, and everything the agent does spends it. Once the allowance is gone, you are buying credits by the dollar, so the meter matters more than the tier name.

AI Credits are the real spend

One AI Credit equals $1, and top-ups cost $1.00 per credit on paid plans, valid for twelve months. AI Pro's $10/mo includes 10 credits, so a heavy agent week that burns 30 credits means $10 in subscription plus $20 in top-ups, or $30 for the month. Because usage varies by model and feature, treat the included credits as a starting balance and price a busy month at the top-up rate, not the sticker.

$1.00 per credit

The free tier's 3-credit ceiling

AI Free gives only 3 AI Credits every 30 days, which covers local completion and bring-your-own-key use but empties almost immediately if you run the Junie or Claude agents. In practice the free tier is a demo of the completion features, and anyone who wants real agent work is on AI Pro at $10/mo from day one. Do not plan around the free tier for anything agentic.

3 credits per 30 days on AI Free

VAT on the listed price

JetBrains adds VAT by country, roughly 20 percent in much of Europe, on top of the shown price unless you supply a VAT ID. So a $10 AI Pro seat lands closer to $12 for an EU buyer without registration. Budget the tax if you are outside the US, because the pricing page figures are the pre-tax base for most regions.

~20% VAT added by country

The renewal jump, credit expiry and every discount worth having are in the JetBrains AI Assistant true cost guide, with an email generator for negotiating team and enterprise rates.

JetBrains AI Assistant Cost Analysis

JetBrains AI Assistant pricing, read against its live plans and category

Checked against current plan data

Positioning

$10/moentry price

50% below the category median

low $10median $20 · n=11high $100

JetBrains prices the AI Assistant per seat and meters it in credits. AI Pro at $10/user/mo is a fraction of the category median and a genuine bargain if you already work in IntelliJ, PyCharm, or WebStorm, with AI Free offering unlimited local completion through Ollama and LM Studio. The catch is the credit allowance: AI Pro's 10 credits a month go quickly under agent use, and AI Ultimate at $30/mo or top-ups at $1 per credit are how you keep going. The value tracks how deep you already are in the JetBrains ecosystem.

Cost drivers

1AI Credits are the real currency at $1 each, and top-ups are $1.00 per credit valid for twelve months, so a heavy month costs more than the seat.
2AI Free includes just 3 credits per 30 days, so it is a completion demo rather than a working agent plan.
3VAT of roughly 20 percent is added by country on top of the listed price unless you provide a VAT ID.

Watch-outs

Buyers have raised concerns about how critical plugin reviews are moderated and about confusion over what changes when you switch to bring-your-own-key.

Strengths

The deep IDE integration and project-level understanding are the reason to pay, and the local processing option keeps sensitive code off the cloud. Users are broadly positive.

Editor’s take

Developers already in a JetBrains IDE should start on AI Free for local models, then move to AI Pro at $10/mo for cheap integrated cloud assistance, budgeting top-ups if they run agents hard. If you would rather have a platform-agnostic AI-first editor than an IDE plugin, look at Cursor at $20/mo.

Oleh KemFounder & Lead Analyst

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 16, 2026

JetBrains AI Assistant price history

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