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JetBrains AI Pro

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JetBrains AI Pro is the professional-tier subscription plan for JetBrains AI Assistant, providing enhanced AI capabilities within JetBrains IDEs beyond the free tier. It serves developers who require consistent, high-quality AI assistance throughout their daily workflow without hitting usage limits. AI Pro bridges the gap between the limited free tier and the premium AI Ultimate plan, offering expanded cloud AI credits at an accessible price.

Individual subscription costs $10/mo ($100/yr billed annually) for full AI Assistant access across all JetBrains IDEs with monthly cloud credit quota. Commercial / Organization subscription costs $20/user/mo ($200/user/yr billed annually) with centralized license management, pooled team credits, and SAML SSO. A 7-day full trial is available for existing JetBrains IDE license holders.
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Gemini Code Assist

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Gemini Code Assist is Google's business AI coding assistant for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Cloud Workstations, GitHub, and Google Cloud workflows. Standard and Enterprise plans include Gemini 3, a 1M-token context window, Gemini CLI access, preview agent mode, code completion, chat, transformation, PR review, and enterprise governance controls for GCP-heavy teams.

Google Cloud enterprise AI coding assistant. Standard plan is $19/user/mo billed annually ($22.80/mo monthly) for multi-file completion, codebase chat, and IDE integration. Enterprise plan is $45/user/mo billed annually adding full 1M+ token context, private repository customization (GitHub/GitLab), VPC Service Controls, IAM, and enterprise IP indemnification. A 30-day free trial is available.Review →
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GitHub Copilot

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AI-powered code assistant from GitHub and OpenAI that provides real-time code suggestions, completions, and chat-based help directly in your editor. Offers inline completions, a chat interface, an autonomous coding agent that can implement features from GitHub Issues, and AI code review with 60M+ reviews processed. Supports GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini Pro. Works with VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, Xcode, and Eclipse. The benchmark AI pair programmer.

GitHub Copilot offers a Free plan for individual developers with core code completion and limited chat requests. Paid individual subscriptions start with Copilot Pro at $10/month ($100/year) with multi-model choice and monthly AI credit allocations, progressing to Copilot Pro+ at $39/month and Copilot Max at $100/month for heavy sustained workloads. Organizational plans include Copilot Business at $19/user/month for policy control and Copilot Enterprise at $39/user/month with codebase fine-tuning, PR indexing, and expanded AI credit pools.Review →
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Cursor

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AI-first code editor built as a VS Code fork that deeply integrates LLMs into every part of the development workflow. Features Tab autocomplete with multi-line predictions, Cmd+K inline editing, AI chat with full codebase awareness, and Agent mode for autonomous multi-file edits with terminal execution. Supports GPT-4, Claude, and more with automatic context from project files and docs. Includes privacy mode for SOC 2 compliance. The leading AI-native IDE with 100K+ paying users.

Cursor offers a free Hobby tier with core editor access, Composer, and Tab completions. Paid individual plans start with Cursor Pro at $20/month ($16/month billed annually) featuring a $20 third-party model allowance and unlimited Cursor models, followed by Pro+ at $60/month and Ultra at $200/month for high-volume developers. Team plans include Teams Standard at $40/user/month ($32/user/month billed annually) and Teams Premium at $120/user/month (5x usage). Enterprise tier provides custom pricing with SAML SSO and SCIM, and on-demand usage is available for pay-as-you-go model overage.Review →
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Claude Code

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Anthropic's agentic CLI coding tool that delegates complex tasks to Claude directly from the terminal. Understands entire codebases via automatic context gathering, edits multiple files, runs shell commands, and manages Git workflows autonomously. Supports CLAUDE.md for persistent project instructions, integrates with VS Code and JetBrains, and uses Claude Opus/Sonnet with extended thinking for complex architectural decisions. Built for terminal-first developers.

Claude Code is included with Anthropic subscription tiers starting at $20/month for Claude Pro, $100/month for Claude Max (5x), $200/month for Claude Max (20x), and $30/user/month for Claude Team ($25/user/month billed annually). Alternatively, developers can use the CLI via pay-as-you-go Anthropic API keys billed strictly per token consumed.Review →
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Cody

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AI coding assistant from Sourcegraph for large enterprise codebases. Uses Sourcegraph's code graph for deep cross-file reasoning with flexible model choice (Claude, Gemini, GPT). Features autocomplete, chat, inline editing, test generation, and OpenCtx providers (Jira, Linear, Notion, Google Docs). As of July 2025, Cody Free and Pro tiers were discontinued — Sourcegraph now offers Cody to Enterprise customers only; Amp is the path for individuals.

Freemium code intelligence and AI assistant by Sourcegraph. Free tier ($0/mo) provides 200 autocompletions and 20 chats/mo. Pro ($9/user/mo) offers unlimited code completions, unlimited chat, and multi-model access (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro). Enterprise ($19-$59/user/mo or custom platform contract) delivers Sourcegraph Code Graph multi-repo context indexing, SCIP code intelligence, SOC 2 Type II compliance, SAML SSO/SCIM, MCP support, BYOK model gateways, and self-hosted/air-gapped deployment options.Review →
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Tabnine

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AI code completion assistant that runs locally or in the cloud with a focus on privacy and enterprise security. Trains on your codebase for personalized suggestions. Supports 30+ languages across VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, and other IDEs. Features whole-line and full-function completions, natural language to code, and unit test generation. On-premise deployment option for air-gapped environments. SOC 2 certified. One of the earliest AI code assistants, now competing with Copilot and Supermaven.

Tabnine provides a free Starter tier for basic code completion. The Code Assistant plan starts at $39/user/month (billed annually) with AI chat, full code completion, and IP protection, while the Agentic Platform plan at $59/user/month (billed annually) unlocks autonomous coding agents and MCP tool integrations. Custom Enterprise pricing is available for self-hosted, VPC, and air-gapped deployments with custom model fine-tuning.Review →
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Tabby

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Tabby is an open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant that serves as a privacy-focused alternative to GitHub Copilot. It provides code completion, chat-based coding assistance, and IDE integrations while running entirely on your own infrastructure with support for consumer-grade GPUs. Tabby supports multiple LLM backends and offers extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, and other editors, giving teams full control over their AI coding tools without sending code to external services.

Open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant under the Apache-2.0 license. The Community edition is $0 for up to 5 users, with full local/private cloud deployment (Docker/CUDA/Metal/ROCm), and zero code transmission when you self-host inference. Commercial tiers include Team ($19/seat/mo) and custom Enterprise plans offering SAML/OAuth SSO, RBAC, team analytics dashboards, distributed orchestration, and air-gapped enterprise support.Review →

Open-source Amazon Q Developer alternatives

Tabby — see all open-source developer tools.

Free Amazon Q Developer alternatives

GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Cody, Tabnine, Tabby offer a free plan or free tier.

More AI Coding Assistants tools

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AmpAmp is a multi-model coding agent for terminal, web, macOS/iOS, and IDE-connected workflows. Vendor docs describe the same agent and threads across surfaces, with remote Orbs, local Runners, Dial modes (low / medium / high / ultra), shared threads, MCP, plugins, and BYOK / linked ChatGPT subscriptions. Pricing spans a free Hobby tier, optional Megawatt ($20/mo) and Gigawatt ($200/mo) Individual plans, no-extra-charge Teams workspaces, pay-as-you-go credits, and Enterprise.CodexCodex is OpenAI's coding agent for software development across the Codex app, editor, terminal, and cloud tasks. It helps write, review, debug, refactor, and automate code, with ChatGPT plan access for managed surfaces and API-key usage for CLI, SDK, and IDE workflows. The open-source CLI and SDK support local repository work, while cloud features add GitHub review, Slack/Linear integrations, worktrees, skills, MCP, and automations.DevinDevin is Cognition's managed AI software engineer for delegating engineering tasks to cloud and desktop agents. It can plan work, navigate codebases, write and run code, test changes, open PRs, review/autofix issues, and collaborate through GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Linear, Jira, Slack, and Teams. Current Devin surfaces include Devin Cloud, Devin Desktop, Devin CLI, Devin Review, Windows VM support, DeepWiki, Ask Devin, and team/enterprise controls.OpenLITOpenLIT is an open-source AI engineering platform that provides OpenTelemetry-native observability for LLM applications. It combines distributed tracing, evaluation, prompt management, a secrets vault, and GPU telemetry in a single self-hostable stack. With 50+ integrations across LLM providers and frameworks, it lets teams monitor AI applications using their existing observability backends like Grafana, Datadog, or Jaeger.CiliumCilium is a CNCF Graduated, Apache-2.0 project for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability using eBPF. It can replace kube-proxy, enforce identity-aware L3-L7 network policies, and add Hubble flow observability plus Tetragon runtime-security signals. Current source checks support GKE Dataplane V2 using Cilium/eBPF and Azure CNI Powered by Cilium for AKS.MCP-ScanMCP-Scan is a security tool that scans MCP servers for vulnerabilities including tool poisoning, prompt injection, cross-origin escalation, and rug pull attacks. Acquired by Snyk in 2026, it is the first dedicated security scanner for the MCP ecosystem. It analyzes tool descriptions, permissions, and behavior patterns to detect malicious or compromised MCP servers before they can exploit AI agents.PangolinIdentity-based remote access platform built on WireGuard that combines reverse proxy and VPN capabilities. Pangolin supports clientless browser access for web apps and client-based private-resource access across macOS, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Android, with zero-trust rules, peer-to-peer tunnels, automatic SSL, SSO/OIDC options, and cloud or self-hosted deployment.CodeRabbitAI-powered code review tool that automatically analyzes pull requests and provides line-by-line feedback on code quality, bugs, security vulnerabilities, and best practices. Integrates with GitHub and GitLab as a bot that comments on PRs. Uses LLMs to understand code context and suggest improvements. Learns from your codebase patterns and team preferences. Supports all major programming languages. Reduces review cycle time while catching issues human reviewers might miss.SemgrepSemgrep is an AppSec platform with a widely used open-source engine for readable code rules plus commercial SAST, supply-chain and secrets workflows. Current product positioning emphasizes AI-assisted detection, triage and remediation, CI/pull-request integration and managed governance for security teams.

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FAQ

Which Amazon Q Developer alternative is listed first?

JetBrains AI Pro is first in the editor-selected list of 8 Amazon Q Developer alternatives. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source Amazon Q Developer alternatives?

Yes — Tabby are open source.

Are there free Amazon Q Developer alternatives?

Yes — GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and more offer a free plan or free tier.