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JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
- mystified5016 1y agoI'd be a lot more excited about this if I weren't paying for a crappy VSCode clone.
- Doches 1y agoVisual Studio Code was first released in 2015; Intellij (the original JetBrains IDE) was first released in 2001. Even Atom -- the editor that Microsoft forked to make VSCode -- had its first public release in 2014. It's safe to say that JetBrains IDEs are something other than "crappy VSCode clones."
- nhumrich 1y agoI think OP might be hinting at cursor.
- specialist 1y agoI happily pay. And I continue to use NetBeans, VS Code, Eclipse as needed (or desired). eg Mike Lischke's (awesome) ANTLR4 plugin for VS Code has features not in Terr Parr's (et al) IntelliJ extension (and vice versa). Switching back and forth is nothing sauce.
- static_motion 1y agoCalling JetBrains IDEs "VS Code clones" is the most batshit insane thing I've read regarding editors and IDEs as a whole.
- MarkOSullivan 1y agoHow does JetBrains AI compare to Cursor?
- williamzeng0 1y agoI think they're getting there but missing big features like a high quality "Apply" workflow and next-edit predictions. I'm working with two of my friends to fill the missing pieces as a JetBrains plugin: https://docs.sweep.dev/ https://docs.sweep.dev/
- pauleveritt 1y agoThat's cool that you're looking at those things. I hope we've made progress on "Apply" (and we're doing more.) And as heads-up, as you can imagine, we're looking at NEP.
- skerit 1y agoI'd like to know more about what is powering Junie under the hood. > According to SWEBench Verified, a curated benchmark of 500 developer tasks, Junie can solve 53.6% of tasks on a single run That's nice I guess, but why isn't this an entry on the actual https://www.swebench.com/#verified https://www.swebench.com/#verified website? (Also: 53% isn't that impressive these days, Claude Sonnet can reach 63%)
- mfro 1y agoThis quote claims it is 'powered by Claude' “JetBrains and Anthropic share a commitment to transforming how developers work. Developers rely on Claude’s state-of-the-art performance in solving complex, real-world coding tasks. We’re excited to see how Junie, powered by Claude, will help the global developer community create innovative things within the trusted JetBrains IDEs that customers love.” Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer, Anthropic Kind of confusingly, in today's release of Rider 'Junie' is mentioned nowhere I can find. The AI assistant tab, which was already available (paid), just has options to pick from popular models (4o, o1, o3, Gemini, Claude) or LM Studio / Ollama
- t-redactyl 1y agoJunie isn't available for all of the IDEs yet, so it's not yet available in Rider. As of today it's available for PyCharm, IntelliJ, WebStorm and GoLand: https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/ https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/
- kgilpin 1y agoIn my experience working on JB extensions, Rider is the most different of the IDEs. Most people think of just IntelliJ and that’s the same code base as eg PyCharm. But Rider seems substantially different.
- snuxoll 1y agoThe biggest difference between the language-specific IDEs in my experience is how they expose the project structure, with GoLand, PyCharm, etc. providing a much more directory centric workflow while Rider by nature has to work around .sln and .*proj files. But Rider is uniquely weird in its use of ReSharper for code analysis.
- shmatt 1y agoJunie has been amazing for me, completely replaced my payments for Claude Code and Cursor. And it was free (until today). It's the least aggressive agent i've used, no complete re-writes or even close, And is able to achieve about 95% of what I ask of it The only downside - which might be fixed in the newest release - is that it completely forgets context between messages - even in the same message window. But that feels like both cost cutting and easy to fix My biggest issues with Claude Code and Cursor for what its worth: Claude Code: Price, plus when it doesnt get things right, within a few messages it ALWAYS just creates a new file entry point with some demo console.logs that do nothing but show messages, and claims to have succeeded in what I asked Cursor: Will break some functionality in my web application while fixing or creating others, about 80% of the time
- _bin_ 1y agoCursor results are going to depend heavily on the model; Gemini 2.5 pro exp seems the overall strongest. You’re probably defaulting to 3.7 sonnet which is completely unusable; it was good at first but I am convinced anthropic “updated” (degraded) it behind the scenes to lower their inference costs. OpenAI did the same with GPT-4o for a bit a while back before making it better again. 3.7 also seems to have converged more on the hybrid reddit user/npr listener/HR lady tone and manner of speaking that makes me want to punch a wall. Genuinely people could probably increase LLM usage just by fixing this problem and banning r*fit from the training set.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 1y agoI've seen evidence that suggests this is false, and that it's more likely that cursor degraded the experience in their context window to save on costs. The date stamped models haven't had any evidence of ever changing or degrading, to my knowledge. Aider did a test for this as well.
- basejumping 1y agoIs there a way to use Claude within the Jetbrains IDEs? I have a Jetbrains IDE license, and a Claude subscription, but I couldn't find an integration. To use Claude and have it integrated I need to subscribe to Jebtbrains AI instead, but then I don't have Claude in the browser anymore.
- khaledh 1y agoSummary: - JetBrains AI tools (AI Assistant and Junie coding agent) are now available under a single subscription starting with version 2025.1. - There are three tiers: AI Free, AI Pro, and AI Ultimate. - The free tier offers unlimited code completion, local AI models, and credit-based access to cloud AI assistance and Junie. - AI Assistant supports Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro. - Junie is powered by Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI models. It's not clear whether AI Free will be available in Community Edition IDEs or not. Update: From the AI Plans & Pricing page, there's a tooltip that says: "The free tier is not available in the Community Editions of PyCharm and IntelliJ IDEA."
- pdpi 1y ago> On top of all that, the All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscriptions will now come with AI Pro included. Well, colour me surprised. I've used JetBrains as an an example of a pretty decent company in the past (e.g. the way they remind you your subscription is up for renewal a couple of months in advance, so you have all the time in the world to unsub if you like), but I wasn't expecting them to just add this to the existing subscriptions.
- blibble 1y agoyou can read this as no-one was buying the addon they'll eat the cost for a year or two, then bump up the subscription price to pay for it
- pdpi 1y agoI honestly doubt that’s the plan. They’ve bumped up the price once in all the years I’ve been subscribed to the All Tools pack. When they did that, they gave existing subscribers the option to buy two years’ subscription at the old price.
- lolinder 1y agoYeah, JetBrains has so far been incredibly good to their users, and it sure seems like they know that that has been their primary competitive advantage in a landscape dominated by free editors. Hopefully that calculation stays the same in the AI world.
- singularity2001 1y agoI did;) unsubscribed every second month and resubscribed to see if it got better. now included, nice!
- recursivedoubts 1y agoYou can add a .noai file to the root of your project to disable AI support. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.htm... Errr, that 404s now. I hope the functionality still works. Here's the cached version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250329143832/https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.html#restrict-ai-assistant-usage-for-project https://web.archive.org/web/20250329143832/https://www.jetbr... > Restrict usage of AI Assistant for a project Create an empty file named .noai in the root directory of the project. > When this file is present, all AI Assistant features are fully disabled for the project. Even if this project is opened in another IDE, the AI Assistant features will not be available.
- mistrial9 1y agolike phones, they will make you take the AI.. it is a collar around your neck!
- Aurornis 1y agoThe AI feature is also opt-in, so you have to take steps to enable it. The .noai file is helpful when you have specific projects that need to be excluded from AI tools.
- recursivedoubts 1y agoI teach and absolutely must be able to disable AI for my student projects otherwise the students learn very little and are lead down false paths constantly
- mike_hearn 1y agoIt's pretty surprising that they're willing to charge a flat rate rather than by token, but great news for users. It's inevitable that you get annoyed at AI when it consumes tokens and generates a bad answer, or starts reading files that aren't fully relevant. The flat rate takes away that bad taste. The business modelling behind it must be quite intense, I hope this doesn't blow up in JetBrains' face if Junie's usage patterns change over time. JetBrains are in a great position to do this though, perhaps the best position. Whereas a tool like Claude Code or Aider can give the LLM grep and little else [1], Junie can give the LLM a kind of textual API to the IDE's own static analysis database. If Claude/GPT want to understand what a function is doing and how it's used, it could issue a tool call that brings up nicely rendered API docs and nothing else, it could issue a tool call to navigate into it and read just the function body and so on. And they can use the IDE to check whether the code complies with the language rules more or less instantly without needing to do a full compile to pick up on hallucinated APIs or syntax errors. So much potential with this kind of integration, all that stuff is barely the start. [1] Aider attempts to build a "repo map" using a PageRank over symbols extracted by tree-sitter, but it never worked well for me.
- Ocha 1y agoIt is by token - you get quota of tokens that once used up, disables your cloud integration
- lolinder 1y agoWhere are you reading this? I see there's a concept of "credits" but don't see any explanation of what a credit is.
- jwortmann719 1y agoit is token based AFAIK, but we will provide some more information around credits/quota/tokens for the different price tiers in the coming days/weeks
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- ihuk 1y agoGreat --now it’s going to use even more memory.
- mort96 1y agoHappy I never jumped on the JetBrains bandwagon... I was curious about Z̶i̶g̶ Zed, until they too started adding AI garbage. Sad. Luckily, I can be fairly confident that my trusty neovim will never add AI garbage unless I specifically go out of my way to install plug-ins. EDIT: Zed, not Zig
- speed_spread 1y agoYou don't _have_ to use the AI stuff, personally I've disabled all of it because my fan was spinning like crazy. Maybe in a year or two I'll try it again.
- Nullabillity 1y agoYou're still stuck paying for the garbage regardless, and funding an organization that thinks this is an acceptable business direction.
- speed_spread 1y agoI was already a satisfied paying customer. I don't need that new stuff but I understand they have to go where the market goes if they want to stay relevant vs competitors (Microsoft VSCode/Github/Copilot) in the eyes of prospective customers who judge products using comparative feature grids. If you don't want to use an IDE or pay for your tools that's fine. You don't have to look for reasons to hate on it. No one cares what you don't use.
- Nullabillity 1y ago> I don't need that new stuff but I understand they have to go where the market goes if they want to stay relevant vs competitors Looking at the people racing to jump off the cliff and saying "let's maybe consider not doing that" can be an competitive advantage, see https://procreate.com/ai https://procreate.com/ai
- dakiol 1y agoFor now, I pressume. I guess it's a matter of time until the AI features can no longer be disabled.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoI used JetBrains AI for about a year, it was pretty good to basically help me to scaffold things, it felt like instructing a Junior developer, which isn't bad, saved me time for side projects. Some observations from the pricingpage: https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-ides/buy/?section=personal&billing=monthly https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-ides/buy/?section=personal&bill... * They say free for all IDEs except the community version of PyCharm and IntelliJ. * Looks like if you want to use your own LLM you need to be an enterprise user? None of the lower tiers allow for it, I find this really, really dumb, if I'm paying for compute, why can't I also run my own LLM? Am I misunderstanding this? * ReSharper and Android Studio don't fall under the credit system? I really would like to know what that means.
- qskousen 1y agoFrom the blog post, it seems to say that the free tier of the AI assistant and Junie both allow using local models. I haven't tried it myself, though.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoAh thank you, I'll have to experiment with this when I get home. I mostly use this stuff for personal projects.
- AlienRobot 1y agoI just downloaded IntelliJ community edition yesterday to try Kotlin. I wonder if this applies to it or only to premium version.
- qskousen 1y agoCommunity editions don't get the free tier, only paid editions.
- AlienRobot 1y agoI see. Thanks!
- ldjkfkdsjnv 1y agoSince the ukraine war, jet brains products have gone way down hill. Their best engineers were in ukraine. The IDEs have become buggy and slow, sad to see this once very polished software lose relevance
- rozhok 1y agoMost of JetBrains engineers was russians located in st. Petersburg. Since the war started, JetBrains claimed they've relocated all workforce from russia. There was no JetBrains offices in Ukraine.
- jayd16 1y agoWah? From my perspective it's only continued to be great but I look at intellij and Rider only.
- BjoernKW 1y agoThat's not true. At least not based on their R&D locations back then. Most of those were in Russia. They quickly - and rightfully so - closed these locations down when the war started and moved their activities elsewhere.
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- singularity2001 1y agoPutin is killing one of the best software products out there?! I was hoping Junie is very slow only because it's overwhelmed by the first wave of users trying it out.
- singularity2001 1y agoAny MCP? … Yes and it works great! (except that it's currently pretty slow probably because servers are overloaded) Except for Junie. MCP not available for/in Junie?
- jwortmann719 1y agoCorrect, MCP is not used in Junie yet, but it's something we are looking into. Comments like this help us better gauge general interest, so highly appreciate this!
- mhb 1y agoDumb question? How come in PyCharm when I go to update, it only offers me v2024.3.5 and not v2025.1?
- t-redactyl 1y agoWhere are you updating from? Toolbox, or from the website? I'm seeing 2025.1 in both, so you might have some caching if you're checking the website.
- mhb 1y agoThe Help..Check for Updates in PyCharm. I got Toolbox, so, problem worked around. Thanks.
- t-redactyl 1y agoYou're very welcome! Enjoy the new release, there's quite a few fun new features.
- mdaniel 1y agoAside from the Toolbox answer, even within the Toolbox it was previously two separate actual installations of PyCharm (community and professional) but starting in 2025 they're now just one install, and it switches behavior based on your authentication https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/#:~:text=PyCharm%20is%20now%20one%20unified%20product! https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/#:~:text=PyCharm%...
- ai-christianson 1y agoIMO I much prefer to have my dev tools be completely FOSS so I'm not building my career on skills that are tied to a proprietary sw provider.
- tasuki 1y agoMe too, though I think it's a personal preference rather than an economically rational decision.
- ai-christianson 1y ago> rather than an economically rational decision Depends on the time horizon
- mike_hearn 1y agoJetBrains has outlasted most of the fully open source IDEs out there. Open source IDEs tend to suck and be abandoned after a while because there's no incentive to keep maintaining it, and it's expensive. See: NetBeans, Eclipse. AFAIK the only IDEs in wide use today are open-core, like JetBrains' IDEs.
- esafak 1y agoI got confused by the Go in the title; "But their Go IDE is called GoLand?" They should not have capitalized it. Anyway, has anyone compared Junie with competing products?
- Medicineguy 1y agoI understand the confusion as I was confused myself for the same reason. I also attributed that to my english language level. But I think they just used title-case[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
- esafak 1y agoShort, minor words are usually not capitalized, as stated in the wiki article; esp. if they would cause confusion!
- nirvdrum 1y agoAs far as I know, that rule doesn't apply to verbs. Do you have a style guide that indicates otherwise? I know it looks like I'm trying to correct someone's grammar online, but I'm legitimately trying to learn. Your comment made me curious so I searched for a bit but couldn't come up with anything.
- butz 1y agoDoes IntelliJ provide coding models that run offline? Or third party provider should be used?
- t-redactyl 1y agoYou can use Ollama or LM Studio locally. There is also code completion running on local models which is built into the IDE and comes bundled for free with IntelliJ.
- mgkimsal 1y agoI don't think they provide any directly, but let you connect to a local ollama or lm studio instance. https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-ides/buy/ https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-ides/buy/ The 'ai models' section indicates this.
- mgkimsal 1y ago"JetBrains Junie is now publicly available to all our IDE users." Only for IntelliJ, WebStorm and PyCharm, so far. I've been paying for the basic AI Assistant for months now, and am glad to see a bit more clarity around this.
- mgkimsal 1y agoSeparate note... I don't know when "AI Pro" became bundled with the "all products pack" but I don't think it was there last year. I've been paying for it separately for a bit now, but a couple days ago I noticed 2 licenses showing up in the 'AI Assistant' tab. Was able to just cancel the monthly one, and use the one from 'all products pack'. May look to upgrade again when the Junie stuff becomes available in the other IDEs.
- denismi 1y ago> The AI Free tier gives you unlimited code completion and access to local AI models Looking forward to giving this a try. Work provides me with tooling and requires that I stick to approved AI tools, and my hobby-coding alone is just not important or regular enough to justify a paid subscription. It's been a little annoying that I can have ollama running locally, enable ollama and configure it in my IDE, but still (seemingly?) not be able to make use of it without activating a paid AI Assistant license. It makes perfect sense that cloud models would require payment, and that JetBrains would make some margin on that. But I'm already paying for an IDE whose headline features have recently been so AI-focused, and if I'm also providing the compute, then I should really be able to use those features.
- jwortmann719 1y agoYou are getting the AI FRee tier with any paid license for a JetBrains IDE and as you stated it should work with local AI models. I looked through our internal documentation, and I couldn't find anything that stated anything different. If you run into issues, please open a YouTrack ticket and we can have a better discussion/look at what's going on, but with everything I see, I'd expect it to work the way you think.
- l11r 1y agoAI assistant license is now included even in Free tier so you should be able to use Ollama without any problem after 2025.1 release.
- singularity2001 1y agoEarly days! Code changes break by including meta information, like: The provided snippet is a modification of the original code, with some changes … Here's the complete code file after applying these changes: ```python
- scottjad 1y agoDoes JetBrains have an equivalent of Next Edit Suggestions (VSCode) / Edit Prediction (Zed) / "Tab, tab, tab" (Cursor)?
- rgbrenner 1y agono. junie is decent as an agent, despite it being slow (i’d put it between cursor and windsurf/copilot on quality).. but the autocomplete is anemic. they have to improve their ability to generate suggestions at all before they can start recommending next edits.
- williamzeng0 1y agonot yet - but it's fairly straightforward to implement the UI once you get the AI down. i've been working on an MVP here: https://docs.sweep.dev/autocomplete#next-edit-prediction-in-progress https://docs.sweep.dev/autocomplete#next-edit-prediction-in-...
- pauleveritt 1y ago(I'm from JetBrains.) Let's just say, watch this space.
- singularity2001 1y agoI set 'codebase off' but it keeps adding random files as attachment!?! This (?) also makes requests VERY slow!
- KronisLV 1y agoOh hey, they've worked some more on the features: https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-assistant/ https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-assistant/ And it's available with the all products pack: https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-ides/buy/?section=personal&billing=monthly https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-ides/buy/?section=personal&bill... I think I'll be more than happy to try it out then cause I have that pack and compare it against the Github Copilot plugin, or the likes of Continue.dev (which was pretty good in VS Code, but kind of buggy in JetBrains IDEs).
- pauleveritt 1y agoWe've come a long way with AI Assistant in the last few months. Lots more planned.
- KronisLV 1y agoThat's awesome to hear, best of luck!
- comrade1234 1y agoI currently have the $100/yr license for IntelliJ ai integration. I assume nothing changes? (Very happy with it)
- comrade1234 1y agoIt’s a little confusing. I have the all-products pack but a month ago paid $100 for the ai package which is supposed to be included now in the all-products pack. So I should get a $100 credit or bumped up to the next level ai package. I’ll send a support request out tomorrow.
- cwbriscoe 1y agoI have been playing with it for a couple of hours. I have the All Product Pack which includes the AI Pro tier for free. You can hook up local models easily as well using Ollama or LM Studio. This seems better than both Continue.dev and Copilot. I will probably be cancelling my copilot subscription before the current year is up.
- thenickdude 1y agoThe free tier now supports connecting to local AI models running on LM Studio or Ollama, but it still doesn't actually function without an internet connection. If you block access to the internet or to their AI API servers [1], it refuses to start a new chat invocation. If you block access halfway through a conversation, the conversation continues just fine, so there's no technical barrier to them actually running offline, they just don't allow it. Their settings page also says that they can't even guarantee that they implemented the offline toggle properly, a flag that should be the easiest thing in the world to enforce: >Prevents most remote calls, prioritizing local models. Despite these safeguards, rare instances of cloud usage may still occur. So you can't even block access to the very servers that they say their faulty offline toggle would leak data to. [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/disable-ai-assistant.html#disable-ai-assistant-on-network-level https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/disable-ai-assis...
- eclectric 1y agoI disconnect from the internet sometimes and noticed this morning that my previous night's chat was invisible. I could only see it once I connected again. This puts me off a bit to finally try local models. Anyone know what kind data is collected in those rare instances of cloud usage?
- t-redactyl 1y agoHi, here are our data collection policies for the cloud-based LLMs. We've worked out agreements that heavily restrict how third party companies can use your data, including not storing it or using it for model training: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai/data-collection-and-use-policy.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai/data-collection-and-use-po...