According to DevTools Review's hands-on testing across 11 AI coding tools, our Cursor vs JetBrains AI comparison has a Pricing Verdict section that no longer holds up: "At the same $20/month commercial price point, Cursor includes the full editor, while JetBrains AI's Commercial tier is an add-on to an IDE subscription you're already paying for separately." JetBrains restructured its pricing since we wrote that, and the "same $20 price point" framing the whole verdict rests on is gone.
What the page still says
The comparison (live now) describes JetBrains AI as two flat tiers: Personal at $10/month, Commercial at $20/month, no free option, licensed on top of a separate JetBrains IDE subscription. We used that "$20 vs $20, but Cursor includes the editor" framing to call the pricing round for Cursor.
What actually changed
JetBrains AI Assistant now runs four tiers on a credits system, not two flat unlocks:
- AI Free — $0. Unlimited local completion (Ollama/LM Studio) plus 3 AI Credits per 30 days for cloud-model use.
- AI Pro — $10/month individual (10 credits), $20/month for organizations (20 credits).
- AI Ultimate — $30/month individual (35 credits), $60/month for organizations (70 credits).
- AI Enterprise — custom.
The part that actually breaks our verdict: multiple independent trackers now report AI Pro ships free with the All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscriptions — the exact "add-on to a subscription you're already paying for" cost our comparison counted against JetBrains. For a developer already on those plans, JetBrains AI's effective added cost is now $0, not $20.
Why we're flagging this instead of just fixing the number
jetbrains.com is unreachable from our verification tooling right now, so we can't quote JetBrains' pricing page directly. What we have is consistent corroboration across independent trackers (aiproductivity.ai, stackpick.net, uragent.org, checkthat.ai) and a JetBrains community-forum thread describing exactly this bundling behavior firsthand. Strong signal, not a primary-source confirmation — treat the numbers as very likely correct, not vendor-verified by us directly.
What doesn't change
The rest of the comparison holds: Cursor's Tab completion is still faster and more aggressive, and Junie — JetBrains' agent — still wins on inspection-clean correctness for Java/Kotlin because it executes through IntelliJ's actual refactoring engine instead of text-level edits. We asked both agents to add pagination support to a set of Spring Boot REST endpoints; Junie found the endpoints, built a shared utility, updated the service and repository layers, and fixed two test failures on its own. That mechanism advantage is unaffected by pricing.
The pricing round specifically needs a rewrite: for a developer already paying for the All Products Pack, JetBrains AI is no longer the more expensive option.
Full comparison: https://devtoolsreview.com/comparisons/cursor-vs-jetbrains-ai-2026/
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