According to DevTools Review's hands-on testing across 11 AI coding tools, a correction before anything else: our JetBrains AI review has spent months calling the pricing "genuinely frustrating" — a $10-20/month subscription bolted onto an already-expensive IDE, with no free tier and no bundling into the All Products Pack. That complaint is now out of date. JetBrains restructured the whole model, and the specific thing we said "erodes goodwill" no longer applies.
What we said (and what's stale about it)
Our review, still live: Personal is $10/month, Commercial is $20/month, there's no free tier, and — direct quote — "developers who already pay $250/year for the full JetBrains suite have to pay more for AI." We called that an upsell that should be included in the IDE license.
What actually changed
JetBrains AI Assistant now ships four tiers instead of two, tied to a credits system rather than a flat unlock:
- AI Free — $0. Unlimited local code completion (via Ollama/LM Studio), context-aware chat, and 3 AI Credits per 30 days for cloud-model use.
- AI Pro — $10/month individual ($20/month for organizations), 10 AI Credits per 30 days (20 for orgs).
- AI Ultimate — $30/month individual ($60/month for organizations), 35 AI Credits per 30 days (70 for orgs).
- AI Enterprise — custom pricing.
The line our review specifically flagged as a goodwill problem is the one that changed most: multiple independent trackers now report AI Pro is bundled at no extra cost with the All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscriptions — the exact "why isn't this just included" complaint we made in March.
Why we're not treating this as settled fact
jetbrains.com is unreachable from our verification tooling right now, so we can't quote JetBrains' own pricing page directly — the same access gap we've flagged before. What we have instead is consistent corroboration across six independent trackers (aiproductivity.ai, stackpick.net, uragent.org, checkthat.ai, vibecompare.dev, and JetBrains' own community forum, where a user describes paying for Pro and then seeing it turn free once they had the All Products Pack) plus the title of JetBrains' own licensing help page turning up unprompted in search. That's a strong signal, not a primary-source confirmation, so treat the exact numbers as "very likely correct, not vendor-verified by us directly."
One more figure worth flagging with the same caveat: several of those same trackers now list the All Products Pack itself at $299/year, up from the $250/year our review cited — we can't confirm that one directly either.
What held up
The parts of our review that were about the product rather than the price tag are unaffected. Junie, the IDE-integrated coding agent, still does the thing that impressed us in testing — we gave it "add pagination support to all list endpoints in the user management module," it found eight endpoints, built a shared pagination utility, updated services and repository queries, ran the tests, caught two failures of its own making (an off-by-one and a missing fixture), and fixed both. That's still the differentiator: an agent that uses IntelliJ's actual refactoring and inspection engine instead of doing text-level edits.
Full corrected review: https://devtoolsreview.com/reviews/jetbrains-ai-review/
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