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JetBrains AI cost: what you actually pay
The $10 'AI Pro' sticker is a personal-license price with only 10 AI Credits/month (roughly a day or two of agentic Junie use) — commercial/org seats of the same plan list at double ($20), and heavy users end up buying $1-per-credit top-ups on top of the subscription.
Public pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Free | Free | monthly | 3 AI Credits/30 days, no top-ups; unlimited local/offline completions |
| AI Pro (personal) | $10 / moPersonal (individual) license price | monthly | 10 AI Credits/30 days (~$10 of usage); top-ups available |
| AI Pro (organization seat) | $20 / seat/moBusiness/commercial-purchased seat price on some IDEs, per JetBrains docs | monthly | 20 AI Credits/30 days; top-ups available |
| AI Ultimate (personal) | $30 / moPersonal (individual) license price | monthly | 35 AI Credits/30 days ($5 bonus over price); frontier models (Claude/GPT); full Junie agent access; top-ups available |
| AI Ultimate (organization seat) | $60 / seat/moBusiness/commercial-purchased seat price on some IDEs | monthly | 70 AI Credits/30 days; top-ups available |
| AI Enterprise | $60 / seat/moExact credit quota undisclosed; described as 'on par with Ultimate or higher'; top-ups not yet available | custom | Junie + BYOK options; shared team top-up credit pool; sold as part of JetBrains IDE Services |
AI Pro is bundled free with paid All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscriptions (not with trial/student/OSS/free licenses, and not for China-purchased subscriptions) — some teams pay separately for AI Pro without realizing it's already included. 1 AI Credit ≈ $1 of usage; consumption varies widely by feature (~10 Chat requests, ~40 in-editor completions, or ~280 doc-generation requests per credit), so agentic use (Junie) burns quota far faster than autocomplete. Unused monthly credits do not roll over; only purchased top-up credits carry over, for 12 months.
Last updated: 2026-07-22. Sourced from JetBrains AI Plans & Pricing (official) ↗, JetBrains AI plans and usage (official docs) ↗, A Simpler, More Transparent Model for AI Quotas (JetBrains blog) ↗.
Where the real JetBrains AI cost hides
The sticker is the smallest part of the story. For JetBrains AI, these are the line items that quietly inflate the bill:
- Monthly credit quota resets 30 days from first use (not calendar month) and does not roll over — unused credits are lost
- Same plan name has two list prices (e.g., Pro $10 vs $20) depending on personal vs commercial/organization licensing and IDE
- Junie agent and AI Chat consume credits far faster than simple completions, so Free (3 credits) and even Pro (10 credits) can be exhausted in a single day of agentic work, forcing $1/credit top-up purchases
- AI Pro may already be included free in All Products Pack/dotUltimate — buying it standalone can be redundant spend
What an audit finds on JetBrains AI
Teams provision AI Ultimate seats org-wide 'to be safe' after Pro's small credit quota gets exhausted within days of agentic Junie use, then also buy ad hoc $1/credit top-ups — while some of those same users already had AI Pro bundled free via their All Products Pack license.
Worked example: JetBrains AI at 100 people
Take 100 people on JetBrains AI AI Ultimate (organization seat) at the published $60 per person per month. The seat count is a round number we picked; the price is the one in the table above.
- Monthly
- $6,000
- Annual
- $72,000
- Typically recoverable
- $7,200–$10,800
That last figure is 10 to 15% of seat and subscription spend — the band an audit typically surfaces across public benchmarks and our own sample data, before any metered overage on top. On JetBrains AI it usually arrives as seats nobody has opened in 60 days, which is the cheapest dollar in the stack to get back: nobody loses a capability they were using.
Arithmetic on the published prices above. Your mix will differ — run your own numbers.
JetBrains AI pricing FAQ
Is JetBrains AI Pro really $10/month?
Only for a personal/individual license. Business or commercial-purchased seats of the same 'AI Pro' plan list at $20/month on some IDEs, and Ultimate is $30 personal vs $60 commercial.
What happens when I run out of AI Credits?
Cloud AI features stop working until your 30-day quota resets, unless you buy Top-up AI Credits (roughly $1 per credit, valid 12 months); the no-top-up Free tier simply waits for reset.
Do I need to buy AI Pro separately if I already pay for All Products Pack?
No — paid All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscriptions already include an AI Pro license (exceptions: trial, student, OSS licenses, and China-purchased subscriptions don't qualify).
What does JetBrains AI cost for a team of 100?
At the published $60 per person per month on AI Ultimate (organization seat), 100 people is $6,000 a month, or $72,000 a year. An audit typically finds 10 to 15% of that recoverable — $7,200 to $10,800 a year — mostly as seats nobody has opened in 60 days.
Are these JetBrains AI prices current?
They were last checked against JetBrains AI Plans & Pricing (official) and JetBrains AI plans and usage (official docs) and A Simpler, More Transparent Model for AI Quotas (JetBrains blog) on 2026-07-22. Every price on this page carries that date and a link to its source, and a scheduled check fails our build when any figure goes more than 30 days unverified. Vendors do change pricing between checks — the source link is there so you can confirm before you sign.
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