JetBrains AI runs on a credit system layered under the usual free-to-enterprise ladder, and that credit mechanic is the part worth understanding before you compare it against the flat-fee competitors in this tracker.
Every paid tier is billed per user. Since September 2026 AI Pro and AI Ultimate can be paid monthly or yearly, with yearly billing worth two free months; AI Enterprise is still annual only. AI Free costs nothing and includes 3 AI credits every 30 days, which covers IDE-native code completion, Next Edit Suggestions, and AI chat at a light pace, alongside the ability to bring your own API key from OpenAI or Anthropic with no JetBrains subscription required at all. That BYOK path exists on every tier, including Free, so you can skip the credit system entirely and pay providers directly if that’s a better fit for your usage pattern.
AI Pro is $10 per user per month, or $100 per user per year, and includes 10 AI credits every 30 days, described by JetBrains as “enough credits for occasional agent use.” It also comes with a 30-day free trial bundled into any JetBrains IDE purchase, so you get a real trial period before paying anything. AI Ultimate roughly triples the credit allowance to 35 per 30 days for $30 per user per month or $300 per user per year, aimed explicitly at “frequent coding agent use” rather than occasional completion and chat. Both tiers let you buy additional credits anytime you run out before the 30-day reset, at a straightforward rate of one credit per US dollar, and those top-up credits stay valid for 12 months from purchase.
AI Enterprise sits apart from the self-serve tiers. It’s priced at $720 per user per year but sold through a demo request rather than a straight “Buy” button, and it’s positioned as part of JetBrains’ broader IDE Services offering rather than a standalone AI product. What you get beyond Ultimate’s credit allowance is enterprise security and administration: on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment options, advanced user and group access management through SSO and SCIM, custom AI integrations, and AI audit logs. If your organization needs to keep model traffic inside your own infrastructure or needs formal procurement and compliance sign-off, Enterprise is the tier built for that conversation, not a credit-volume upgrade.
The credit-based model changes how you should think about “how much does this cost me” compared to a flat per-seat SaaS price. A developer who leans heavily on Junie (JetBrains’ own coding agent) or the built-in Claude Agent and Codex integrations will burn through credits faster than someone using mostly inline completions and occasional chat, even on the same subscription tier. That’s structurally similar to Cursor’s usage-pool model, except JetBrains meters at the IDE level across a broader set of AI workflows (inline docs, commit message generation, rename refactoring, and the agent products) rather than isolating usage to a single agent feature.
Teams comparing this against other subscription tools should know that JetBrains publishes these prices in US dollars (its buy page notes that 1 AI Credit is worth USD 1.00, charged in your local currency). The yearly price works out to $8.33 a month on Pro and $25 on Ultimate, against $10 and $30 paid monthly. If your organization already runs JetBrains IDEs for Java, Kotlin, or .NET development, AI Pro is the sensible default starting point given the trial period, with a straightforward upgrade path to Ultimate once a developer’s actual agent usage starts running past the 10-credit monthly allowance. Teams centered on VS Code rather than JetBrains IDEs will likely find less value here, since the credit system and Junie agent are built specifically around the JetBrains IDE experience rather than being editor-agnostic.
It’s also worth pricing JetBrains AI alongside a plain JetBrains IDE license rather than in isolation, since bundles like the All Products Pack fold AI Pro into a broader toolkit subscription at a combined price rather than as a pure add-on. Organizations already paying for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, Rider, or the full IDE suite may find that stepping up to a bundle with AI Pro included costs less incrementally than buying JetBrains AI as a standalone subscription on top of separate IDE licenses, so it’s worth checking your existing JetBrains spend before treating the AI tiers above as an isolated line item.