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JetBrains AI Assistant

JetBrains AI

An AI assistant built into all JetBrains IDEs offering completions, chat, and an agentic coding mode.

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The read

JetBrains AI Assistant is embedded across the full JetBrains IDE family, including IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, and Rider, bringing inline completions, chat grounded in your project, and Junie, the agentic mode that can plan and execute multi-step coding tasks. It uses a credit-based model that scales from a free quota of local completions up to $30 per month for frontier model access. Because it operates inside IDEs developers already own, there is no new editor to learn. The credit system can deplete quickly on complex agent tasks, which may surprise users who assumed a flat fee.

Where it shines

  • Native integration across all JetBrains IDEs with no extension needed
  • Junie agentic mode plans and executes multi-step coding tasks
  • Free tier includes unlimited local completions via Ollama or LM Studio

Worth knowing first

  • AI credits run out fast on frontier model or agent usage
  • Enterprise features require the $60 per user per month plan

Index score

72.6

Provisional. This score is read from the product's public capability, not from the one-prompt rebuild the fully reviewed entries went through, so treat it as a placing rather than a verdict.

Craft77
Speed71
Control72
Value69
Rank
48 of 54
Builds
Tools
Category
AI code editor
Output
Inline completion, chat, and agentic mode inside JetBrains IDEs
Pricing
Free tier
Best for
Java and JVM developers already in the JetBrains ecosystem

Scores are our own editorial judgement, weighted craft 30, speed 25, control 25 and value 20.

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