We keep a pricing page for JetBrains AI Assistant. It still describes a flat Personal ($10/mo) / Commercial ($20/mo) split with no free tier — because that's what was true when we last checked it, back in March. It isn't true anymore, and we didn't catch it until today.
What actually changed
JetBrains restructured AI Assistant into four tiers, corroborated consistently across half a dozen independent pricing trackers (we couldn't reach jetbrains.com directly from where this was checked, so treat this as well-corroborated rather than primary-sourced):
- AI Free — $0. Unlimited local completions, local model support (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp), and 3 AI credits every 30 days for cloud/frontier-model features. No Junie agent access on this tier.
- AI Pro — $10/mo, 10 AI credits/month.
- AI Ultimate — $30/mo (~$20-25/mo billed annually), 35 AI credits/month.
- AI Enterprise — custom pricing.
Credits are the real mechanic now: each tier's dollar price roughly equals its monthly credit allotment, and frontier-model or Junie-agent usage burns through credits fast. That's a genuinely different cost model from "pay a flat fee, use it as much as you want."
The bigger miss: "always separate" isn't always true anymore
Our page's central warning was that AI Assistant is always a separate subscription on top of your IDE license — "they are not bundled." Multiple independent sources now say AI Pro ships included with the All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscriptions. If you're already on one of those plans, the $10/mo Pro tier may already be costing you nothing extra. AI Ultimate still appears to require its own purchase even on those bundles.
That's not a rounding error — it undercuts the page's own "hidden cost" framing for a meaningful chunk of the audience it was written for.
Why this matters beyond one page
None of this is a JetBrains gotcha. It's ours: a pricing page from March, never revisited, quietly wrong by August. If you're pricing out JetBrains AI Assistant right now, use the four-tier/credits numbers above, and check whether your existing JetBrains subscription already includes Pro before assuming it's an extra line item.
We're leaving the corrected numbers here rather than silently editing the live page and pretending we always had it right.
Full page (update pending): https://devtoolsreview.com/pricing/jetbrains-ai-pricing/
