- Jan 2025 Rung 2 · Soft meter
- Apr 2025 → now Rung 3 · Hard allotment 2025.1 tiers (AI Free/Pro/Ultimate) with a monthly quota; FAQ archived 16 Apr 2025: cloud features 'paused until your quota resets … or until you upgrade'; no top-up
Moved across the continuum this window — pattern: Migrate.
The short version It walked its existing product rightward, from access pricing toward usage pricing.
The verdict
JetBrains AI began the window as a fair-use product. The 2 December 2024 pricing page priced JetBrains AI Pro at $10.00 a month or $100.00 a year for individuals ($20/$200 commercial), with no Ultimate tier, and the 7 December 2024 licensing page described the quota as "dynamically evaluated" rather than "a strict limit", reset weekly, and extended by support on request — a meter that did not bite. The 2025.1 release hardened it: the 16 April 2025 FAQ introduced AI Free, AI Pro and AI Ultimate with a monthly cloud quota and stated that when it is used up "cloud-powered features are paused until your quota resets … or until you upgrade", with no way to buy more. On 14 August 2025 JetBrains announced a re-denomination starting 18 August, then moved the start to 25 August by editing the same post (Wayback copies of 14 and 24 August 2025): each subscription gets AI Credits equal to its price (AI Ultimate $30 carries $35), one credit equals USD 1.00, top-ups last 12 months, and "quotas for some plans are getting smaller". Docs archived 25 August 2025 list AI Free 3, AI Pro 10, AI Ultimate 35 credits per 30 days. The 10 October 2026 capture shows the same prices and allowances; cloud features pause at zero until renewal or a top-up.
Current pricing snapshot
As published on JetBrains's own pages · captured Oct 10, 2026. Unit: AI Credits.
| Plan | Price / mo | Included | At zero | Top-up vs plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Free | Free | 3 | Hard stop | None |
| AI Pro | $10 | 10 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
| AI Ultimate | $30 | 35 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
- Credit ↔ dollar
- Pegged — one credit is a fixed $ amount
- Credit burn rate
- Varies by model / action
- Model choice
- You pick, or auto-routed
- Free tier
- 3 credits, per month
- Billing
- Monthly or annual
- Included credits
- Expire each cycle
- Purchased credits
- Roll over
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What changed
No dated repricing events are itemized for JetBrains in this edition's log (the pricing history is in the verdict above). New moves are added to the change log as they're captured.
Where it's headed
Sourced from JetBrains's official pricing pages and archived snapshots. Primary: pricing page. Method & limits: Methodology & data.