Amazon Q Developer
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveAWS's coding and operations assistant for IDEs, the terminal and the console, with its IDE plugins now on an end-of-support clock.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $19/seat/mo
- Billing
- Per seat, monthly
Free tier at $0 includes 50 agentic requests and 1,000 lines of Java transformation a month. Pro is $19 per user per month with higher agentic limits, 4,000 transformation lines per user pooled across the account, $0.003 per extra line, IAM Identity Center admin controls and IP indemnity.
Use tool ↗About Amazon Q Developer
Amazon Q Developer answers questions about AWS services, writes and reviews code, scans for vulnerabilities and generates tests inside JetBrains, Visual Studio, VS Code and Eclipse, in the terminal through a CLI with autocompletion and chat, and in the AWS console and its mobile app. Agentic tasks can read and edit files, produce diffs and run shell commands with the developer approving along the way, and transformation agents upgrade Java applications and port .NET workloads from Windows to Linux. It also surfaces in Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub and GitLab Duo. The product page now carries an end-of-support notice: AWS will stop supporting the IDE plugins on 30 April 2027 and points developers to Kiro, its agentic IDE, for chat, agents and MCP support.
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Free tier $0 per user per month with 50 agentic requests and 1,000 lines of Java transformation; Pro $19 per user per month with 4,000 pooled lines, $0.003 per extra line, IAM Identity Center admin dashboards and IP indemnity (15 October 2026)aws.amazon.com ↗
- Product page end-of-support notice: 'On April 30, 2027, AWS will discontinue support for Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins' and directs users to Kiro; lists JetBrains, Visual Studio, VS Code, Eclipse, CLI, console, mobile app, Teams, Slack, GitHub and GitLab Duo (15 October 2026)aws.amazon.com ↗
- AWS News Blog of 30 April 2024 announcing the general availability of Amazon Q Developer after its preview the previous year (read 15 October 2026)aws.amazon.com ↗
Is Amazon Q Developer legit?
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- Domain registered
- Nov 1, 1994 (31 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar MarkMonitor Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Amazon, valid until Mar 4, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2024The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Amazon Web Services, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Amazon Q Developer
If your code runs on AWS, Q Developer is the assistant that knows the services, the console and your account, and the free tier is generous enough to use daily. But AWS has announced the end of support for its IDE plugins on 30 April 2027 and is steering developers to Kiro, so adopting Q Developer in the editor today means planning a migration within eighteen months. Use it for the CLI, console and the Java and .NET transformation jobs, which have no equivalent elsewhere, and start new editor workflows on whatever AWS says replaces it.
Pros
- Free tier with 50 agentic requests and 1,000 lines of transformation a month, no card
- Transformation agents for Java upgrades and .NET-to-Linux porting that general assistants lack
- Present in IDEs, CLI, console, mobile console app, Slack, Teams, GitHub and GitLab
- Pro at $19 per user adds admin dashboards, pooled transformation lines and IP indemnity
Cons
- End-of-support notice for the IDE plugins dated 30 April 2027, with Kiro named as the successor
- Agentic request limits on Free and Pro are stated loosely rather than as a number on Pro
- Value drops sharply outside AWS-centric codebases
- No public API found for the assistant itself
Best for
- Teams building on AWS who want console, CLI and IDE help that understands their account
- Java 8 and 11 estates and Windows .NET workloads that need bulk upgrade or porting
- Enterprises that need IAM Identity Center controls and IP indemnity on an assistant
Not for
- Developers choosing an editor assistant for the long run; the IDE plugins lose support in April 2027
- Teams whose stack is not on AWS, where the service-specific knowledge adds little
Watch out: The IDE plugins have a published end-of-support date of 30 April 2027; budget migration time to Kiro or another assistant before locking a team's workflow to the Q Developer extensions.
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