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Amazon Q Developer vs CodeGeeX

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan
Both — Amazon Q Developer has a free plan, CodeGeeX is free to use
Best fit
Amazon Q Developer: Teams building on AWS who want console, CLI and IDE help that understands their account · CodeGeeX: Developers who want an unmetered free assistant across VS Code and JetBrains
Platforms
Amazon Q Developer: VS Code extension, Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android · CodeGeeX: VS Code extension
Trust score
About even — Amazon Q Developer 94, CodeGeeX 90
Status
Both up at our last check (Sep 6, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

Amazon Q DeveloperAWS's coding and operations assistant for IDEs, the terminal and the console, with its IDE plugins now on an end-of-support clock.CodeGeeXFree coding assistant plugin from Zhipu AI for VS Code and JetBrains, with completion, chat and unit-test generation

Side by side

FactAmazon Q DeveloperCodeGeeX
CategoryAI Coding AssistantsAI Coding Assistants
Pricing modelFreemiumFree
Starts at$19/seat/mo—
Trust score94 / 10090 / 100
PlatformsVS Code extension, Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, AndroidVS Code extension
CompanyAmazon Web Services, Inc.Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
Launched20242022
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

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

CodeGeeX

A genuinely free assistant with a wide IDE spread and bilingual English/Chinese prompting, which few Western rivals offer. The catch is provenance and reliability: it is a China-hosted service, the international-facing site is hard to reach, and completion quality trails the current top commercial assistants.

Pros

  • Free for all developers with no seat licensing
  • Covers completion, chat, tests, translation and repo Q&A in one plugin
  • Research lineage is open: Apache-2.0 code and published weights
  • Over 1.3 million installs on the VS Code marketplace alone

Cons

  • Official site is unreliable to reach from outside China
  • Documentation and community skew Chinese-first
  • No documented public API for the assistant service itself

Which one fits

Choose Amazon Q Developer if you need

  • 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

Choose CodeGeeX if you need

  • Developers who want an unmetered free assistant across VS Code and JetBrains
  • Bilingual Chinese/English teams prompting in either language
  • Researchers who value published model weights and code

Amazon Q Developer vs CodeGeeX: the questions people ask

Is Amazon Q Developer cheaper than CodeGeeX?

CodeGeeX is free to use; Amazon Q Developer starts at $19/seat/mo.

Does Amazon Q Developer or CodeGeeX have a free tier?

Both: Amazon Q Developer has a free tier, and CodeGeeX is free to use.

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