What is Amazon Q Developer?

Amazon Q Developer is AWS's AI coding assistant, with inline code suggestions, chat and agentic coding in IDEs and the command line, plus Java and .NET code transformation. AWS has announced end of support for its IDE plugins and paid subscriptions and points users to Kiro.

Who it's for

AWS's page describes it for developers working in JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, VS Code and Eclipse (preview), and for teams doing Java upgrades or .NET porting. AWS now directs new users and existing IDE users to Kiro.

Pros & cons

Strengths

AWS lists IDE support for JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, VS Code and Eclipse (preview)
Listed features include inline code suggestions, inline chat, agentic coding, unit test generation, vulnerability scanning and AWS guidance
It includes Java upgrade and .NET porting transformation agents
The pricing page lists reference tracking and suppression of public-code suggestions on both tiers
The Pro tier includes an admin dashboard and IP indemnity, which the Free tier does not

Limitations

AWS says new sign-ups were blocked from 15 May 2026: no new Free Tier accounts in the IDE plugins and no new subscriptions in the AWS Console. Adding seats to an existing Pro subscription is still allowed
The IDE plugins and paid subscriptions reach end of support on 30 April 2027, and Java and .NET transformation in the plugins will no longer be accessible after that date
The Free tier has 50 agentic requests a month and 1,000 lines of transformation code a month, and its IDE limits apply only to AWS Builder ID users
Pro agentic requests are listed as included with limits and no number is published. Transformation is 4,000 lines per user a month, pooled at the payer account, then $0.003 per extra line
AWS says that from 29 May 2026 one older Claude model is no longer available on Pro, and that its latest coding models are available exclusively on Kiro

Plans and pricing

Free: $0. 50 agentic requests a month and 1,000 lines of code transformation a month. No admin dashboard or IP indemnity. New IDE Free Tier sign-ups have been blocked since 15 May 2026.
Pro: $19 per user a month. Agentic requests included with limits (number not published), 4,000 transformation lines per user a month pooled at account level, admin dashboard, IP indemnity. New subscriptions blocked since 15 May 2026; support ends 30 April 2027.

Prices and limits are from AWS's pricing page, product page, docs and blog; AWS does not state the Pro billing period on the page text we read. The pricing page we retrieved carried no end-of-support notice even though AWS's product page, docs and blog do. AWS says the Q Developer command line has been rebranded to Kiro, and Q Developer in the AWS Console, Slack, Teams and the Console Mobile App is listed as not affected. AWS gives no end date for existing Free tier users. Kiro's own pricing is on kiro.dev. Confirm on the live pages.

Details checked October 2026 against the vendor's own pages. Prices and limits change, so confirm before you buy. Official pricing page ↗

Sources

This profile was compiled from these public pages. We have not run hands-on tests.

Summary