Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer

AWS's AI coding assistant, providing code suggestions, vulnerability scanning, and agentic development capabilities in IDEs, the CLI, and the AWS console.

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Last Updated 10/21/2026

About Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer is AWS's AI coding assistant for developers. It provides inline code suggestions, vulnerability scanning, and conversational Q&A in mainstream IDEs, and also offers command-line autocompletion and AI chat in the terminal. Its agentic capabilities can autonomously complete a range of tasks, including implementing features, writing documentation, testing, code review, refactoring, and performing software upgrades, covering multiple stages of the software development lifecycle.

Best for

Developers building applications on AWS
Developers using IDEs such as JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, VS Code, or Eclipse
Developers who frequently work in the terminal (local or SSH)

Best use cases

Get inline suggestions and vulnerability scanning while writing code in the IDE

Need command autocompletion and AI Q&A in the terminal

Want to automate development tasks such as implementing features, writing documentation, testing, code review, refactoring, or software upgrades

Features

Code suggestions and vulnerability scanning in the IDE

Provides inline code suggestions, vulnerability scanning, and chat features in IDEs such as JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, VS Code, and Eclipse (preview).

CLI autocompletion and AI chat in the terminal

Get command-line autocompletion and AI chat in local terminals and terminals connected via SSH.

Agentic development tasks

Agentic capabilities can autonomously implement features, write documentation, test, review, and refactor code, as well as perform software upgrades.

Pros

  • Covers multiple work scenarios including IDEs, the CLI, and the AWS console
  • Agentic capabilities can autonomously complete tasks such as implementation, testing, review, refactoring, and upgrades

Pricing Plans

AWS Free Tier

$0Monthly
  • 50 agentic chat interactions per month
  • Up to 1,000 lines of code transformed per month

* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on Amazon Q Developer's official website.

FAQ

Yes. The AWS Free Tier offers a perpetual free allowance, including 50 agentic chat interactions and up to 1,000 lines of code transformation per month.
The supported environments listed on the official page include JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, VS Code, and Eclipse (in preview); for the command line, it supports local terminals and terminals connected via SSH.

Tool Information

DeveloperAmazon Q Developer
Release Date10/21/2026
Pricingfree