Free
$0/mo
50 agentic req/mo (discontinued new signups)
Amazon Q Developer
AWS-native AI coding assistant — transitioning to Kiro in 2027.
Amazon Q Developer is AWS's AI coding assistant — built around deep AWS ecosystem integration, agentic coding across the IDE and CLI, and enterprise-grade security. ⚠️ New signups were blocked on May 15, 2026. Q Developer IDE plugins reach end-of-support on April 30, 2027. AWS's successor is Kiro (kiro.dev), a spec-driven AI IDE that includes all Q Developer capabilities plus agentic specs, hooks, and steering.
+ Pros
- Deepest AWS ecosystem integration — Console chat, resource introspection, CloudWatch, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway
- Real-time AWS Pricing API: natural-language cost queries and live pricing comparisons across services
- Fully autonomous agent (no approval step) for multi-file coding tasks in IDE and CLI
- Security scanning for hardcoded secrets, CVEs, and IaC misconfigurations (CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Personalized cost optimization: rightsizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances via natural language
− Cons
- ⚠️ No new signups from May 15, 2026 — IDE plugins reach end-of-support April 30, 2027
- AWS ecosystem lock-in — minimal value for teams not heavily invested in AWS services
- Transitioning to Kiro (kiro.dev) — investment in Q Developer is a dead end for new users
- Less capable for general coding tasks compared to Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot
- Pro plan at $19/user/mo limited to 1,000 agentic requests/month — insufficient for heavy agentic use
Pricing
Pro
$19/user/mo
1,000 agentic req/mo (discontinued new signups)
Amazon Q Developer is AWS's AI coding assistant, launched in GA at AWS re:Invent 2023 as the successor to CodeWhisperer. It covers the full development lifecycle: real-time inline autocomplete, an agentic coding mode for multi-file tasks, CLI integration, unit test generation, security scanning (detecting secrets, vulnerabilities, and infrastructure misconfigurations), documentation generation, and a deep integration with the AWS Console that no third-party tool can match. The Pro plan at $19/user/mo provides 1,000 agentic requests and 4,000 lines of code transformations per month, plus unlimited inline suggestions.
A significant 2025 evolution made the Q Developer Agent fully autonomous: it no longer requires human intervention to review and approve a work plan before executing. The agent interprets natural language instructions, transparently shows its reasoning, modifies files, generates diffs, and runs commands — all with granular control options (automated or step-by-step). The October 2025 real-time AWS Pricing API integration added FinOps intelligence: developers can ask natural language questions about EC2, Lambda, RDS, and S3 pricing, estimate workload costs, and compare architectural options without leaving the IDE or console. Cost optimization recommendations (June 2025) go further, offering personalized rightsizing and Savings Plan suggestions via chat.
⚠️ On April 29, 2026, AWS announced the end of Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins and paid subscriptions, effective April 30, 2027. New Q Developer account and subscription creation was blocked on May 15, 2026. Existing subscribers retain full access and can add seats until the April 2027 deadline. AWS Console and Slack/Teams integrations are not affected. The successor is Kiro (kiro.dev) — a spec-driven AI IDE that includes everything in Q Developer today (agentic coding, inline chat, terminal integration, MCP support) plus spec-driven development with Specs, Hooks, and Steering features. AWS recommends existing users download Kiro and review the migration guide.
Key Features
• ⚠️ No new signups from May 15, 2026 · IDE plugins EOS April 30, 2027 · Successor: Kiro (kiro.dev)
• Fully autonomous agent: plans and executes multi-file coding tasks without a human approval step (2025 upgrade)
• Agentic coding IDE: natural language task execution, transparent reasoning, multi-turn context, granular control
• CLI-first agentic workflows: same autonomous agent available in the terminal
• MCP support: extend agent with external tools and APIs
• Inline autocomplete: real-time code suggestions across 50+ languages and all major IDEs
• AWS Console integration: chat-driven resource analysis, troubleshooting, and cost optimization in the Console
• Real-time AWS Pricing API (Oct 2025): ask 'Which EC2 instance is cheapest in eu-west-1 for my workload?' — live data
• Personalized cost optimization (Jun 2025): rightsizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances via natural language
• Security scanning: detects hardcoded secrets, CVEs, IaC misconfigurations (CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Unit test generation: auto-generates test suites for existing code
• AWS resource introspection: query CloudWatch logs, Lambda configs, API Gateway, DynamoDB relationships via chat
• Slack & Microsoft Teams integration: Q Developer chat available outside the IDE
• Free tier: 50 agentic requests/month + unlimited inline suggestions
• Pro: $19/user/mo · 1,000 agentic requests + 4,000 lines code transformation/month
Version History
Miscellaneous non-user-facing changes — latest stable release for VS Code.
Kiro transition release: links users to new AWS Transform VS Code plugin and Kiro Power; adds UI surfacing Amazon Q Developer plugins end-of-support notice.
Major version bump. Miscellaneous non-user-facing changes.
Signature Snippet
A developer types in the Q Developer CLI: 'Add pagination to all list endpoints in this service and write the corresponding tests'. The autonomous agent reads the codebase, plans the changes without requiring approval, modifies files across the service, generates tests, and presents a summary diff for final review. Inline in VS Code it also surfaces: 'This Lambda function costs ~$0.84/mo at current invocation rates — consider provisioned concurrency at $0.61/mo for your usage pattern.'More in this Space
Sourcery
AI code review platform for the AI era. Automated code reviews, security scanning, and team analytics across GitHub, GitLab, VS Code, and JetBrains. Used by 300,000+ developers.
What The Diff
AI-powered PR description generator and code review assistant. Automatically writes pull request descriptions, sends stakeholder notifications, creates changelogs, and provides inline code refactoring.
Blackbox AI
Multi-agent AI coding platform with 12+ agents and 24+ models, featuring Chairman LLM for parallel multi-agent evaluation and end-to-end encrypted inference. Ships across six surfaces: CLI, IDE, Cloud, API, Mobile, and Builder.