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| Tool |  Amazon Q Developer | |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
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| Category | — | AI Coding |
| Description | Amazon Q Developer is AWS AI coding assistant for building, deploying, and optimizing applications on AWS. Features code generation, debugging, optimization suggestions, and deep AWS service integration to help developers work faster in the AWS ecosystem. | AI-native code editor built on VS Code with deep codebase indexing and a credit-based pricing model. Reached 1M+ monthly active users in 2025 and added a Marketplace for extensions and JetBrains plugin support. The Composer agent can apply multi-file edits with a single instruction, making it the most popular dedicated AI IDE among developers surveyed in Stack Overflow 2025. |
| Code generation | Supported | Not supported |
| AWS integration | Supported | Not supported |
| Security scanning | Supported | Not supported |
| Code transformation | Supported | Not supported |
| CLI assistance | Supported | Not supported |
| Debugging help | Supported | Not supported |
| IDE plugins | Supported | Not supported |
| Console integration | Supported | Not supported |
| Codebase indexing for whole-repository context in completions | Not supported | Supported |
| Composer: multi-file AI edit agent with diff review before applying | Not supported | Supported |
| Chat mode with @ references for files, docs, symbols, and web | Not supported | Supported |
| Credit-based pricing with premium models (Claude 4.6, GPT-4o, o3) | Not supported | Supported |
| Cursor Marketplace for extensions and community tools | Not supported | Supported |
| JetBrains plugin (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm) as of 2025 | Not supported | Supported |
| Shadow workspace: preview AI changes before applying to active files | Not supported | Supported |
| Notepads for reusable context templates across sessions | Not supported | Supported |
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