Amazon Q Developer vs Writer

There is a free tier with no cost, and a Pro tier priced at $19 per user per month that adds expanded agentic request limits, admin controls, and IP indemnity.

Writer does not publish prices. There are two tiers: Starter, for teams up to five users, with a 14-day free trial and no card required, and Enterprise, which is contact-sales and adds unlimited users and teams.

The free tier includes 50 agentic requests per month, access to the latest Claude models in IDE and CLI, and 1,000 lines of code per month for Java transformation.

Pro is the standard paid seat, with full access to create, customise and automate workflows. Lite seats exist only on Enterprise, letting invited users view and run existing playbooks with limited monthly Agent use before needing a Pro seat.

Java and .NET transformation usage beyond the plan's included lines of code is billed as overage at $0.003 per line of code submitted.

Writer states a zero data retention approach and says customers retain full ownership of their data. By default it does not train or improve its models on customer data, rather than requiring an opt-out.

Subscriptions are billed monthly per user and prorated in the first month, but canceling before the end of a billing month still incurs the full month's subscription fee.

Writer says it adheres to GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II and PCI. HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II certifications and reports are available on request, and only for Enterprise plans.

Agentic requests include both question-and-answer chat interactions and autonomous coding tasks performed by Q Developer's agents, all drawn from the same monthly quota.

Yes. Writer offers 20% off the Starter and Enterprise plans to nonprofits and educational institutions, claimed by emailing from a nonprofit or .edu address.