Amazon Q Developervs
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Generative AI assistant for coding, testing, and AWS development
Overview
Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant built by AWS to help developers write, test, debug, and maintain code. It offers inline code suggestions, autonomous agents for implementing features and refactoring, security vulnerability scanning, and application transformation tools for Java and .NET upgrades. It integrates with popular IDEs, the command line, GitHub, GitLab, and AWS services, and provides deep expertise on AWS architecture and best practices.
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Pricing
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Free
Free
Pro
$19 /mo
Capabilities
Code generation
Produces real-time code suggestions from snippets to full functions
Agentic task automation
Autonomously implements features, tests, documents, and refactors code
Security scanning
Identifies vulnerabilities in code and suggests fixes
Application transformation
Automates Java version upgrades and .NET porting
AWS expertise
Answers questions and guides on AWS services and architecture patterns
Private code customization
Connects to private repositories for contextualized recommendations
Admin governance dashboard
Lets administrators manage user access, policies and usage across an organization on paid plans.
IP indemnity protection
Provides intellectual property indemnity coverage for generated code on the Pro tier.
Answered, with sources
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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.
SourceThe 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.
SourceJava and .NET transformation usage beyond the plan's included lines of code is billed as overage at $0.003 per line of code submitted.
SourceSubscriptions 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.
SourceAgentic 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.
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