Amazon Q Developer+10 Mixed

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Should we adopt Amazon Q Developer?

Where should Amazon Q Developer teams move before support ends in April 2027?

30-Second TakeKeep Amazon Q Developer only for the Pro seats you hold today, since AWS ends its IDE plugins on April 30, 2027.
Best fitTeams already on Q Developer Pro through IAM Identity Center that build on AWS and need a stable assistant while they plan the move.GILD Review
Consider another workflowNew buyers cannot subscribe. AWS points them to Kiro, and teams not tied to AWS billing can start on GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.GILD Review

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GILD analysis

Amazon Q Developer Review

Keep Amazon Q Developer for the Pro seats you hold, keep Q in the console, and move coding work to Kiro or another assistant on a dated plan. AWS ends the IDE plugins, Pro, and code transformation on April 30, 2027, and already keeps its newer models for Kiro. Until then, Pro still gives agentic chat in four IDEs, AWS-aware answers in the console, no training on your content, and IP indemnity.

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The decision

Best fit: Teams already on Q Developer Pro through IAM Identity Center that build on AWS and need a stable assistant while they plan the move.
Consider another workflow: New buyers cannot subscribe. AWS points them to Kiro, and teams not tied to AWS billing can start on GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
Adoption condition: Date the exit for the IDE plugins and any transformation jobs before support ends. Turn on the AI services opt-out for Free tier users. Review every change before merge.

Basis: AWS documentation, pricing, Service Terms, the end-of-support notice, and AWS's FAQ, plus public accounts from engineers who used it. On the public SWE-bench Verified leaderboard, AWS's own April 2025 run of the Q Developer agent resolved 65.4% of tasks; SWE-bench has not checked that run.

Buying & deployment factsWhat engineering leaders should verify before a broader rollout.

How you buy it

US$19

Existing Pro only. AWS closed sign-ups May 15, 2026, while its pricing page still offers them.

Source 1, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement: Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement Source 2, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Q Developer pricing: Amazon Q Developer pricing

Details

AWS's end-of-support notice blocks new Free tier accounts through Builder ID and new Pro subscriptions in the console from May 15, 2026. AWS's pricing page, read on October 28, 2026, still offers a perpetual Free Tier and a Builder ID upgrade to Pro. Existing Pro subscriptions, US$19 per user per month billed to the AWS account and prorated in the first month, can still add users until end of support.

Cost drivers

1,000 user requests

A month on Pro, or 10,000 inference calls, with no overage. Free gets 50 agentic requests.

Source 2, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Q Developer pricing: Amazon Q Developer pricing Source 3, aws.amazon.com, Amazon Q Developer FAQs: Amazon Q Developer FAQs

Details

Each month, Free gets 50 agentic requests and 1,000 transformation lines; Pro gets about 1,000 user requests (10,000 inference calls) and 4,000 lines per user, pooled at the payer account. Free requests cover the IDE plugins and CLI. Pro requests have no overage, so a user who reaches the cap waits for the next month. Java upgrade transformation past the pool costs US$0.003 per line submitted, and canceling mid-month bills the full month.

Where it runs

IDEs and AWS apps

IDE plugins end April 30, 2027. The console, Slack, and Teams versions continue.

Source 1, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement: Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement Source 3, aws.amazon.com, Amazon Q Developer FAQs: Amazon Q Developer FAQs

Details

Plugins for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, and Eclipse until April 30, 2027; Amazon Q in the AWS console, the Console Mobile Application, AWS websites, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, which continue. The Q CLI moves to Kiro CLI with q update, and the GitHub integration has not reached general availability.

What to verify

Training opt-out

Free tier content can train models, so opt every Free user out.

Source 3, aws.amazon.com, Amazon Q Developer FAQs: Amazon Q Developer FAQs Source 4, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Q Developer service improvement: Amazon Q Developer service improvement Source 1, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement: Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement

Details

That every Free tier user is opted out, through an AWS Organizations AI opt-out policy for the console and per IDE for plugins, since Free content can train models. Confirm where content is stored: Pro data stays in the Region where the Q Developer profile was created, and Free tier data in US Regions. Finish Java and .NET transformations before support ends.