Settle where Junie's licenses and credits live, give a bounded pilot group access and a credit limit, and compare accepted changes with credits used before access widens. Every control named here is in JetBrains' licensing and JetBrains Central documentation as of October 12, 2026.
When you need this
- Engineers already try Junie on personal licenses, and nobody knows what the team spends.
- Some engineers run out of credits in the first week of the month while others use none.
- You need to decide between AI Pro and AI Ultimate seats without usage data.
- Security and finance ask who can use which agents and models before a wider rollout.
Evaluation criteria
Settle where credits live
Are credits personal, or pooled for the organization?
Look forCheck whether your organization has moved to JetBrains Central. Central pools 70 credits a month per AI Ultimate license and 20 per AI Pro, All Products Pack, or dotUltimate license. Purchased credits last 12 months. Converted license credits expire at the end of the month the license ends. Outside Central, each license has its own 30-day quota.
Choose the pilot tier
Which tier matches daily agent use?
Look forUse AI Ultimate as the starting tier for regular Junie use, as JetBrains recommends. Organization AI Ultimate costs US$60 per user per month, and AI Pro costs US$20. Top up the pool, or set an auto-purchase with a minimum of 5 credits, before upgrading every seat. Users report how fast credits go. In 2025 one developer measured about US$5 per workday once their AI Ultimate allocation ran out. AI Ultimate costs US$30 a month with 35 AI credits, and extra credits can be bought at any time at US$1 each, so a daily user should budget for top-ups.
Grant access by group
Who can use Junie, and does access follow team membership?
Look forGrant the pilot group access on Central's AI access page. Group access follows joiners and leavers. Grant CI service accounts access separately because they never receive it automatically. Central Business and Enterprise also require an AI seat for each user.
Set credit limits before access
What stops one engineer from draining the pool?
Look forSet a default monthly limit before granting access. Override it for heavy users. Limits reset on the first of each month, and 0 stops spending without revoking access. Monitor the shared pool too. An empty pool stops Junie for everyone.
Measure before widening
Will you know whether the pilot paid off?
Look forTrack adoption and credits per user and tool in Central AI analytics. Use the session explorer to inspect the model, duration, and consumption of each session. Activity data requires IDE 2025.3 or later and Junie 253.487.77 or later. Compare it with accepted pull requests and review time.
Questions to ask vendors
- Has our organization been moved to JetBrains Central, and who holds the Manage AI access permission?
- What monthly credit limit fits a pilot engineer, and who approves a higher one?
- Which CI pipelines will run Junie, under which service account and key?
- What accepted-change rate and credit spend would justify widening access?
Red flags
- Access granted to everyone before any limit is set.
- Pilot results judged on credits used alone, with no record of accepted changes.
- CI runs billed to a person's key when they belong on a service account.
- Seats upgraded to AI Ultimate across the board before the pilot shows who needs them.
Products in this piece
Sources
- Official documentation
- 10
- Public source
- 5
- JetBrains AI docs: Plans and usage
- Junie home page and pricing
- JetBrains AI FAQ
- JetBrains Central Console docs: Plans and pricing
- JetBrains Central Console docs: AI access
- JetBrains Central Console docs: AI settings
- JetBrains Central Console docs: AI credit limits
- JetBrains Central Console docs: AI analytics
- JetBrains Central Console docs: AI credit consumption
- Junie docs: Junie GitHub Action
- cmpalmer52 on Hacker News: a pull-request dashboard for their team, built with Junie step by step (Nov 10, 2025)
- AdComplex1867 on Reddit r/Jetbrains: Junie is now costing me about US$5 a day (Sep 30, 2025)
- Amazing_Hospital_515 on Reddit r/Jetbrains: Junie Ultimate 61 days in (Jun 29, 2025)
- Lou Sacco, DaisyHealth's CTO Substack: Junie in WebStorm, the good, the bad, and the ugly (Jul 1, 2025)
- VRT303 on Reddit r/Jetbrains: Junie and Cursor on the same model across a team (Nov 8, 2025)