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Amazon Q Developer Pricing (2026): Amazon Q Developer Cost, Free Tier, Pro Plan and End of Support
Every Amazon Q Developer tier and what it costs, the limits that decide your real bill, and the part most pricing articles still miss: new signups closed on May 15, 2026 and support ends April 30, 2027. Figures and dates read from Amazon's own pricing page and end-of-support announcement in July 2026, with what to migrate to alongside.
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The short answer
Amazon Q Developer costs $0 on the Free Tier or $19 per user per month on Pro, with code transformations metered at $0.003 per line of code above a 4,000-line monthly pool. The critical caveat in July 2026: you can no longer buy it. AWS blocked new Free Tier signups and new subscriptions on May 15, 2026, and the IDE plugins plus paid Pro subscriptions reach end of support on April 30, 2027. Existing subscribers keep plugin access until then. AWS points developers to Kiro instead, which is credit-metered from $20 a month for 1,000 credits with overage at $0.04 per credit. If you want a flat bill and an agent that opens a reviewable pull request on GitHub or GitLab with no meter, Agentcode is $29 a month.
Is Amazon Q Developer being discontinued?
Yes, in part, and it changes what the price means. AWS has published an end-of-support timeline for the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins and paid Pro subscriptions. Two of the three milestones have already passed, so before you compare tiers it is worth knowing whether you can even subscribe. For most teams reading this, the answer is no.
New signups blocked
AWS stopped new Amazon Q Developer Free Tier signups and blocked creation of new subscriptions. If you did not already have Q Developer on this date, you cannot buy it: the $19 Pro price is now only relevant to teams that were already subscribed.
Opus 4.6 model access ended
Access to the Opus 4.6 model through Q Developer ended, the first capability reduction of the wind-down. Existing subscribers kept the plugins but lost that model option.
End of support
The Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins (VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, Visual Studio) and paid Q Developer Pro subscriptions reach end of support. Code transformation features, the Java language upgrades and .NET porting, are retired with them.
What is not affected
The announcement gets read as "Amazon Q is dead", which overstates it. These keep working:
- Amazon Q Developer inside the AWS Management Console and other first-party AWS experiences, including the AWS documentation site and the Console Mobile App.
- The Slack and Microsoft Teams chat integrations.
- Amazon Q Business, which is a separate enterprise-search product with its own pricing.
- Existing Pro subscriptions until end of support: current subscribers keep IDE plugin access through April 30, 2027 and can still add new users to a subscription they already have.
So the coding assistant you install in your IDE is the piece being retired. If you already run it, you have until April 30, 2027 to plan a move, and the honest reason to plan early is that the transformation features disappear with the plugins.
Amazon Q Developer plans and prices
Q Developer published two tiers: a Free Tier and a $19-per-user Pro tier. Both are now closed to new customers, so treat these as the numbers that apply to an existing subscription. What decides the real cost on Pro is the agentic request limit and, if you modernize legacy code, the per-line transformation meter above the pooled allowance.
| Plan | Price | Key limits | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Tier | $0 per month | Unlimited inline completions · 50 agentic requests/mo · 1,000 lines of code of Java transformations/mo | An individual who signed up before the cutoff. Closed to new users. |
| Pro | $19 per user / month | Higher agentic limits · 4,000 lines of code of transformations/mo per user, pooled at the AWS payer-account level · $0.003 per line over | A team that was already subscribed before the cutoff. No new subscriptions. |
Prices and limits as published by Amazon and checked in July 2026. AWS revises these regularly, so confirm on aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing before you buy.
What each Amazon Q Developer plan gets you
Free Tier
$0 · per monthThe Free Tier costs nothing and includes unlimited inline code completions, 50 agentic requests a month (chat and agent tasks in your IDE or the CLI), and 1,000 lines of code of Java transformations a month. It signed in with an AWS Builder ID, so you did not need an AWS account. The catch was always the 50-request agentic cap, which heavy agent use burns through in days. The bigger catch now: new Free Tier signups were blocked on May 15, 2026, so this tier is only available if you already had it.
Pro
$19 · per user / monthPro is $19 per user per month. It raises the agentic request limits above the Free cap and includes 4,000 lines of code of transformations a month per user, pooled at the AWS payer-account level, so subscriptions aggregate their allowance before overage applies. Past the pool, transformations meter at $0.003 per line of code submitted. Pro adds an admin dashboard for user and policy management, IP indemnity, SSO through IAM Identity Center, and it opts your prompts out of data collection for model training. New Pro subscriptions stopped on May 15, 2026. Existing subscribers keep plugin access through April 30, 2027 and can still add users to the subscription they have.
How the transformation meter changes your bill
The $19 Pro price covers chat and agentic coding, but code transformations are the line item that can move your total. If you are only writing new code and chatting, the subscription is the whole cost. If you are modernizing legacy Java or .NET at scale, do the math first.
Chat and agentic work sit inside your tier
Inline completions, chat and agentic requests are governed by request limits, not a dollar meter. Free gives 50 agentic requests a month; Pro raises that ceiling well above daily-use needs. For most teams writing and reviewing code, the $19 per user is a flat, predictable number, which is the part of Q Developer that behaves like a normal subscription.
Transformations are metered per line above 4,000
Pro includes 4,000 lines of code of transformations a month, pooled across everyone on your AWS account. Past that pool, each line of code you submit for transformation costs $0.003. On a small upgrade that is nothing; on a legacy modernization touching hundreds of thousands of lines it becomes a real, variable charge on your AWS invoice that the $19 sticker never hinted at.
Budget the busy migration month, not the average
The honest way to forecast Q Developer is to separate the two: the flat per-seat cost for everyday coding, plus the one-off transformation spend for any big migration. A 250,000-line Java upgrade that exceeds the pool would add roughly $750 in transformation charges beyond your seats. That is not a reason to avoid it, but it belongs in the plan before you start, not as a surprise on the bill.
What is replacing Amazon Q Developer, and what does Kiro cost?
AWS points Q Developer users at Kiro, an agentic development environment built around spec-driven development: the agent works from a structured specification you approve rather than one-off prompts, with automated hooks, steering files and custom subagents. For the retired code-transformation features, AWS points to AWS Transform custom and AWS Transform full-stack Windows modernization instead.
The budgeting surprise is the billing shape. Q Developer Pro was a mostly-flat $19 seat. Kiro is credit-metered, so what you pay depends on how hard the agent works:
| Kiro plan | Price | Included credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 per month | 50 credits/mo | Open-weight models plus Claude Sonnet 4.5. |
| Pro | $20 per month | 1,000 credits/mo | Premium model access. Add-on credits $0.04 each. |
| Pro+ | $40 per month | 2,000 credits/mo | Premium model access. Add-on credits $0.04 each. |
| Pro Max | $100 per month | 5,000 credits/mo | Premium model access. Add-on credits $0.04 each. |
| Power | $200 per month | 10,000 credits/mo | Premium model access. Add-on credits $0.04 each. |
Team tiers match those per-user prices and bill overage as pay-per-use at $0.04 per credit, with consolidated billing, usage analytics and SSO. Kiro pricing read from kiro.dev in July 2026. The practical point for anyone planning a migration: you are moving from a predictable seat onto a meter, so model a busy month rather than an average one. That pattern is now the norm across the category, which is why we keep a running flat vs credit-metered pricing comparison of every major tool.
Amazon Q Developer vs a flat-priced PR agent
Amazon Q Developer is an AWS-native, in-editor assistant that is strong on Java and .NET modernization and priced with a per-line transformation meter; Agentcode ships reviewable changes into a repo you already have and bills flat. They fit different jobs, so here is where each one is genuinely ahead.
| Amazon Q Developer | Agentcode | |
|---|---|---|
| Can you still buy it? | No. New Free Tier signups and new subscriptions were blocked on May 15, 2026 | Yes, available now, free to start |
| Supported until | April 30, 2027 for the IDE plugins and paid Pro subscriptions | Actively developed, no announced end date |
| Billing model | $19/user Pro seat, plus transformations metered at $0.003 per line above the pooled allowance | Flat subscription, no per-line meter and no usage pool |
| Entry price | $0 Free Tier (50 agentic requests/mo) then $19/user/mo, if you were already subscribed | From $29/mo flat, free to start |
| Where AWS points you next | Kiro, which is credit-metered from $20/mo for 1,000 credits with overage at $0.04 per credit | Nowhere to migrate: the flat plan is the product |
| How you work with it | In-editor and CLI: you drive it in your IDE or the command line | Asynchronous: hand off the task, review the pull request it opens |
| Who opens the PR | Its agent can turn a GitHub issue into a PR; day to day you commit the changes it drafts | The agent writes the change, runs your tests, and opens the pull request itself |
| Repo and host support | GitHub-centric; GitLab runs through GitLab Duo with Amazon Q on self-managed Ultimate | Native GitHub and GitLab, on any hosting |
| Best at | AWS-native development and large-scale Java and .NET modernization inside your AWS account | Delegating a bounded task and getting a tested, reviewable PR back |
| Trains on your code | Pro opts out of data collection automatically; the Free Tier does not by default | Never, on any plan |
On the merits, Q Developer wins when your stack is on AWS or you have large Java and .NET codebases to modernize, where its transformation tooling and deep AWS integration genuinely pull ahead. It was also one of the cheapest capable seats in the category at $19. The reason it is hard to recommend in July 2026 has nothing to do with quality: you cannot subscribe, the plugins lose support on April 30, 2027, and the transformation features that were its strongest differentiator retire with them. Where a flat plan wins is an existing repo and a predictable bill on either host: Agentcode runs an async PR workflow on the GitHub or GitLab repo you already have for one monthly price, so a busy month and a quiet one cost the same. For the full feature-by-feature breakdown see the Amazon Q Developer alternative page and the flat vs metered pricing comparison across every tool.
Amazon Q Developer pricing: your questions answered
How much does Amazon Q Developer cost?
Amazon Q Developer has two published tiers: a Free Tier at $0 a month and Pro at $19 per user per month. Free includes unlimited inline completions, 50 agentic requests and 1,000 lines of code of Java transformations a month. Pro raises the agentic limits and adds 4,000 lines of transformations a month per user, pooled at the AWS payer-account level, with overage at $0.003 per line. Note that new subscriptions closed on May 15, 2026.
Is Amazon Q Developer being discontinued?
Yes. AWS announced that the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins and paid Pro subscriptions reach end of support on April 30, 2027, and new Free Tier signups and new subscriptions were blocked on May 15, 2026. Code transformation features are retired alongside them. Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console, the Slack and Teams integrations, and the separate Amazon Q Business product are not affected.
When is Amazon Q Developer end of support?
April 30, 2027 is the end-of-support date for the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins (VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, Visual Studio) and for paid Q Developer Pro subscriptions. Two earlier milestones already passed: new signups and subscription creation were blocked on May 15, 2026, and Opus 4.6 model access ended on May 29, 2026. Existing Pro subscribers keep IDE plugin access until the end-of-support date.
Can I still sign up for Amazon Q Developer?
No. AWS blocked new Amazon Q Developer Free Tier signups and the creation of new subscriptions on May 15, 2026. If your organization already had a Pro subscription before that date you can keep using it and even add new users to it, but a team starting fresh cannot buy Q Developer at any price. That is why the $19 figure you still see quoted across comparison articles is misleading for new buyers.
What is replacing Amazon Q Developer?
Kiro, an agentic development environment AWS built around spec-driven development, where the agent works from a structured specification rather than one-off prompts. It adds automated hooks, steering files and custom subagents. For code transformation work specifically, AWS points you to AWS Transform custom and AWS Transform full-stack Windows modernization instead of the retired Q Developer transformation features.
How much does Kiro cost compared to Amazon Q Developer?
Kiro is credit-metered rather than a flat seat. Free gives 50 credits a month, Pro is $20 for 1,000 credits, Pro+ $40 for 2,000, Pro Max $100 for 5,000 and Power $200 for 10,000, with extra credits at $0.04 each. Team tiers match those prices per user and bill overage at $0.04 per credit. So moving from a $19 Pro seat to Kiro means moving onto a usage meter, and your bill now depends on how hard the agent works.
Does Amazon Q Developer charge per line of code?
Only for code transformations. Chat and agentic requests are governed by tier request limits, not a dollar meter. Pro includes 4,000 lines of code of transformations a month per user, pooled at the AWS payer-account level, and beyond that pool you pay $0.003 per line of code submitted. A large legacy modernization job can therefore add a real variable charge on top of the $19 per-user seat, which is worth modeling before a migration.
What is the difference between Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business?
Amazon Q Developer is the coding assistant: completions, chat, agentic coding tasks and code transformations in your IDE and CLI. Amazon Q Business is a separate enterprise assistant that answers questions over your company data and documents, priced and purchased separately. The end-of-support announcement covers the Q Developer IDE plugins and paid subscriptions, not Q Business.
What should I migrate to from Amazon Q Developer?
It depends on what you used it for. For AWS-native, spec-driven development, Kiro is the AWS-sanctioned path, though it is credit-metered. For Java upgrades and .NET porting, AWS Transform replaces the retired transformation features. If what you actually want is a predictable bill and an agent that opens a reviewable pull request on GitHub or GitLab, Agentcode is flat from $29 a month with no per-line meter and no credit pool, and it never merges on its own.
Last updated: July 2026
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