What Amazon Q Dev Pro does
Amazon Q Developer is an AWS generative AI assistant for software developers and AWS customers. Named features include agentic help for implementing features, refactoring code, and performing upgrades; real-time code suggestions; vulnerability scanning with suggested remediations; AWS architecture, cost, and incident help; and code transformation for .NET porting and Java 8 to 17 upgrades. Integrations listed are JetBrains, VS Code, Visual Studio, the command line, the AWS Console, GitLab, Slack, and GitHub. The page says the free tier includes 50 agentic chat interactions and 1,000 lines of code transformed per month. It notes that AWS will discontinue Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30, 2027, and suggests Kiro as a replacement. The page does not state paid Pro prices.
How Amazon Q Dev Pro compares with its closest alternatives
4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan; Amazon Q Dev Pro does not. Only Hoplite lists a starting price, $99 a month. 3 of the 5 offer an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Amazon Q Dev Pro. Amazon Q Dev Pro offers a web app and a VS Code extension. Of the alternatives, 4 offer a web app and 1 offers a VS Code extension. Amazon Q Dev Pro was founded in 2023; the alternatives were founded between 2022 and 2023, 1 of them earlier. Amazon Q Dev Pro is based in Seattle, United States; 3 of the 4 alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United States too, and the others in the United Kingdom.