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JetBrains AI Assistant vs Bolt.new

JetBrains AI Assistant

JetBrains AI Assistant

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Bolt.new

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Pricing
FreemiumJetBrains AI offers four tiers. AI Free is $0/month with 3 AI credits every 30 days, unlimited code completion via JetBrains' Mellum model, and local model support via Ollama or LM Studio, but excludes frontier models and Junie for sustained agentic work. AI Pro is $10/month (Individual) or $20/month (Business), with 10 AI credits per month. AI Ultimate is $30/month (Individual) or $60/month (Business), with 35 AI credits per month, including a $5 bonus over the plan price. AI Enterprise is custom-priced at roughly $60/user/month billed annually, adding organization-wide credit pooling and enterprise controls. Each AI Credit equals $1 USD, and unused top-up credits (purchased separately at $1 each) remain valid for 12 months, while unused monthly plan credits do not roll over. A 30-day AI Pro trial is available for new users. AI Pro is also bundled into JetBrains' All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscriptions.
FreemiumBolt.new uses a token-based Freemium model. The Free tier provides 1 million tokens per month (with a 300,000 token daily cap), unlimited databases, website hosting with up to 333K web requests/month, and supports both public and private projects. Bolt branding appears on Free-tier websites. Pro costs $25/month (or less with annual billing) and includes no daily token limit, starting at 10M tokens/month, no Bolt branding, custom domain support, private site sharing, 100MB file uploads, up to 1M web requests, SEO boosting, expanded database capacity, choice of database provider, AI image editing, and unused token rollover for up to one additional month. The Teams plan is $30/user/month and adds centralized billing, team-level access management, granular admin controls, design system knowledge with per-package prompts, and private NPM registry support. Enterprise pricing is custom and includes everything in Pro plus SSO (Okta, Azure AD, SAML), SOC 2 Type II compliance, BYOK deployment on AWS or Azure, HIPAA/FedRAMP-ready infrastructure, a dedicated customer success manager, private Slack support channel, custom SLAs, hands-on onboarding, and unlimited token allocations without overage surprises.
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AI Coding Assistants
AI Coding AssistantsAI No-Code / Automation ToolsAI Design ToolsAI Developer APIs & Platforms
Summary
AI coding assistance built natively into every JetBrains IDE
Build and deploy full-stack apps by chatting with AI — in your browser
JetBrains AI Assistant

JetBrains AI Assistant Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Deep semantic project understanding via IntelliJ's existing static-analysis engine, not just open-file context
  • Junie autonomous agent handles multi-file planning, implementation, and self-correction, including a dedicated Debug mode
  • Works across a single subscription spanning 20+ JetBrains IDEs
  • Supports local models via Ollama and LM Studio at zero credit cost
  • Strong enterprise trust features including zero-data-retention policies and .aiignore support

Cons

  • Locked into the JetBrains IDE ecosystem, so it offers no value for developers using VS Code or other editors
  • Credit-based quota system can be confusing, and heavy Junie or Claude Agent use can exhaust monthly credits well before the billing period ends
  • AI Pro's 10 monthly credits are reportedly consumed within about a week under heavy agentic use, pushing users toward costly top-ups ($1 per credit)
  • Best suited to JVM languages (Java, Kotlin); completion quality is reportedly less consistent for other languages
  • AI Free tier excludes frontier models and the Junie agent, limiting it mostly to a demo of completion features
Bolt.new

Bolt.new Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Second-fastest-growing software product in history after ChatGPT — proven at massive scale
  • WebContainers moat: only tool to run a full Node.js stack natively in the browser with zero setup
  • Full-stack by default — databases, auth, APIs, and hosting all included without third-party accounts
  • Broadest enterprise trust: 75% Fortune 500 adoption, SOC 2 Type II, BYOK AWS/Azure deployment
  • Free tier is genuinely useful — 1M tokens/month with unlimited databases and live hosting
  • Figma import and design system support makes it ideal for agency and product team workflows

Cons

  • Token-based pricing can be unpredictable — large projects consume tokens rapidly, pushing users to Pro or Teams quickly
  • Token limits reset monthly; unused Pro tokens roll over only one month
  • Bolt branding appears on websites built on the Free plan (removed on paid plans)
  • Strongly web-focused — not suitable for native mobile apps, desktop software, or backend-only services
  • Complex apps with intricate business logic may still require manual code review and iteration
  • Dependent on AI model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI) — model access disruptions can affect availability