JetBrains IDEs Are Free for Students for a Year

Learning to code while you're in school usually means making do with whatever a free tier allows. JetBrains is going the other way and handing students its whole IDE lineup for a full year, at no cost.

That covers every IDE the company makes, plus the database tool and the AI Assistant with its full feature set, not a stripped-down student edition.

What Happened

JetBrains is giving students one year of access to all of its IDEs. The offer the post lays out includes:

• IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm and CLion, the full lineup rather than a single editor.
• DataGrip, the JetBrains tool for working in databases.
• The AI Assistant with its full features.
• The Toolbox app, which handles installing and updating the JetBrains tools on your machine.

The post gives no price, no deadline and no signup steps, so treat this as what the offer covers rather than a walkthrough.

Why It Matters

If you are enrolled as a student, this is one year with a professional toolchain instead of a patchwork of trials. You are not picking between IntelliJ and PyCharm here, and the database and AI pieces come with it.

Because the offer is aimed at students, expect it to be tied to being in school when it is claimed. Worth checking whether the year runs from when you claim it.