Yes, Amazon Q Developer has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes access to 50 agentic requests per month for Q&A chat and agentic coding in the IDE or CLI and 1,000 lines of code per month for Java upgrade transformations. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $6.00/mo.
About
Amazon Q Developer is an AI-powered assistant for software development that helps teams build, secure, manage, and optimize applications across the software development lifecycle. It provides code suggestions, chat-based assistance, and agentic capabilities that can help implement features, document code, test, review, refactor, and perform upgrades.
The product is available across popular development environments and workflows, including IDEs, the command line, the AWS Console, and collaboration tools. It is designed to support developers working on AWS and beyond, with capabilities for code transformation, security scanning, operational guidance, and data and AI development support.
- Real-time code suggestions and inline chat in supported IDEs
- Command line completions and natural language to bash translation
- Agentic coding for tasks such as testing, documentation, reviews, and refactoring
- Security scanning and remediation suggestions
- AWS console assistance for architecture, cost, and operational guidance
- Transformation support for Java upgrades and .NET porting
- Support for data, analytics, AI/ML, and generative AI workflows
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a capped monthly offering, not an unlimited one, and it does not appear to avoid sign-up friction. At the paid Pro rate of $19 per user/month, the included 50 agentic requests plus 1,000 Java upgrade lines and console features are worth roughly $6/month in practical value, or about 32% of Pro's price. The cap keeps it well below the paid tier, but it still provides a usable monthly allowance for small-scale development work.
What's included in the free tier
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- Access to 50 agentic requests per month for Q&A chat and agentic coding in the IDE or CLI.
- 1,000 lines of code per month for Java upgrade transformations.
- Reference tracking for code suggestions and responses.
- Ability to suppress public code suggestions.
- Opt-out data collection controls.
- General Q&A in the AWS Console.
- Diagnosis of common errors in the AWS Console.
- Free tier limits in the IDE for Builder ID users only.
- Free tier limits in the AWS Console for users with console access only.
- Free tier limits for AWS Console Mobile App, AWS Chatbot, and AWS marketing/documentation pages.
See Amazon Q Developer pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro Tier
- agentic requests
- included (with limits)
- Java upgrade transformation lines
- 4,000 LOC per month per user pooled at account level
- overage rate
- $0.003 per LOC submitted
- Expanded limits for agentic requests
- Increased limits for Java and .NET app transformation
- Identity Center support with admin dashboards and controls
- IP indemnity
- Everything included in Free tier
Pricing extracted from Amazon Q Developer's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Amazon Q Developer free forever?
Yes. Amazon Q Developer has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Amazon Q Developer's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Amazon Q Developer's cheapest paid plan is Pro Tier at $19 / seat / month.
What is Amazon Q Developer's free tier worth?
Amazon Q Developer's free tier is worth about $6.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 47/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
