JetBrains
JetBrains creates intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for software developers and teams. By automating routine checks and corrections, their tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover, and create.
Founding Story
JetBrains was founded in Prague, Czech Republic in February 2000 by three Russian software developers: Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipiatkov, and Eugene Belyaev. Originally called IntelliJ Software, the company started with the goal of creating tools that would automate mundane tasks and make their own development work easier. Their first product was IntelliJ Renamer, a code refactoring tool for Java. The founders bootstrapped the company and it has grown organically without any external funding, remaining true to a developer-first philosophy focused on product quality over aggressive sales and marketing.
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Leadership
Founders
Sergey Dmitriev
Russian software engineer and co-founder. Served as CEO until 2012, currently President and co-owner of JetBrains. Also an angel investor.
Valentin Kipiatkov
Russian software engineer and co-founder. Currently JetBrains Fellow and maintains control as co-owner.
Eugene Belyaev
Russian software engineer and co-founder. Currently serves as Director of Innovations, Emerging Technologies and AI at JetBrains.
Executive Team
Kirill Skrygan
Chief Executive Officer
Appointed CEO on February 1, 2024, succeeding Maxim Shafirov. Started as a developer at JetBrains and worked his way up to leadership.
Yury Belyaev
Chief Administrative Officer
Business Model
Revenue Model
Primarily subscription-based licensing with monthly and yearly plans for IDEs, developer tools, and team collaboration software. Also offers free non-commercial licenses for many products, free educational licenses, and open-source project licenses. Revenue from JetBrains Marketplace for third-party plugins. Special pricing for startups, students, and non-profits.
Pricing Tiers
Includes 11 IDEs, 3 extensions, 2 profilers, JetBrains AI Pro. Individual use with continuity discount.
Annual billing for organizations. Includes all tools and JetBrains AI Pro.
With continuity discount for individuals
Annual billing for organizations
Flat annual rate for AI Assistant and coding agents
Varies by product. Many now free for non-commercial use (CLion, DataGrip, Rider, RubyMine, RustRover, WebStorm)
Free licenses for educational use
Up to 10 licenses for companies less than 5 years old
Free licenses for core maintainers of qualified open-source projects
For former student license holders, valid for 2 years
Target Markets
- Individual software developers
- Development teams and enterprises
- Startups and scale-ups
- Fortune 100 companies
- Educational institutions
- Open-source project contributors
- Java and JVM development
- Python development and data science
- JavaScript and TypeScript web development
- PHP and Laravel development
- .NET and C# development
- Game development with Unity
- 88 out of Fortune Global Top 100 companies
- Citibank
- ByteDance
History & Milestones
Released Mellum, an open-source coding model
Unified IntelliJ IDEA distribution, merging Community and Ultimate editions into single product
Discontinued Aqua, Fleet, and Writerside IDEs
Kirill Skrygan replaced Maxim Shafirov as CEO
Launched JetBrains AI Assistant and RustRover; integrated Google Gemini models; won 115+ international industry awards since founding
3 AI Tools by JetBrains
Junie CLI
21dLLM-agnostic coding agent by JetBrains that runs from the terminal, automates development workflows, and integrates with any IDE or CI/CD environment.
Air.dev
3moAgentic development environment for delegating coding tasks to AI agents that work in parallel under developer oversight.
AI-driven features integrated into JetBrains IDEs that accelerate the entire development cycle through precise and context-aware assistance.