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JetBrains/Intelij is increasing their prices

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20 pointsmonksy15 comments

Took me more time than it really should have to find out how much the price change is.

$89->101$ for renewals on intelij ultimate only.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/#personal

You can also wait until September and then renew for 3 years to keep the current pricing through 2025. By then, inflation will have caught up and it'll be just as cheap in 2022 Dollars.

I was more annoyed by the lack of clarity in the announcement about what the price change actually was, than the idea of the price increase itself.

JetBrains stuff gives me good value for money and after viewing the increased prices on your link, my view hasn’t really changed on this.

Their software is good, and reasonably priced IMHO.

As a side note: I also really appreciated the very clear stance they took on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (and had this not been forthcoming I was ready to move away).

The first year of the all product pack went from 249.00 to 289.00 Euro including VAT. That's an increase of 16%. I think it's been a few years since the have increased their prices. Given the high inflation in Europe and the US this year, the price hike is not unreasonable.

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31918433

First, they lied to us - I paid a high initial price, it was supposed to be followed by a decreasing in time 3 or 4 annual payments, but they completely changed their pricing, and now they charge every year and now - they are even increasing the price! Given that I don't use their IDEs but agreed to get the promised lifetime license just in case, it's time to stop paying for something that I'm not using!

The price still goes down every year, it's just at a higher price. (Not sure about your "high initial price" — was that a perpetual license?)

Note that you can renew for 3 years at a time at the current pricing. And if you've been paying for it for a while, you can always use the perpetual fall-back license: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/sections/201619995-Our-...

If you're not using it, why pay for it?

I explained - I wanted to get the promised lifetime license. I've been paying since 2015, which became the typical bait and switch.

You should still have a lifetime license for the version you most recently paid for. Is that not the case?

E.g. if you bought the 2019 version, then, if you never pay another cent, in 2031, you still have a license for the 2019 version.

That was not the original deal though. They changed their offering but did not grandfather us. No wonder - they are an Eastern European company, and such concepts don't exist there! Yeah, I can say that as I'm Eastern European myself.

I’ve had my Jetbrains account for about 8 years. It’s been that way as long as I’ve had it. When did you get yours?

Edit: grammar

There was a huge polemic here on HN when they announced the subscription model, so, they responded to it by offering something like an installment plan. But it was abandoned even if people like me bought into it.

Well, guess it’s time to put learning VS Code into higher gear.

If you're coding in Java, is it really not worth a few hundred dollars to be incredibly more productive in a tool design for Java instead of a fancy text editor? IntelliJ IDEA is incredibly powerful, and it's worth learning things like its more complex automated refactorings, postfix completion, live templates, etc.

Sure, but I’m not coding in Java any more. I’m coding in Python, Go and Rust which all have great VS Code support.

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