JetBrains: Added multi-year billing with 2–3 year price-freeze guarantee
What happened
Between the Aug 24, 2026 and Aug 31, 2026 captures of JetBrains' pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: New 'Multi-year available' billing option added alongside Yearly/Monthly, with a 'Freeze your price for 2–3 years' price-lock guarantee shown on All Products Pack ($979/yr), IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate ($719/yr), and dotUltimate ($609/yr). No price changes. In detail: Added 'Multi-year available' billing option (previously Yearly/Monthly only) with a 'Freeze your price for 2–3 years' price-lock guarantee on All Products Pack, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, and dotUltimate. Pulse files it as a packaging change (packaging change). Pulse's latest capture (Nov 9, 2026) lists RustRover (Personal) at $69, WebStorm (Personal) at $79, AI Pro (Personal) at $100, CLion (Personal) at $109 and RubyMine (Personal) at $109.
It lands 90 days after JetBrains' previous change, "JetBrains trims All Products Pack by one IDE in bundle shakeup" (Jun 1, 2026). JetBrains has been tracked since 2026-05-12.
In the same window Microsoft, X, Clio and GitHub also changed their Software Development & Testing pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- AddedAll Products Pack, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, dotUltimatePackaging
BeforeNot listed
AfterMulti-year available billing option
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Products Pack, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, dotUltimate | Packaging | Not listed | Multi-year available billing option | Added |
Values as written on JetBrains' public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of JetBrains' pricing page (www.jetbrains.com) from Aug 24, 2026 and Aug 31, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where Multi-year available billing option now appears.
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JetBrains, pricing history
Full historyDates are the day each change was detected, Eastern time.
- Aug 30, 2026PackagingJetBrains: Added multi-year billing with 2–3 year price-freeze guarantee This change
- Jun 1, 2026PackagingJetBrains trims All Products Pack by one IDE in bundle shakeup
Across Software Development & Testing in the same window
All Software Development & Testing changes- MicrosoftAug 31Microsoft Speech: Voice Live Pro Cached Input $40→$0.40; GPT Realtime 2 added
- XAug 24X drops grok-4.5, adds Imagine image/video models and free Playground perk
- ClioAug 5Clio: All 4 plan tiers renamed + new Platform bundle option added
- GitHubJun 8GitHub adds cloud sandbox for Copilot agent workflows
Questions about this change
Did JetBrains raise prices in August 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Aug 24, 2026 and Aug 31, 2026 UTC. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: packaging change.
What changed on JetBrains' pricing page between Aug 24, 2026 and Aug 31, 2026 UTC?
All Products Pack, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, dotUltimate packaging added: Multi-year available billing option. Pulse compared the captures it took on Aug 24, 2026 and Aug 31, 2026 UTC; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does JetBrains change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for JetBrains in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "JetBrains trims All Products Pack by one IDE in bundle shakeup" on Jun 1, 2026; JetBrains has been tracked since 2026-05-12.