JetBrains s.r.o. (formerly IntelliJ Software s.r.o.) is a global software development private limited company which makes tools for programmers (software developers) and project managers. The company has its headquarters in Amsterdam, and has offices in China, Europe, and the United States.
JetBrains offers a variety of integrated development environments (IDEs), such as IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Rider, WebStorm and CLion. It also created the Kotlin programming language in 2011, which can run on a Java virtual machine (JVM).
InfoWorld magazine awarded the firm "Technology of the Year Award" in 2011 and 2015.
History
JetBrains, initially named IntelliJ Software, was founded in 2000 in Prague by three Russian software developers: Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipyatkov and Eugene Belyaev. The company's first product was IntelliJ Renamer, a tool for code refactoring in Java.
In 2012 CEO Sergey Dmitriev was replaced by Oleg Stepanov and Maxim Shafirov.
In 2021 The New York Times stated that unknown parties might have embedded malware in JetBrains' TeamCity CI/CD software that led to the SolarWinds hack and other widespread security compromises. In a press release, JetBrains said they had not been contacted by any government or security agency and had not "taken part or been involved in this attack in any way". The CEO of one of the affected companies, SolarWinds, "asked about the possibility that software tools made by JetBrains, which speeds the development and testing of code, was the pathway".
In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the company suspended sales and R&D activities in Russia indefinitely, and sales in Belarus. JetBrains' Russian legal entity was liquidated on 21 February 2023.
In September 2023, JetBrains acquired the company Code Buddy and its two main products, JPA Buddy and React Buddy. The tools were integrated into IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and the team joined JetBrains to continue their development.
Effective 1 February 2024, Kirill Skrygan replaced Maxim Shafirov as CEO.
In December 2025, JetBrains unified IntelliJ IDEA into a single distribution, merging the previously separate Community Edition and Ultimate Edition. Under the new model, all Ultimate features require a subscription to unlock, while the IDE remains fully functional and free for both commercial and non-commercial projects without a subscription, including more features than the Community Edition previously offered.
Financial performance JetBrains has achieved significant financial growth without external funding. The company reported 5.6% revenue growth in 2023, following 11% growth in 2022. JetBrains is profitable with $200 million in EBITDA generated in 2020. The company has never raised external capital.
Products IDEs
Current The following is a non-exhaustive list of integrated development environments (IDEs) distributed by JetBrains. NameDescriptionAndroid StudioMade in cooperation with Google for the Android programming tools.CLionCLion (pronounced "sea lion") is a C and C++ IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows integrated with the CMake build system. The initial version supports GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and Clang compilers and GDB debugger, LLDB and Google Test.DataGripA database administration tool for SQL databases. Other data stores are also accessible via plugin functionality.DataSpell Deprecated (May 2026)A data science tool for Jupyter Notebooks and Python.GoLandFor Go development. It features tooling for SQL and DevOps-oriented tasks, and basic web toolchain support (TS/JS).IntelliJ IDEAFor Java virtual machine–based languages such as Java, Groovy, Kotlin, and Scala. An open-source version is available under the name IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, and a proprietary version as IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition.PhpStormFor PHP.PyCharmFor Python. An open-source version is available as PyCharm Community Edition, and a proprietary version as PyCharm Professional Edition. For students, JetBrains has also developed PyCharm Education.RiderFor .NET (primarily C# and F#) development and game development with Unity (C#) and Unreal Engine (C++)RubyMineFor Ruby and Ruby on Rails.RustRoverFor Rust (also for Embedded Rust development). It also possesses tooling for TypeScript/JavaScript and SQL.WebStormFor web, JavaScript and TypeScript development. Many of JetBrains's other IDEs include the feature set of WebStorm via plugins.
Former NameDescriptionAppCodeSupports programming in C, C++, Objective-C and Swift. Unlike most JetBrains products, which are cross-platform, AppCode is only available for macOS. JetBrains announced that AppCode is being sunsetted, but received technical support until 31 December 2023.AquaA test automation IDE that supports unit tests, UI tests and API tests. It was discontinued in 2025.FleetMulti-purpose IDE, with support for collaboration and remote workflows. It was officially discontinued in 2025.Writerside Technical writing IDE. It was discontinued in 2025
The JetBrains Marketplace offers 8,860 plugins that extend the functionality of JetBrains IDEs.
ReSharper
ReSharper is a Visual Studio extension for .NET developers, first released in 2004. It is JetBrains' longest-standing commercial product and, according to JetBrains, has accumulated over 2.5 million downloads, making it the most popular extension on the Visual Studio Marketplace. It was also a key revenue source for JetBrains in its early years.
ReSharper provides on-the-fly code quality analysis for C#, VB.NET, XAML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and XML. Its features include code refactoring, code completion, navigation, find usages, and code formatting. The extension offers more than 2,200 on-the-fly code inspections and over 60 refactorings and 450 context actions.
Starting with version 2026.1, ReSharper expanded beyond Visual Studio to support Visual Studio Code and compatible editors such as Cursor, bringing JetBrains' C# tooling to a broader range of development environments. The VS Code extension provides real-time code analysis, refactorings, and navigation for C#, XAML, Razor, and Blazor, and includes a Solution Explorer and built-in unit testing support for NUnit, xUnit.net, and MSTest.
ReSharper's development influenced the creation of JetBrains' standalone .NET IDE, Rider; although plans for a dedicated ReSharper IDE were explored and later abandoned after the release of Visual Studio 2005, the work done on ReSharper ultimately formed the foundation for Rider. ReSharper is available as a standalone license or as part of the dotUltimate subscription, which also includes Rider, dotTrace, dotCover, and dotMemory.
Programming languages
Kotlin is an open-source, statically typed programming language that runs on the Java virtual machine and also compiles to JavaScript or native code (via LLVM). The name comes from the Kotlin Island, near St. Petersburg. In May 2017, Google announced first-class support for Kotlin on Android, and at Google I/O 2019, Google declared Kotlin its preferred language for Android app development.
JetBrains MPS is an open-source language workbench for domain-specific languages.
Ktor is a Kotlin-based programming framework for developing "connected applications", using the same framework on both server (JVM) and client (JavaScript, Android, and iOS).
Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) is a JetBrains technology that allows developers to share Kotlin code across multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, desktop, web, and server. It reached stable status with the release of Kotlin 1.9.20 in November 2023. The related Compose Multiplatform framework, which enables shared user interfaces, became stable for iOS in 2025.
Team tools
TeamCity is a continuous integration and continuous delivery server developed by JetBrains. It is a server-based web application written in Java. The New York Times reported that TeamCity may have been used by Russian hackers of US governmental and private agencies, in potentially "the biggest breach of United States networks in history".
Upsource was a code review and repository browsing tool supporting Git, GitHub, Mercurial, Perforce and/or Subversion repositories from a central location. JetBrains released a new developer collaboration tool, Space, in 2019. It began sunsetting Upsource in 2022, officially ending support for the product in January 2023. In May 2024, JetBrains rebranded Space to SpaceCode to focus on Git hosting and code reviews.
YouTrack is a proprietary, commercial web-based bug tracker, issue tracking system, and project management software developed by JetBrains.
Qodana is a code quality analysis tool that uses static code analysis to help users with code reviews, building quality gates, and the implementation of code quality guidelines. It was publicly launched in July 2023 and can be used with IDEs in JetBrains's ecosystem, has CI/CD pipeline integration, while supporting code analysis in over 60 programming languages.
AI tools
JetBrains AI Assistant is offered in most JetBrains IDEs as a set of AI-assisted software development tools. The assistant uses models from OpenAI and Google, and proprietary models developed by JetBrains, such as the Mellum model released in April 2025.
Junie is an AI coding agent developed by JetBrains, launched in January 2025 in closed preview. Unlike the AI Assistant, which focuses on code completion, Junie is designed to function as an AI agent for coding. In April 2025, JetBrains made Junie generally available.
Others Datalore is a web application for data analysis and visualization, which is focused specifically on the machine learning environment in Python. JetBrains Academy is an online platform to learn programming, including such programming languages as Python, Java, and Kotlin. The Academy was introduced by JetBrains in 2019, and reached 200,000 users by July 2020. Certifications were added in November 2021 after community feedback prioritized verifiability of the work done on projects. JetBrains has also developed the EduTools plugin for students, which is compatible with IntelliJ IDEA (Ultimate, Community, Educational), Android Studio, CLion, GoLand, PhpStorm, PyCharm (Professional, Community, Educational), WebStorm.
Open source projects In 2009, JetBrains open-sourced the core functionality of IntelliJ IDEA by offering the free Community Edition. It is built on the IntelliJ Platform and includes its sources. JetBrains released both under Apache License 2.0. In 2010, Android support became a part of the Community Edition, and two years later Google announced its Android Studio, the IDE for mobile development on Android platform built on the Community Edition of IntelliJ IDEA and an official alternative to Eclipse Android Developer Tool. After two years of development JetBrains open-sourced Kotlin in February 2012. In June 2015, it was announced that the support of Eclipse ADT would be discontinued, making Android Studio the official tool for Android App development.
In January 2020, JetBrains released a geometric monospaced font named JetBrains Mono, made the default font for its IDEs, under the Apache License 2.0. The font is designed for reading source code by being optimized for reading vertically with support for programming ligatures.
Financials and business model As a private company, JetBrains does not disclose detailed financial statements. However, its annual highlight reports indicate consistent growth. In its 2023 highlights, the company reported a 5.6% year-over-year revenue growth and noted 11.4 million recurring active users. This followed an 11% revenue growth in 2022, when the company reported having 15.9 million users.