JetBrains

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Global developer-tools company best known for intelligent integrated development environments, programming languages, and software collaboration products.

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Overview

JetBrains is a privately held software company whose products are aimed primarily at software developers, engineering teams, data scientists, educators, and project managers. Founded in Prague in 2000 as IntelliJ Software, the company initially concentrated on tools that improved the productivity of Java programmers. Its first product, IntelliJ Renamer, addressed code refactoring, while IntelliJ IDEA established the company’s broader reputation as a maker of intelligent development environments. The company’s principal business is developer tooling. Its integrated development environments include IntelliJ IDEA for Java and JVM development, PyCharm for Python, WebStorm for JavaScript and web development, CLion for C and C++, Rider for .NET, GoLand for Go, PhpStorm for PHP, RubyMine for Ruby, RustRover for Rust, and DataGrip for database work. JetBrains also develops extensions such as ReSharper for Microsoft Visual Studio, which provides .NET code analysis, refactoring, navigation, and testing features. Many of these products are sold through individual subscriptions, organizational agreements, and bundled offerings such as the All Products Pack or dotUltimate. JetBrains has expanded beyond conventional desktop IDEs. TeamCity provides continuous integration and delivery, YouTrack supports issue tracking and project management, Qodana performs static analysis and quality-gate functions, and SpaceCode supports code hosting and collaboration. Datalore provides browser-based data analysis and visualization. The company also operates educational and developer-community programs, including JetBrains Academy, EduTools, complimentary educational licenses, open-source support, and the annual Developer Ecosystem survey. JetBrains is also a language and platform company. It created Kotlin, an open-source statically typed language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and can target JavaScript and native platforms. Kotlin became particularly important in Android development after Google announced first-class support in 2017 and identified it as the preferred language for Android application development in 2019. Kotlin Multiplatform, Ktor, Compose Multiplatform, and the IntelliJ Platform extend the company’s influence into shared application development, server software, tooling, and user-interface development. The company’s commercial model is largely subscription-based, supplemented by free editions, non-commercial licensing, educational access, and open-source distribution. JetBrains open-sourced the core of IntelliJ IDEA in 2009 under the Apache License 2.0, creating the Community Edition and the IntelliJ Platform. Android Studio was subsequently built on that platform. JetBrains Mono, an open-source programming font released in 2020, further illustrates the company’s practice of releasing selected tools for broad community use. In recent years JetBrains has invested in artificial-intelligence-assisted development. JetBrains AI Assistant incorporates third-party and JetBrains-developed models into its IDEs, while Junie is positioned as an autonomous coding agent. The company has collaborated with Google Cloud on remote development and Gemini model integration, and it maintains relationships with technology partners, resellers, universities, open-source projects, and developer communities. JetBrains has remained privately owned and has reported operating growth without external venture funding, although detailed financial statements are not generally public. The company has also faced scrutiny. In 2021, reporting about the SolarWinds compromise raised the possibility that an attacker might have exploited or compromised TeamCity, although JetBrains denied involvement and said it had not been contacted by government or security agencies. Following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, JetBrains suspended sales and research-and-development activities in Russia and sales in Belarus; its Russian legal entity was later liquidated. Overall,…

History

JetBrains was founded in Prague in 2000 by Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipyatkov, and Eugene Belyaev. The company originally operated as IntelliJ Software and began with IntelliJ Renamer, a Java refactoring utility. Its early products established a focus on automation, code intelligence, and productivity rather than merely providing text-editing environments. The company’s decisive early product was IntelliJ IDEA, an integrated development environment for Java and related technologies. In 2004 JetBrains released ReSharper, a Visual Studio extension for .NET developers. ReSharper became an important commercial product and extended JetBrains’ approach to code inspections, refactoring, navigation, completion, and testing beyond the Java ecosystem. Work on ReSharper later contributed to the development of Rider, JetBrains’ standalone .NET IDE. JetBrains adopted a significant open-source strategy in 2009 by releasing the core functionality of IntelliJ IDEA and the IntelliJ Platform under the Apache License 2.0. The free Community Edition broadened the platform’s reach and became a foundation for other tools, including Android Studio. Android support was added to the Community Edition in 2010; Google later developed Android Studio on the IntelliJ platform and made it the official Android development environment after discontinuing support for Eclipse ADT. The company created Kotlin, which was open-sourced in 2012 after development that began earlier. Kotlin was designed as a modern statically typed language interoperable with Java and capable of targeting the JVM, JavaScript, and native platforms. Google announced first-class Android support in 2017 and identified Kotlin as its preferred language for Android development in 2019. Kotlin’s adoption transformed JetBrains from an IDE vendor into an influential language and platform organization. Kotlin Multiplatform, Ktor, and Compose Multiplatform extended that strategy to shared application logic, server development, and user interfaces across multiple platforms. JetBrains expanded its portfolio through products for web development, Python, C and C++, Go, PHP, Ruby, Rust, databases, and data science. It also developed TeamCity for continuous integration and delivery and YouTrack for issue tracking and project management. Upsource provided repository browsing and code review before being sunset, while Space was later refocused and rebranded as SpaceCode. Datalore addressed browser-based data analysis, and JetBrains Academy and EduTools supported programming education. The company has maintained an international operating footprint, with headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in Europe, China, and the United States. It has generally remained privately held and has stated that it achieved growth without external investment. Its commercial model combines subscriptions, organizational licensing, bundled products, free editions, non-commercial access, and educational programs. JetBrains also supports open-source projects, user groups, startups, universities, and developer events. In 2020 JetBrains released JetBrains Mono, an open-source monospaced font optimized for source-code readability and programming ligatures. In 2023 it acquired Code Buddy, bringing JPA Buddy and React Buddy into the IntelliJ IDEA ecosystem. The company also expanded into software quality and artificial intelligence: Qodana provides static analysis and quality gates, JetBrains AI Assistant brings model-assisted development into its IDEs, and Junie operates as a more autonomous coding agent. JetBrains has experienced notable governance and geopolitical events. In 2012, Sergey Dmitriev was replaced as chief executive by Oleg Stepanov and Maxim Shafirov. In 2021, external reporting connected the possibility of a TeamCity compromise with the SolarWinds breach, though JetBrains denied involvement. In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, JetBrains stopped sales and research-and-development activities in Russia and sales in Belarus; the Russian legal entity was liquidated in 2023. Kirill Skrygan became chief executive in February 2024. The company continues to compete as a broad developer-platform provider, combining proprietary IDEs and team products with open-source technologies and a growing AI portfolio.

2024
Chief executive transition
[1]JetBrainsen.wikipedia.org
Kirill Skrygan became chief executive officer on 1 February 2024.
2023
Code Buddy acquisition
[1]JetBrainsen.wikipedia.org
JetBrains acquired Code Buddy and integrated JPA Buddy and React Buddy into its product ecosystem.
2020
JetBrains Mono released
[4]JetBrains Monojetbrains.com
JetBrains released an open-source monospaced font designed for source-code readability.
2017
Google announces first-class Kotlin support for Android
[9]Google announces first-class Kotlin support for Androidkotlinlang.org
Google announced official first-class support for Kotlin in Android development.
2012
Kotlin open-sourced and leadership changes
[1]JetBrainsen.wikipedia.org
Kotlin was open-sourced, while Oleg Stepanov and Maxim Shafirov replaced Sergey Dmitriev in the company’s chief executive leadership.
2011
Kotlin development begins
[3]Kotlin documentationkotlinlang.org
JetBrains created Kotlin as an interoperable statically typed language for JVM and related development.
2009
IntelliJ IDEA core becomes open source
[1]JetBrainsen.wikipedia.org
JetBrains released the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and IntelliJ Platform under the Apache License 2.0.
2004
ReSharper released
[8]ReSharper releasedjetbrains.com
JetBrains launched its Visual Studio extension for .NET development, expanding its code-intelligence approach beyond Java.
2000
Company founded in Prague
[1]JetBrainsen.wikipedia.org
Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipyatkov, and Eugene Belyaev founded IntelliJ Software, later known as JetBrains.

Products and positioning

Premium, productivity-focused developer tooling built around intelligent code analysis, integrated workflows, cross-platform development, and a broad ecosystem spanning IDEs, languages, team tools, and education.

Integrated development environment · 2001
IntelliJ IDEA
JetBrains’ flagship IDE for Java, Kotlin, and JVM development. It combines editing, navigation, refactoring, debugging, testing, build integration, version control, and framework support in one environment. The IntelliJ Platform also serves as the technical foundation for several other JetBrains IDEs and for Android Studio.
Integrated development environment
PyCharm
An IDE for Python development that combines code intelligence with debugging, testing, package management, web-framework support, scientific workflows, and data-science integrations.
Developer productivity extension · 2004
ReSharper
A Visual Studio extension for .NET developers. It provides real-time inspections, code completion, navigation, refactoring, formatting, testing support, and assistance for technologies including C#, VB.NET, XAML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and XML.
Integrated development environment
Rider
A cross-platform .NET IDE that combines JetBrains’ code-analysis and refactoring technology with a full development environment for .NET, including support relevant to game and application development.
Programming language · 2011
Kotlin
An open-source statically typed language interoperable with Java and capable of targeting the JVM, JavaScript, and native platforms. Kotlin is used for Android, server, multiplatform, and general application development.
Continuous integration and delivery
TeamCity
A server-based continuous integration and continuous delivery platform that automates builds, tests, deployment workflows, and development pipeline management.
Project and issue management
YouTrack
A web-based issue tracker and project-management product supporting software teams with task tracking, agile planning, workflows, reporting, and collaboration.
Static code analysis · 2023
Qodana
A code-quality platform that applies static analysis to repositories and development pipelines. It is designed to support code reviews, quality gates, policy enforcement, and analysis across numerous programming languages.
AI developer tool
JetBrains AI Assistant
A set of AI-assisted development capabilities integrated into JetBrains IDEs, including conversational help, code generation, explanation, transformation, and other productivity functions using third-party and JetBrains-developed models.
AI coding agent · 2025
Junie
An AI coding agent intended to handle broader software-development tasks than ordinary code completion. It entered preview in 2025 and was later made generally available.
Data analysis platform
Datalore
A browser-based environment for Python-oriented data analysis, visualization, and machine-learning workflows.
Developer collaboration · 2024
SpaceCode
A developer collaboration product focused on Git hosting and code review after the repositioning of JetBrains’ former Space product.

Controversies

2021
TeamCity allegations in SolarWinds-related reporting
Reporting raised the possibility that malicious actors could have embedded malware in or exploited JetBrains TeamCity in a way connected to the SolarWinds compromise and other security breaches. JetBrains said it had not participated in the attack and had not been contacted by government or security agencies.
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2024Developer education and community support
Worldwide
JetBrains continued distributing educational licenses, supporting schools and universities, sponsoring developer events, assisting user groups, and providing complimentary access to selected open-source projects and community experts.
Outcome. Expanded access to JetBrains tools among students, educators, open-source maintainers, and developer communities.
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2020JetBrains Mono community release
Worldwide
JetBrains released its programming font under an open-source license, presenting it as a practical contribution to developer communities and making it the default font in its IDEs.
Outcome. The font became available for broad use outside JetBrains products.
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Brand decisions

2023
Acquire Code BuddyM&A
Background
Code Buddy developed JPA Buddy and React Buddy tools relevant to JetBrains’ Java and web-development ecosystem.
Action taken
JetBrains acquired the company, its two principal products, and its development team.
Aftermath
The products were integrated into IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and continued under JetBrains.
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2022
Suspend Russian operationsStrategy
Background
The decision followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting geopolitical and operational risks.
Action taken
JetBrains suspended sales and research-and-development activities in Russia indefinitely and suspended sales in Belarus.
Aftermath
The company’s Russian legal entity was liquidated in February 2023.
Source
2012
Open-source KotlinStrategy
Background
JetBrains had developed Kotlin as a modern language interoperable with Java and suitable for JVM development.
Action taken
The company released Kotlin as an open-source language and continued developing its tooling and ecosystem.
Aftermath
Kotlin gained major Android relevance after Google’s first-class support announcement in 2017 and preferred-language designation in 2019.
Source
2009
Open-source IntelliJ IDEA Community EditionStrategy
Background
JetBrains sought to extend the reach of its development platform while retaining commercial editions and services.
Action taken
The company released core IntelliJ IDEA functionality and the IntelliJ Platform under Apache License 2.0.
Aftermath
The platform became a foundation for additional JetBrains products and Android Studio.
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Recent events

2026.10.20
Reported2026.10.20
Figma announces new MCP partners[10]Figma宣布新增MCP合作伙伴techcrunch.com
Figma announced 20 new MCP partners at its first Config conference in India, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, JetBrains, Linear, Meta, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode, and Sarvam Agents.
Unconfirmed
JetBrains releases Mellum 2.1 AI programming model with enhanced agentic coding capabilities[11]JetBrains发布Mellum 2.1编程AI模型，重点增强智能体编程能力chinaz.com
JetBrains officially released Mellum 2.1, an updated 12B mixture-of-experts AI programming model released under an open-source license, with deeply enhanced agentic programming capabilities. The company said reinforcement learning was expanded from a short final stage into the core training method, with specialized training across millions of sandbox environments, and that multi-token prediction raised single-request response speed by about 1.6x, with token throughput under high-load inference approaching twice that of the open-source model Qwen3.5-9B.
2026.10.08
Reported2026.10.09
JetBrains launches Mellum2.1 AI coding model[12]JetBrains 发布 AI 编程模型 Mellum2.1finance.sina.com.cn
JetBrains announced on October 8, 2026 the release of Mellum2.1, an upgraded 12B mixture-of-experts AI coding model with 2.5B active parameters under the Apache 2.0 license, focused on enhanced agentic coding capabilities. The company said the model nearly doubles the inference throughput of Qwen3.5-9B under high load. Mellum2.1 is now available on Hugging Face for local or self-hosted deployment, with GGUF builds for llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio and a vLLM MTP component planned.
2021.12.06
Reported2021.12.06
JetBrains adds remote development support to IntelliJ-based IDEs[13]JetBrains为基于IntelliJ的IDE加入远程开发支持tech.it168.com
JetBrains added remote development support to IntelliJ-based IDEs in the recently released 2021.3 versions, enabling users to access development environments remotely from cloud or private servers.
2021.12.02
Reported2021.12.03
JetBrains launches Compose Multiplatform 1.0[14]JetBrains 发布 Compose Multiplatform 1.0infoworld.com
JetBrains launched Compose Multiplatform 1.0, a Kotlin framework for building user interfaces for desktop, Android, and web applications.
2021.12.01
JetBrains announces Fleet editor[15]JetBrains宣布推出Fleet编辑器chinaz.com
JetBrains announced the launch of Fleet, a lightweight editor with a distributed IDE architecture.
2021.10.19
Reported2021.10.22
JetBrains launches Qodana code quality platform[16]JetBrains 推出 Qodana 代码质量平台infoworld.com
JetBrains launched Qodana, a code quality monitoring platform that integrates with its IntelliJ IDE and supports Java and Kotlin.
2021.04.07
Reported2021.04.07
NerdVision launches IDE plugin on JetBrains Marketplace[17]NerdVision在JetBrains Marketplace推出IDE插件prweb.com
NerdVision introduced an IDE plugin on the JetBrains Marketplace, allowing developers to access live production data within their IDE.
2020.04.22
Reported2020.04.22
JetBrains launches Rider for Unreal Engine[18]JetBrains推出Rider for Unreal Engineprweb.com
JetBrains announced the official launch of Rider for Unreal Engine, an IDE for Unreal Engine and Windows C++ development, and made it available for public preview.
2020.03.02
Reported2020.03.02
JetBrains releases Rider 2020.1 EAP[19]JetBrains发布Rider 2020.1 EAPtech.sina.com.cn
JetBrains released Rider 2020.1 EAP, an early-access update that includes refinements to existing features and other changes.

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