[denismi]

> The AI Free tier gives you unlimited code completion and access to local AI models

Looking forward to giving this a try.

Work provides me with tooling and requires that I stick to approved AI tools, and my hobby-coding alone is just not important or regular enough to justify a paid subscription.

It's been a little annoying that I can have ollama running locally, enable ollama and configure it in my IDE, but still (seemingly?) not be able to make use of it without activating a paid AI Assistant license.

It makes perfect sense that cloud models would require payment, and that JetBrains would make some margin on that.

But I'm already paying for an IDE whose headline features have recently been so AI-focused, and if I'm also providing the compute, then I should really be able to use those features.

[jwortmann719]

You are getting the AI FRee tier with any paid license for a JetBrains IDE and as you stated it should work with local AI models. I looked through our internal documentation, and I couldn't find anything that stated anything different. If you run into issues, please open a YouTrack ticket and we can have a better discussion/look at what's going on, but with everything I see, I'd expect it to work the way you think.

[l11r]

AI assistant license is now included even in Free tier so you should be able to use Ollama without any problem after 2025.1 release.