Free · no JetBrains AI subscription needed
JetBrains Junie Lite coding agent is free, with virtually unlimited everyday use
Free Junie Lite coding agent with any JetBrains Account, virtually unlimited for everyday work
JetBrains now gives every JetBrains Account free access to Junie Lite, the free tier of its Junie coding agent. It currently runs on Qwen 3.6 27B, everyday use is virtually unlimited, and no subscription or card is needed. Sign in through Air in IDE 2026.3 or Junie CLI to start.
- Eligible plans
- Free JetBrains Accounts, AI Pro and AI Ultimate
- Eligibility
- Any JetBrains Account, including free accounts and AI Pro or AI Ultimate holders
- Benefit duration
- Standing free tier with no trial period
The briefing
JetBrains has added a free tier to its coding agent Junie. Junie Lite works with any JetBrains Account, with no JetBrains AI subscription and no card required. With the 2026.3 release, Air now ships inside JetBrains IDEs, so you can use Junie Lite right in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm and the rest of the family.
What you get
- Junie Lite currently runs on Qwen 3.6 27B. Inference stays on JetBrains infrastructure, and your code is not shared with the model provider or used for training.
- It is a standing free tier, not a trial, and it does not count down. Everyday use is virtually unlimited and no fixed quota is published; if the model hits its capacity ceiling, requests pause instead of falling back to another model.
- Free accounts, AI Pro and AI Ultimate holders can all use it, for both individuals and businesses.
- It is a good fit for routine work such as renaming fields, writing test scaffolds and bumping dependencies. For a large multi-file refactor, a frontier model is still the better pick.
- Junie Lite is available in Air and Junie CLI, not in the older AI Assistant plugin.
How to use it
- Update your JetBrains IDE to 2026.3 and open Air.
- Go to Settings, AI | Air | Accounts, log in with your JetBrains Account, click the account entry and choose Junie Lite Only. Then start a Junie session.
- Prefer the terminal? Install Junie CLI, sign in, and run /model to pick Junie Lite.
More details are in the Junie Lite docs and the Air release post.
