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Coder vs JetBrains IDEs comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Coder
Ranking in IDE
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (25th)
JetBrains IDEs
Ranking in IDE
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the IDE category, the mindshare of Coder is 3.2%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of JetBrains IDEs is 6.9%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IDE Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
JetBrains IDEs6.9%
Coder3.2%
Other89.9%
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Featured Reviews

JK
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Centralized research workspace has streamlined GPU access and simplified remote collaboration
The best features Coder offers include easy integration into a remote environment that is accessible from everywhere, VS Code integrations, and AI integrations. The AI integrations I mentioned include various ways people access AI, such as using Cursor and Claude with various models. We have fairly extensive licensing as we are a biologics company, so the integration with Anthropic's Life Sciences has been wonderful as well as the integration with cloud workflow. Coder has positively impacted my organization by providing a central place for people to run their research and enabling us as administrators to focus on one aspect of researcher interactions with our clusters, so we do not have to provide much education or options for integrating their workflows into our clusters.
reviewer2014131 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevSecOps Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Long-term coding has benefited from intuitive UI and tools but now needs lighter performance
I am using the code completion feature in IntelliJ, and it helps me with my development processes. I use advanced debugging tools. The advanced debugging tools are useful for resolving code issues. The integration with version controls is seamless. GitHub is what I use. For my professional role, I need to use GitHub Enterprise, and the way it is set up in my enterprise, it does not allow linking it with IntelliJ. That is where I am stuck using the CLI. GitHub itself has a very robust CLI, so I have no complaints there. For personal use, GitHub integrates really well with IntelliJ. The UI is pretty good and very intuitive. I actually use the new UI which IntelliJ provides, and that is very intuitive and good.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Coder is very stable and incredibly reliable."
"Coder is a strong solution for developers who want a consistent cloud-based and repeatable development environment."
"Having the complete development environment in Linux in the same way as in Windows is already the best."
"The best features JetBrains IDEs offer include the many tools which are available inside the tool and how it makes you a faster Java developer by providing the right tools and code hinting."
"The best features offered by JetBrains IDEs include a super attractive set of language-specific tools including debuggers, symbol monitors, and the extensions that come with it, which helps me get a much more in-depth view of my code rather than relying on print or log statements."
"Fast, and I never had a crash."
"From the very beginning to the deepest thing I could possibly want to develop, I believe I could do it all using JetBrains IDEs."
"The UI is pretty good and very intuitive."
"It seems to me as one of the best IDEs in the market, they are always releasing new versions with positive improvements, and in my opinion, I recommend it in its entirety."
"Good support for refactoring."
 

Cons

"Coder can be improved by making setup easier for users who are not very experienced with infrastructure or Terraform style."
"One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory."
"I have noticed that when I switch to less powerful machines, IntelliJ seems to use up the RAM and the machine gets really slow and really hot quite quickly, which is not the case with Visual Studio."
"One thing I think could be improved in JetBrains IDEs is the integration with ChatGPT, which I feel could be deeper."
"I see as a disadvantage the high prices of the license purchase that is almost $ 500 per year since this limits the use of IDE and especially for those developers who work on their own since it requires a large investment."
"One of the main issues with JetBrains IDEs is that it is very heavy, taking a lot of time to load and using a lot of memory."
"JetBrains IDEs could be improved with even better integration of AI tools."
"Sometimes, plugins (from third parties) are not updated."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
22%
Construction Company
18%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Insurance Company
8%
Wholesaler/Distributor
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Coder?
From my perspective as an administrator, Coder is very valuable for being able to get access to the work that people are doing so I can troubleshoot it. As a general rule, it is more than sufficien...
What is your primary use case for Coder?
My main use case for Coder is providing desktop-like environments for access into our various clusters. A quick, specific example of how I use Coder for that is through our Jupiter Hub integrations...
What advice do you have for others considering Coder?
I think Coder is very accurate and reliable in terms of output and is extremely reliable as the base for our infrastructure and infrastructure interaction. Coder is deployed on-premises in my organ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JetBrains IDEs?
I have no issues at all with pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
What needs improvement with JetBrains IDEs?
JetBrains IDEs could be improved with even better integration of AI tools. I would also like it to make it easier to detect new features.
What is your primary use case for JetBrains IDEs?
My main use case for JetBrains IDEs is Java development and technical writing. I have a lot of ongoing open-source projects. I also do a lot of technical writingAzul, which is done in AsciiDoc or i...
 

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