Amazon Q Developer vs Sweep AI (2026)

Amazon Q Developer

by Amazon Web Services

Sweep AI

by Sweep

Pros

• ✓Works in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio and Eclipse (preview), and in the AWS Management Console, the Console Mobile Application, Microsoft Teams and Slack.
• ✓Focused on AWS work: questions about AWS resources, architecture and bills, code for AWS services, and transformations that upgrade Java applications and port .NET from Windows to Linux.
• ✓A perpetual Free Tier with 50 agentic requests per month, and a $19 Pro tier with IAM Identity Center admin controls and IP indemnity.

Limitations

• ⚠AWS will discontinue support for the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30, 2027, and points IDE users to Kiro, and the command line tool has already become the Kiro CLI.
• ⚠The Free Tier allows 50 agentic requests per month, and Free Tier content may be used for service improvement including model training unless the user opts out.
• ⚠Pro is billed monthly with no annual option, and cancelling mid-month still charges the full month and ends access immediately.

Pros

• ✓A custom Tab autocomplete model built for the JetBrains code intelligence layer, with unlimited autocomplete on every paid plan.
• ✓Remote MCP servers with OAuth 2.0 and 2.1, web search and fetch tools, and AI code review for branch diffs.
• ✓SOC 2 compliance with zero data retention by default, and Privacy Mode keeps code out of model training.

Limitations

• ⚠The VS Code and Zed extensions are newer than the JetBrains plugin, which Sweep built first.
• ⚠Chat, code generation and advanced completions draw on monthly API credits, so heavy users may need automatic top-ups.
• ⚠The Free Trial is limited to 1,000 autocompletes and $5 in API credits.