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Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Web Services

AWS's AI development assistant with an autonomous agent mode that implements features, fixes bugs, writes tests and performs code transformations across a codebase. It integrates with AWS services so it can deploy, debug Lambda functions and query CloudWatch, and is delivered through IDE plugins, a CLI and the AWS console.

AWS claims the highest SWE-Bench Leaderboard scores without publishing a figure, and discloses no user count. Verified 2026-08-13 via the Amazon Q Developer product page.

Openness

1 high confidence
1.0
source
closed
license
proprietary(AWS managed service)
self-host
no

Proprietary AWS managed service; free and Pro tiers but no source or self-hosting.

  • https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/ recorded 2026-08-13

    AWS proprietary agentic coding assistant delivered as a managed service through IDE plugins and the console; perpetual Free Tier of 50 agentic chat interactions a month plus a paid Q Developer Pro tier; no source and no self-host path

Adoption

3 low confidence
3.0

Distributed across AWS's large developer base via IDEs/CLI/Console with free + Pro tiers and enterprise case studies, but AWS discloses no hard Q Developer user count. Placed at 3 on reported traction.

  • https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/ recorded 2026-08-13

    perpetual Free Tier plus Q Developer Pro, IDE plugin distribution and enterprise privacy controls; no user, seat or install count published

Capability

4 medium confidence
4.0

AWS claims the highest scores on the SWE-Bench Leaderboard and Leaderboard Lite but attaches no number to the claim, and no current SWE-bench Verified figure for Q Developer is independently verifiable, so the benchmark claim is treated as vendor-stated and cannot lift the band. The score therefore rests on feature breadth - strong agentic coverage across implement, document, test, review and refactor - which places it at 4, below where a verified benchmark could take it.

  • https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/ recorded 2026-08-13

    agentic task autonomy plus the vendor claim "Amazon Q Developer agentic capabilities have achieved the highest scores on the SWE-Bench Leaderboard and Leaderboard Lite", with no figure attached

Verified 2026-08-13