JetBrainer here. You're right about the Claude terms of use issue.

About compared with Codex, we have some tricks up our sleeve that are actually valuable for the target market we're going after: folks that want to understand and own what they've done. Watch for the videos we'll be doing (and look for my shining face in the PyCharm channel.)

On the last point...yes, the downside of choice is choice.

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There's an ACP connector that allows you to use Claude with a subscribtion.

It's not bundled with the IDEs but it's available on github

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We are sorry to make you feel like we de-prioritized ReSharper. Actually, we do not. For quite a while we were busing with working on one of the most important change in ReSharper - making it work out of VS process. This is now a default mode starting with 2026.2.1: https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/#out-of-process This was also accompanied with a huge work on various performance issues and freezes.

Another big thing for ReSharper was unlocking VS users to use more agents in VS: https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/#preview-of-acp.... Next release we plan to bring in Claude Code and OpenAI Codex via this ACP entrance. And then we will combine that with the classical ReSharper intelligence in the format of skills, hooks, etc.

As for the free tier, in VS Code it's indeed there for non-commercial usage, but we don't see that many non-commercial users in VS. Majority of ReSharper users are organizational clients. That's why our decision on licensing. Hope that explains. But open to any feedbacks here.

Refactoring when you know the shortcuts and what you want to do is still significantly faster and less error prone than letting an llm do it. That is why I started semedit[0], to bring semantically editing to LLMs. I’m still working on the benchmarking harness but the first results where I get the llm to actually use the tools look promising.

[0]: https://github.com/spockz/semantic-editor