Eclipse vs. IntelliJ IDEA

Eclipse

390 Reviews and Ratings

IntelliJ IDEA

348 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Eclipse	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	Eclipse is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE).	N/A
IntelliJ IDEA	Score9.4 out of 10	N/A	IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE that aims to give Java and Kotlin developers everything they need out of the box, including a smart code editor, built-in developer tools, framework support, database support, web development support, and much more.	$19.90 per month

Pricing

Eclipse

IntelliJ IDEA

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For Individual Use (Monthly billing): $19.90
per month
For Organizations (Monthly billing): $71.90
per month
For Individual Use (Yearly billing): $199
per year
For Organizations (Yearly billing): $719
per year

Pricing Offerings
Eclipse	IntelliJ IDEA
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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All Products Pack (For Individual Use) – $299 /1st year, $ 239 /2nd year and $ 179 /3d year onwards All Products Pack (For Organizations) – $979 / year

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Eclipse	IntelliJ IDEA
Considered Both Products	Open Source Verified User Chose Eclipse Compared to IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse is free of charge and that is the main advantage for me. Over the time I got used to Eclipse, I didn't want to switch even though I could, because all I need is there and it works like a charm. Compared to NetBeans, I found the community of … Incentivized Helpful? Jonah Dempcy Web & Mobile Developer in Engineering at Bluefire Productions (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Eclipse NetBeans is the closest competitor I've found to Eclipse for Java development. IntelliJ IDEA is good as well but it isn't free. NetBeans is a free competitor that has split the Java community, and a lot of it comes down to preference, like the famous vim vs. emacs wars. I would … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Puniyani Senior Software Engineer In Test in Information Technology at EPAM Systems (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Eclipse 1. Eclipse is easy to use. 2. when you are new to building something you can go for Eclipse as it provides a clean UI. 3. Provide support to connect with other tools and technology. Incentivized Helpful? Eddie Galvez Chief Architect in Engineering at Tibco (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Eclipse IntelliJ is a good IDE as well. Any motivated user can't go wrong focusing on one and then deeply learning it, and it will pay off in productivity. Note of course that one is free the other is not! I find Eclipse is stronger at managing very large projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse stands out with its feature set, reliability, and being completely free of charge. I have previously used NetBeans but had reliability issues with it, at least on Windows version. IDEA has modern UI and is significantly more user friendly than Eclipse; however, the free … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse [In my opinion,] Eclipse is the worst IDE for java right now. Incentivized Helpful? Xialin Zhu Engineering Manager in Engineering at LinkedIn (Internet, 10,001+ employees) Chose Eclipse They are both great IDEs and we use both. IntelliJ may have a larger community so there are more plugins available, which means it could be a better choice for some specific types of projects. Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Software Engineer in Information Technology at Enactor (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse is far better than NetBeans. But when compared to IntellijIdea Eclipse is a good choice when it comes to handling large projects and costs. Eclipse has room to improve on its UI and IntelliSense. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse As previously said, Eclipse is one of the most complete and useful tools for Java development. And as a plus, it's open-source and free, so you won't beat that price-quality relation. When starting with Java projects, you won't fail with Eclipse. But, if you are getting into … Incentivized Helpful? Rajshekhar Sahu Student in Information Technology at Lakshmi Narain College of Technology, Bhoapl India (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Eclipse As compared to NetBeans, Eclipse is much faster. NetBeans needs to have JDK 1.8 which sometimes creates problems if your system already has a higher version installed, besides it has a glassfish server which is hard to configure. Integration of MySQL or other database is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse First thing, Eclipse is free. So zero cost as compared to other alternatives. Eclipse has tons of tools/plugins for better development/testing, helping devs, making their lives easier. Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Verma Software Engineer in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse offers all the features in the other IDEs but without any cost. It also is memory efficient as compared to other IDEs. Various themes are available in eclipse and we can customize it according to our needs very easily. The Windows Toolkit allows us to build desktop … Incentivized Helpful? Sudha Govindaraju C# Programmer in Information Technology at IdeaQuest (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Eclipse As I already said, Eclipse might not have all the features supported by IntelliJ. However, the variety of plugins available in Eclipse make it much flexible to work with. Another main reason to go for this product was because of price (free). Since I worked for a startup, the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse was used for 3-5 years until IntelliJ became the more preferred IDE because IntelliJ has better code formatting, presentation, and navigation between different types of files. IntelliJ has a shorter learning curve and setup is easier especially for less experienced … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse and NetBeans are open-sourced and does not require a license to use the software. However, Eclipse has a wide selection of plugins to choose from to integrate any tools within the workspace, making development more accessible, and reducing the developer effort. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse used to be the defacto standard for code development. But in recent years, as it has started focusing on its other products, like Orion and Che, it's core IDE (with focus on the 'I'), has seen a slowdown in its prominence. It cannot be compared to just the massive … Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Rocketrip (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse is the best IDE on the market for Java development. It has great error and warning handling, and many integrations with useful tools - debugger, sonarqube (static code analysis), Maven / Gradle / Ant, Tomcat / Wildfly / JBoss (web servers). The best part of eclipse is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse I used IDEA prior to using Eclipse. I loved how easy I can debug in both, but the debugging feature in IDEA is just way more polished then Eclipse. Other than that, Eclipse was easy to setup and start with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse For no license, Eclipse is a very good start. IntelliJ has much greater support and tools for many things like connecting to all kinds of databases and SaaS platform such as Salesforce. Code refactoring is also very cool on IntelliJ compared to Eclipse. For Python and Django … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse looks better (though this is a matter of taste). All this fuss about SWT and native controls was worth it. Eclipse looks like a solid well thought-out application with pretty fonts and icons, while IDEA at first glance looks like a stunt toy with lame hack icons and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse We compared Eclipse primarily with IntelliJ, and the thing we liked about Eclipse was the support for plugins which makes it really customizable. The other features that we liked were the multitasking, filtering and debugging which are very carefully designed by keeping in mind … Incentivized Helpful? Ronald Melendez Consultor Senior Front-End Javascript in Research & Development at SOAINT (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Eclipse They are very similar but eclipse has greater availability of plugins that allow you to achieve much more satisfactory results, in the products that are developed, the basic configurations are a bit more difficult than in NetBeans but they are much more specific and much more … Incentivized Helpful? yixiang Shan IT Strategic Technical Advisor in Information Technology at FedEx Express (Package/Freight Delivery, 10,001+ employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse is better than NetBeans from many perspectives. IntelliJ is even better than Eclipse, but it is not for free Incentivized Helpful? Jose Miguel Siu Navarro Gerente de Desarrollo - Sector Publico in Information Technology at BIRD Consultores S.A. de C.V. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Eclipse The community around Eclipse keeps the product updated and (mostly) clean of errors. There is no commercial owner of Eclipse, so innovation is top priority for the project which leads to be more open, customizable and friendly to the users. IntelliJ is a good competitor, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Main reason to use Eclipse is that it is open source product and it is having all the features that the developer needs. So it is not necessary to bear additional costs for IDEs. Incentivized Helpful?	JetBrains Gaurav Gosavi Staff Software Engineer in Engineering at Intuit (5001-10,000 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA In summary, IntelliJ is more polished and feature-rich out of the box, especially for Java development. Eclipse is extensible but can be rougher around the edges. IntelliJ costs money for advanced features, while Eclipse is free. IntelliJ offers many developers a better … Incentivized Helpful? Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff in Engineering at athenahealth (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ stacks better against Eclipse or vs code because it provides better code suggestions, out-of-the-box SonarLint integration, and built-in support for version control with git. It also has a vast collection of plugins that can increase developer productivity, reduce … Incentivized Helpful? Tung Vu Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Adnovum (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA Eclipse is just so old, like a dinosaur, compared to IntelliJ. There are still formats that Eclipse supports better, especially old and/or propriety ones. Still, most of the modern software development needs can be done on IntelliJ, & in a much better way, some of them are not … Incentivized Helpful? Nitin Gupta Salesforce/Apttus Developer in Information Technology at Wipro Limited (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA Previously we were using Eclipse but due to the ease of understanding and easy to navigate user interface with drop downs, wizards they are better in IntelliJ moreover for experienced developers migrating to IntelliJ as compared to Eclipse. It has an easy to understand UI and … Incentivized Helpful? David Tanner Sr Software Engineer in Engineering at LifeOmic (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS) requires a lot of textual configuration, where IntelliJ IDEA provides a graphical interface with configuration options displayed. This matters a lot to me as I don't want to hunt around the internet to remember how to set different parameters … Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Software Engineer in Information Technology at Enactor (pvt) ltd (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA UI--IntelliJ IDEA is the winner. IntelliSense--Again, IntelliJ IDEA is the winner. Performance and CPU usage - IntelliJ IDEA has a lot of room to improve on this. Eclipse handle the large projects more effectively than IntelliJ IDEA. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA Much more functionality and freedom than in Eclipse, but it cost you money while the second is free. Incentivized Helpful? Sumanthkumar Nagamalli Technical consultant in Information Technology at Perficient Inc (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA I have used Eclipse also in the past. But it is slow compared to IntelliJ, it does not offer as many features as IntelliJ offers, and the integrations with third-party tools is not great. But they are open-source and they don't charge anything whereas IntelliJ charges $500 per … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ is a full featured IDES and has the most advanced set of features for developing web and desktop applications. It supports integration of the Spring framework which is necessary for web development. It supports web app scripting languages and web development … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA Since we are primarily a Scala shop, I only evaluated other tools based on their support for Scala. As I hinted at before, Vim and Sublime Text 3 have practically no support for Scala as all the Scala plugins that worked were never finished and abandoned and only work for Scala … Incentivized Helpful? Zhann Goloborodko Senior Programmer/Analyst in Information Technology at Investment Company Institute (Think Tanks, 51-200 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA Eclipse is an amazing all-purpose IDE. However, when it comes to developing Java applications, IntelliJ is far better suited. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA Before IntelliJ IDEA developers were using NetBeans or Eclipse for the development. There are many reasons to change from that application to IntelliJ. Firstly, both Eclipse and NetBeans are free and they are not providing support as IntelliJ supports for its users. Eclipse and … Incentivized Helpful? Dylan Cauwels DevOps Engineer in Engineering at CBRE (Real Estate, 10,001+ employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ is much more polished and is consistently updated with quality features. Yes, it has its flaws, but using Eclipse is the IDE equivalent of Windows Vista. I would much rather spend the extra time learning how to use all the intricate features than not have the features … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA Back in the day, there weren't too many PHP IDEs with proper syntax and code checks, but PHPStorm and IDEA worked great. So great that when I needed a Java IDE the next time, I gave it a go and have never looked back since (okay, I did keep checking the competition and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA It is much more friendly to use and has more features in terms of leading to more efficient and productive software engineers. I prefer the interface as well as the code Completion/code refactoring and error suggestions Incentivized Helpful? Lakshita Salian Manager in Information Technology at Morgan Stanley (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA Intellij is faster and smoother. SO it saves development time Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA is one of the products of JetBrains and it beats every IDE in the market in terms of performance, user experience, and productivity. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA includes FTP deployment which is ideal for legacy web applications and simple projects that don't use CI/CD. The outline view which lists methods within a class (ColdFusion component) is the easiest to use out of any other IDE and makes navigating large files a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ is very much focused on user-friendliness which I'm very fond of. Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ surpassed every single competitor. The only viable alternative I still use is VisualStudio Code build in a browser for demo purposes... other than that, IDEA does everything better, faster, and in a more comfy way. This is the best IDE out there. This is just as good … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA Compared to the other alternatives, IntelliJ is more complete, modern and robust. The other alternatives are dated and do not have features that exist by default in IntelliJ. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA I think IntelliJ has more features and is more friendly for plugin or add-on developments. IntelliJ also suites better for large companies. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA Out of all three, IntellIj is the best. The other two are light weight but don't have the plugins or code quality that Intellij provides. Incentivized Helpful?
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TrustRadius Insights
	Eclipse	IntelliJ IDEA
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published February 5, 2024 Users of both Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA have often employed these IDEs for Java development. Eclipse has been acceptable for general Java development use cases, according to reviewers, while IntelliJ IDEA is praised for its smart assistance and code analysis features. Both have been utilised for creating web applications, although IntelliJ IDEA users mention its superior support for modern frameworks and technologies. When it comes to plugin management, users have varying perspectives. Eclipse users have appreciated its vast array of plugins and the flexibility it provides. However, some have reported issues with plugin conflicts. IntelliJ IDEA users, however, praise the efficiency and seamless integration of its plugins. Finally, the degree of customization of the working environment has been another primary use case for these products. In this regard, Eclipse has stood out for its high customizability. Users are able to tailor the IDE according to their needs, although some have found this to be a bit complex. On the contrary, IntelliJ IDEA users have reported a more streamlined and intuitive interface that still allows for customization, promoting ease of use.

User Ratings
	Eclipse	IntelliJ IDEA
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (73 ratings)	9.7 (59 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	6.8 (19 ratings)	8.9 (15 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)