IntelliJ IDEA vs. NetBeans

IntelliJ IDEA

NetBeans

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IntelliJ IDEA	Score 9.4 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
NetBeans	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	NetBeans is a free and open source platform and integrated development environment (IDE).	N/A

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IntelliJ IDEA

NetBeans

Editions & Modules

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

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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

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	IntelliJ IDEA	NetBeans
Considered Both Products	IntelliJ IDEA Gaurav Gosavi Staff Software Engineer 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? Verified User Anonymous 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? Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff 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? Verified User Anonymous Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA is the most specific and oriented towards my line of work, however, after using it for years - it's also my preferred IDE that I use for personal projects as well. Jetbrains other IDE offerings are almost as good and I do use them from time to time but IntelliJ … Incentivized Helpful? Dushyant Pathak (DKP) Technology Analyst Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA has several benefits over VS Code when it comes to Java applications, including in-built Java compilers, Maven lifecycle support, Lombok preprocessing, and sonar integration. While VS Code is largely generic, IntelliJ IDEA has focused primarily on Java … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IntelliJ IDEA Eclipse Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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? LS Lakshita Salian Manager Chose IntelliJ IDEA Intellij is faster and smoother. SO it saves development time Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IntelliJ IDEA Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Notepad++ Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IntelliJ IDEA PyCharm is for Python, but otherwise similar to IntelliJ IDEA. Both IDEs are great for their intended languages. I selected Intellij IDEA because of its support for Scala. I selected Intellij IDEA over Spark SBT because it is faster and more convenient. Incentivized Helpful? Tung Vu Senior Software Engineer 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 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? Chris Barretto Engineering Manager Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ has the richest and most complete set of features out of all the IDEs I've tried. There is the most compatibility across different languages and caters to different compilation strategies. The updates come very regularly, so we know that the product is constantly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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? David Tanner Sr Software Engineer 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 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 Anonymous 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? A. Kıvanç Güler Senior Solution Engineer - Tanzu Chose IntelliJ IDEA Jdeveloper: So slow, crashes many time, leak Spring framework developer productivity support. Best performance with recommended Oracle SDK Distributions and not comparable in terms of debugging. Eclipse: More J2ee oriented cant act as Intellij IDEA cloud native development with … Incentivized Helpful? AJ Ashutosh Jha Student Chose IntelliJ IDEA Eclipse [doesn't] have smart suggestions feature, nor [does] it ha[ve] column selection mode. So, overall productivity decreases. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ is very much focused on user-friendliness which I'm very fond of. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IntelliJ IDEA Much more functionality and freedom than in Eclipse, but it cost you money while the second is free. Incentivized Helpful? SN Sumanthkumar Nagamalli Technical consultant 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? KV Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern Chose IntelliJ IDEA They are memory friendly. The boot-up really fast as compared to IntelliJ IDE. Open-source and freely available to use is one of the major reasons if someone can switch from IntelliJ. Vast community support is available in case of any issue. They occupy less space as compared … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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?	NetBeans Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans It works very smoothly as compared to other tools . The problem of restarting and reimporting the projects is not in the netbeans IDE . The front end development features are good . Netbeans connector is one of the best thing which enables us to deeply integrate netbeans IDE … Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Senior Software Engineer Chose NetBeans I would say NetBeans only shines when it comes to smaller projects. I prefer using Eclipse and Intellij over NetBeans when it comes to developing larger projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans Netbeans is great as a stand-alone java ide and for compiling your java code. The platform provides easy access to better make use of your repos. Between the other ide, NetBeans is easier for us to integrate with android SDK. The only problem is the UI and for all other code … Incentivized Helpful? Sirish Vadala Information Technology Specialist III Chose NetBeans IBM Rational Application Developer and IntelliJ IDEA are great with hell lot of features packed into the product and are subscription based. However, most of the features they were providing were moot from my organization's business perspective and the cost was expensive. … Incentivized Helpful? zahit bogus Business Intelligence Consultant Chose NetBeans It is supported primarily by Oracle and is free. This is a very important plus. Also, many things come embedded. You don't have to worry about adding library or framework. Finally, one of my favorite features is you can design the interface with drag and drop. This feature is … Incentivized Helpful? KV Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern Chose NetBeans NetBeans is open source and is freely available to use making it economical compared to Visual Studio IDE. It is fast compared to Visual Studio IDE. More Diversified Libraries are available with NetBeans to work on as compared to the Eclipse IDE. It can be used even by novices … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans IntelliJ IDEA is more feature-rich and has professional support available, but comes with increased licensing costs. Eclipse is widely used, and some of our developers still prefer Eclipse over NetBeans. However, developers spend more time working around IDE bugs when using … Incentivized Helpful? Jatin Gupta Assistant Professor Chose NetBeans The biggest pro of NetBeans for us is that it is free and open-source, and this is why we decided to go with it over other similar products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans Net beans is way better editor IDE than any other software. It is more advanced and more stable. The only problem with net beans is it consumes more resources of laptop / computer than any other editor. Sublime also supports multiple languages like NetBeans but it has a lot … Incentivized Helpful? Piyush Jain Network Engineer Chose NetBeans Formatting becomes easy. File navigation becomes easy. Can compile code in IDE itself. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans All above mentioned is good for web development and Netbeans is an IDE which can do a lot more than normal text editors. File navigation is also easy in Netbeans. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans NetBeans holds its own in comparison to other IDEs. Versus IntelliJ and Eclipse, it's a matter of preference and familiarity. Incentivized Helpful? AS Ashish Sharma Programmer Analyst Chose NetBeans … Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Useche Wordpress developer Chose NetBeans NetBeans is free, open source and offers a lot of open source plugins. If you don't have money to invest in a proprietary IDE, you can use NetBeans as the main IDE. Also, it's backed up by a great community and Apache so you know that it will receive upgrades and updates to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans NetBeans goes with other IDE's in market like Eclipse, Rational Application Development and more. I prefer NetBeans since it's a lighter version than RAD and Eclipse for building/developing Java and J2EE applications. It also has dynamic support for JavaScript, HTML, PHP. Incentivized Helpful? Carla Borges Consultor Tecnico - Java Developer Chose NetBeans I have been using NetBeans for many years and I am very comfortable with it. NetBeans is a Java IDE and for different languages such as PHP, Javascript, JavaFX, C / C ++, etc. unlike Eclipse, which is more useful only for Java. NetBeans helps the developer to develop their … Incentivized Helpful? DA dinesh audichya Software Developer Chose NetBeans It provides way to go to object or method declaration from its instance or next occurrence of object anywhere in the code. Also, it bundles difference checking and code version repos like svn, git and mercury. It almost have everything you need in development of your software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans Easy to use. Not really proprietary to a single vendor or language. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans Netbeans has a larger number of plugins than Eclipse does which makes development easier. It provides a lot of support for enterprise Java based applications. It has a powerful user interface which makes it easier to navigate through the software. It provides support for the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans Both are very good IDE's especially for Java. Both have great integrations. I chose NetBeans because of the better integration with Glassfish. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose NetBeans NetBeans is easier to use. It has a simpler UI and it's more similar with other IDEs than Eclipse. I never liked Eclipse's workspace concept, with NetBeans you just have projects. Overall I would say using NetBeans requires less learning since it's UI is more logical and you … Incentivized Helpful? Andy Erickson Senior Consultant Chose NetBeans I originally began coding with Eclipse, but found debugging to be difficult to implement; switched to NetBeans and never really looked back. When coding for specific projects (for instance Android or a Java class ) Eclipse seems to have a better foothold on integration of … Incentivized Helpful?

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	IntelliJ IDEA	NetBeans
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published September 8, 2020 IntellliJ IDEA, from JetBrains and Apache NetBeans are IDEs, both of which primarily support Java development. NetBeans is an open source option supported by its community, with a large number of community-built plugins available to support specific use cases. IntelliJ IDEA is also available for free via the Community Edition, but the paid Ultimate edition provides advanced features, and users are supported directly by the developer. Both IDEs are used across companies of all sizes, with IntelliJ IDEA being more widely adopted overall. The IntelliJ ID paid edition is far more popular across larger enterprises willing to bear the cost to enjoy official support, along with its advanced features. Features Both IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeans are well regarded and actively used IDEs, however each option presents some distinct advantages. IntelliJ IDEA is praised for its themes, particularly its dark theme; it is described by users as being pleasant on the eyes, and thus far easier to work with and ergonomic relative to other options. It is generally strong in every other area important to choosing an IDE as well: its plugin library is extensive, it integrates capably with any tool that a developer is likely to use in tandem with it, and offers direct database connectivity. Finally, its code completion feature, IntelliSense, helps developers code better, and is reliable for generating basic code. Compared to IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans is similarly praised for its ease of use and strong integration with version control options (e.g. Git). It also boasts code complete options with in-built defactoring and debugging that work. Notably, it works for Java but is not as Java-focused as IntelliJ IDEA. NetBeans also supports C/C++ and PHP development. Lastly, NetBeans includes the Visual Web Pack, which supports rapid development with drag-and-drop binding to data sources, and is well-regarded. Limitations NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA present users with some limitations to consider. IntelliJ IDEA is primarily Java-focused, and also is described by users as a resource hog, consuming high CPU and loads of memory while running. Additionally, its installation files are larger than other IDEs, leading to a tedious startup process, and upgrades that take a fair amount of time to complete. Because the Ultimate edition presents a cost, it can give the solo-dev pause when there are many free options available. NetBeans also presents resource usage issues, however these reports are primarily about performance in the course of working with large projects, with some speculating that the IDE is not terribly memory efficient. The IDE can be slow to open, and unstable when handling large projects. Additionally, the downside to being free and open source is that users do not receive individual-level white glove support. Support is available at the community level only. Pricing Apache NetBeans is available free, and is extensible with free plugins as well. IntelliJ IDEA’s Community Edition is free, but the more desirable IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate JVM IDE is available for $499 the first year, $399 the second, and $299 each subsequent year per user. For $649 per user IntelliJ IDEA is available in JetBrains’ “All Products Pack,” which bundles the Java IDE with a suite of related developer tools and IDEs (CLion, PyCharm). The second year cost for the bundle is $519, and the cost for each subsequent year is $389 per user.

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User Ratings
	IntelliJ IDEA	NetBeans
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IntelliJ IDEA	NetBeans
Likelihood to Recommend	IntelliJ IDEA is very well suited for developers working on Java, Javascript, and related technologies. It is the best IDE I've found so far for software development in Java. IntelliJ IDEA is specifically well suited for web software development using Java as it provides default configurations for web frameworks like Spring and Spring Boot. For other use cases, I feel it is more than good enough. Incentivized Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff Read full review	If your organization works with developing or supporting Java applications and is focused on running efficiently with a lean budget, NetBeans would be a good choice to consider. If your development staff uses other languages, or prefers a high level of available professional IDE support, it may be better to consider a paid option if your budget allows. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Compared to Eclipse, basically it is a easier to learn which results in faster learning curve. Good for small or mid-sized projects. Generally speaking developers can be productive in a short training and use. Very rich plug-in capability, such as out of the box support for version control systems. User friendly interface. Responsive and interactive than other IDE tools. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Great code completion, just start typing some code and the program will fill in the code. Find/Replace is a key feature and works through whole projects as opposed to just a single file. Side by side code comparison right in the interface allows me to update similar pages. I appreciate the ease of using variable highlighting, with a wave of the mouse you can see visually where a given variable exists in your code. Incentivized Andy Erickson Senior Consultant Read full review
Cons	IntelliJ IDEA wins as long as the language is Java. Outside that , e.g., in other languages, it is not so advanced. It is licensed, with a steep licensing cost. All features are not included in the free edition. It is not as light as Eclipse, so in a weak system, it can be a pain. Incentivized Dhruba Jyoti Nag Associate Read full review	Heavy software needs more RAM. It does tend to use a lot of your computer's resources if you're loading up a huge project and slow things down. Problems with configuring plugins. With every release of a new version, there are some bugs which create problems while coding. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	VS Code is maturing and has a Scala plugin now. The overall experience with VS Code - for web development at least - is very snappy/fast. IntelliJ feels a bit sluggish in comparison. If that Scala plugin for VS Code is deemed mature enough - we may not bother renewing and resort to the Community Edition if we need it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	There is always room for improvement, but I haven't met any IDE that I liked more so far. Even if it did not fit a use case right out of the box, there is always a way to configure how it works to do just that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Netbeans enhances my coding work, shows me where I have errors and helps find variable instances. I would be lost without find/replace in projects functionality as I use projects as templates for new projects. Occasionally the code hints aggravate me, but I understand that it is actually making me a better coder, working to get the 'green light' of a clean file with no errors or clumsy code. Incentivized Andy Erickson Senior Consultant Read full review
Support Rating	Customer support is really good in the case of IntelliJ. If you are paying for this product then, the company makes sure that you will get all the services adequately. Regular update patches are provided to improve the IDE. An online bug report makes it easier for the developers to find the solution as fast as possible. The large online community also helps to find the various solutions to the issues. Incentivized KV Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern Read full review	NetBeans has a very strong user community. We can find solutions here for almost all the problems we face. In addition, we can forward NetBeans Support teams the problems we cannot solve. We can get quick feedback from the support teams, but I generally try to solve my problems by following the forums. Incentivized zahit bogus Business Intelligence Consultant Read full review
Implementation Rating	This installs just like any other application - its pretty straight forward. Perhaps licensing could be more challenging - but if you use the cloud licensing they offer its as simple as having engineers login to the application and it just works. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 experience, but Eclipse remains a viable open-source alternative. Incentivized Gaurav Gosavi Staff Software Engineer Read full review	IBM Rational Application Developer and IntelliJ IDEA are great with hell lot of features packed into the product and are subscription based. However, most of the features they were providing were moot from my organization's business perspective and the cost was expensive. Eclipse is an opensource product with great features, but is difficult to configure and use as compared to NetBeans. One of the frustrating issues we faced with Eclipse was its slowness while saving a file. http://https//stackoverflow.com/questions/40166270/eclipse-neon-pathetically-slow Incentivized Sirish Vadala Information Technology Specialist III Read full review
Return on Investment	Boosts productivity: IntelliJ IDEA is efficient to operate, and with its shortcuts and customization, the possibilities to improve your productivity are endless. Clean code: IntelliJ IDEA will catch or syntax errors, or even suggest a way something could be written better, or call our your duplicated code or unused imports. An easy learning curve for new guys: It's much easier to use than some of the competition, so it helps the new guys hit the ground running by being easy to operate and understand. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It changed my way of coding. In my early days of development I never indented code, but with NetBeans my coding way has changed. One IDE for all languages. I can write code in PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in only one editor or IDE. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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