IntelliJ IDEA vs. Sublime Text

IntelliJ IDEA

348 Reviews and Ratings

Sublime Text

207 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Sublime Text	Score9.8 out of 10	N/A	Sublime Text is a highly customizable text editing solution featuring advanced API, Goto functions, and other features, from Sublime HQ in Sydney.	$80

Pricing

IntelliJ IDEA

Sublime Text

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

Business: $80.00

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IntelliJ IDEA	Sublime Text
Considered Both Products	JetBrains 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? Chris Barretto Engineering Manager in Engineering at Indeed.com (Staffing and Recruiting, 10,001+ employees) 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 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? Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) 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?	Sublime HQ Verified User Chose Sublime Text I think Sublime is the most efficient text editor in terms of memory usage, especially compared to VSC. However, VSC is feature-rich and has almost all the features of IDE such as debugging tools and IntelliSense. These features are missing in sublime. There are plugins to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text is powerful, stable, versatile, and lightweight. It's also very affordable, with straightforward licensing terms. Many of the other options that we explored met some of these qualifications, but only Sublime Text checks all of those boxes. For example, NetBeans and … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	IntelliJ IDEA	Sublime Text
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (59 ratings)	9.1 (56 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (8 ratings)	8.9 (4 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (15 ratings)	9.3 (11 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)