Amazon CodeWhisperer
Rebranded as Amazon Q Developer in 2024 — same tool, new name.
Overview
Amazon CodeWhisperer was folded into Amazon Q Developer in April 2024; AWS's free-tier AI coding assistant now ships under that name, with deep AWS API/CloudFormation awareness, reference tracking for open-source attribution, and Pro seats at $19/user/month.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Unlimited code completions
- 50 agentic requests/month
- Reference tracking
- Security scanning
- IP indemnity
- Admin dashboard
- Pooled transformation quotas
- IAM Identity Center support
Use cases
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CodeWhisperer stopped existing as a standalone product in April 2024, folded into Amazon Q Developer alongside Q Business. Readers searching for CodeWhisperer today land on the Q Developer page — same free individual tier, same AWS-specific strength in CloudFormation, CDK, and SDK suggestions, now wrapped in an agentic chat layer for multi-file edits and Java/.NET upgrades. Pricing is Free or Pro at $19/user/month, matching Copilot Pro. Reviewers rate the AWS integration highly but consistently note it's weaker outside AWS-centric codebases, with slower completions on large repos and suggestions that trail Copilot and Cursor on general coding quality. It remains a reasonable pick for teams building heavily on AWS infrastructure, and a skip for anyone shopping for a general-purpose assistant. Evaluate it as Amazon Q Developer — the CodeWhisperer name is retired.
What people say
Search for CodeWhisperer today and AWS routes you straight to Amazon Q Developer — the rename happened in April 2024, and by mid-2026 the old brand is effectively dead outside legacy blog posts and half-updated comparison articles. What changed under the hood is less dramatic than the name swap suggests: Q Developer kept CodeWhisperer's free individual tier (no credit card required), its reference tracking against open-source training data, and the AWS-flavored security scanning, while bolting on an agentic chat layer — multi-file edits, automated debugging, Java and .NET upgrade transformations — aimed at teams already living inside AWS accounts and IAM.
Pricing is Free or Pro at $19 per user per month; Pro adds IP indemnity, an admin dashboard, and pooled transformation quotas. That matches what GitHub charges for Copilot Pro, but Amazon Q leans harder on infrastructure context — CloudFormation, CDK, and SDK calls it gets right that general-purpose models often fumble.
Reviewer sentiment on G2 and dev comparison sites skews positive on AWS-specific accuracy and integration, with a recurring complaint that it's noticeably less useful the moment you step outside an AWS-centric stack — generic suggestions, slower completions on larger codebases, and head-to-head writeups that consistently rank it behind Cursor and Copilot on general coding quality. Its agentic mode has posted competitive SWE-Bench numbers, but competitive on a benchmark and pleasant to use daily aren't the same claim.
Nobody should still be searching for "CodeWhisperer" in 2026 — look up Amazon Q Developer instead. Same AWS integration story, a chat layer on top, and it still won't unseat Copilot or Cursor for teams that aren't AWS-first.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- CodeWhisperer was the first major AI coding assistant to include built-in open-source licence tracking, citing which training data a suggestion resembles.
- AWS trained CodeWhisperer specifically on proprietary AWS service documentation and internal codebases, giving it deeper knowledge of AWS patterns than any model trained on public data alone.
- The Security Scan feature uses Amazon Inspector's vulnerability detection logic, meaning it flags the same issues that AWS's professional security scanning tool would find.
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