A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study

Discover the Potential ROI and Business Impact
of IntelliJ IDEA

155%Return on investment
$18.4MNet present value
9 monthsPayback period

Three-year impact model for a composite organization*

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IntelliJ IDEA in numbers

After interviews with nine representatives (including technology leaders and VPs of engineering) from organizations using IntelliJ IDEA, Forrester Consulting aggregated the data and concluded that IntelliJ IDEA has the following three-year financial impact on a composite organization*.

15%–20% less

Code review, testing, and remediation time

40 hours less

Onboarding time per new developer

40%

Percentage of developer time spent in IntelliJ IDEA

15%–20% higher

Developer coding efficiency

16 hours less

Project onboarding time

5% less

Developer turnover

Summary of savings and benefits for a composite organization

Improved code quality
$16.3M
Increased developer efficiency
$5.7M
Faster onboarding
$5.1M
Improved developer satisfaction
$3.1M

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Cover of the Forrester Total Economic Impact study of JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, commissioned by JetBrains, September 2026

About the study

JetBrains commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ study examining the potential financial impact of IntelliJ IDEA.

*Forrester interviewed nine engineering and technology decision-makers from organizations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Their organizations had between 400 and 4,000 IntelliJ IDEA users. Forrester combined their experiences into a composite global financial services organization with 2,000 IntelliJ IDEA users.