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Product Information on PyCharm

Updated 13th October 2025

What is PyCharm?

PyCharm is a software developed by JetBrains that serves as an integrated development environment for Python programming. The software provides code analysis, graphical debugging, integrated testing, and support for web development frameworks. PyCharm offers intelligent code completion, error checking, automated code refactoring, and project navigation functionalities. The software includes tools for database integration, version control, and collaboration features, facilitating efficient management of Python projects. PyCharm addresses the need for a streamlined development workflow and assists in maintaining code quality and consistency in Python-based applications.

PyCharm Pricing

PyCharm software offers a pricing model that includes both a free Community edition and a paid Professional edition. The Professional edition follows a subscription-based structure with monthly or yearly payments, and pricing varies depending on individual, business, or organizational licensing. Discounts may be available for students, teachers, startups, and non-profit organizations.

Overall experience with PyCharm

SOFTWARE ENGINEER
30B + USD, Services (non-Government)
FAVORABLE

“PyCharmful!”

5.0
Nov 3, 2025
PyCharm is... charmful! PyCharm has proven itself to be a necessity for my Python development, offering complex IDE features such as intelligent code completion, which is becoming an increasingly prevalent demand from developers, integrated testing and virtual environment management, a thing of beauty for Python. It integrates with the essential technologies well, such as Git and web development frameworks. As a move away from more traditional IDEs that students particularly are always told to use, PyCharm can at first seem difficult to grasp and introduces barriers to entry just to get started. An overwhelming feeling for any new developers who are entering an enterprise that relies on PyCharm.
Security Analyst
500M - 1B USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Specialized Python Support in PyCharm Offset by Performance and Accessibility Issues”

3.0
Jan 30, 2026
PyCharm is a full fledged IDE offering everything you'd expect from in a modern IDE but with a unique specialization in Python, offering useful integrations for python libraries like django and flask, and unfortunately some added bloat making it a powerful but resource intensive option.

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PyCharm

byJetBrains
in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Software
4.5

About Company

Company Description

Updated 26th August 2024

JetBrains is a software development company, established in 2000, that focuses on creating tools to streamline and enhance the process of code development. The company's primary offering is a range of integrated development environments (IDEs) adaptable to various programming languages such as the JVM platform, C and C++, SQL, Go, PHP, Python, .NET, Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript. Complementing these IDEs, JetBrains also provides .NET and Visual Studio tools such as ReSharper and dotPeek, among others. To cater to collaborative efforts and remote work scenarios, JetBrains offers team tools like Space and TeamCity. Additionally, it has delved into creating programming languages, producing Kotlin and MPS. JetBrains is equally invested in promoting learning and education, reflected in dedicated tools like PyCharm Edu and IntelliJ IDEA Edu, and platforms for learning programming like JetBrains Academy.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2000
Head office location
Prague, Czechia
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.jetbrains.com/

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PyCharm Likes & Dislikes

Like

- Comprehensive Python Support - Virtual Environment Management - Integration with web development frameworks, particularly important for Python projects and machine learning/information visualisation - Debugging tools - Profiler for performance optimisation and refactoring

Like

The focus on Python gives PyCharm an edge in supporting Python-specific tasks, Python debugging and detailed error handling.

Like

Advanced refactoring features for extracting methods, renaming variables, methods, files, ... extracting or inlining variables and so on. Integrated testing support for pytest and unittest has been amazing for us, the ease of use when you want to iterate quickly and especially when working test-driven is amazing. The debugger is very user-friendly and straightforward. Support for frameworks, in our case specifically FastAPI, is also very helpful. The integrated database client, allowing you to stay inside your IDE when querying your databases while debugging or prototyping, will forever be one of my favorite features in JetBrains IDEs.

Dislike

- Learning curve - too many features can be daunting, especially when you just want to get started. This is particularly true as it is an IDE for Python, a first language for many developers that they will have the most experience in. - Documentation is extensive, but tutorials integrated into the IDE would be super useful into actually learning how to use all of the capabilities of PyCharm

Dislike

The main weaknesses include the slow startup time compared to more lightweight IDEs or even the python IDLE offering, a steep learning curve and some of their many features being locked behind a paywall.

Dislike

For some junior developers who weren't familiar with JetBrains IDEs, it was a bit overwhelming and tough to get used to. Especially in one of our monorepos, PyCharm is very resource intensive. It sometimes slows down after working for a while and is often slow on initial startup. It can be quite pricey if you really want to get all the advanced features it has to offer.

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  • SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    10B+ USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    PyCharmful!

    5.0
    Nov 3, 2025
    PyCharm is... charmful! PyCharm has proven itself to be a necessity for my Python development, offering complex IDE features such as intelligent code completion, which is becoming an increasingly prevalent demand from developers, integrated testing and virtual environment management, a thing of beauty for Python. It integrates with the essential technologies well, such as Git and web development frameworks. As a move away from more traditional IDEs that students particularly are always told to use, PyCharm can at first seem difficult to grasp and introduces barriers to entry just to get started. An overwhelming feeling for any new developers who are entering an enterprise that relies on PyCharm.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    PyCharm Offers Integrated Features But Sometimes Demands High Resources

    5.0
    Nov 14, 2025
    Having experience with multiple IDEs, some of them JetBrains IDEs, PyCharm was the first place I looked when we needed a proper IDE for our greenfield Python projects. The IDE did not disappoint one bit, it brings the same kind of fully integrated, smooth experience to Python that we are used to from JetBrains' other IDEs.
  • AI ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    PyCharm Offers Reliable Features But Performance Issues Emerge With Larger Projects

    5.0
    Nov 3, 2025
    I've been using PyCharm for a variety of Python projects. Everything from quick scripts to full-blown applications and overall, it's a solid IDE choice. Out of the box it feels polished intelligent code completion, good refactoring support and strong integration with version control. On the flip side when you scale up to larger codebases, team projects, or complex workflows the cracks start to show.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    PyCharm Community Edition Stable For Basics But Restrictive For Advanced Needs

    4.0
    Oct 29, 2025
    I've been using PyCharm Community Edition for a while now, and it's one of the best IDEs I have used for small personal projects. The layout is clean; the shortcuts are intuitive, and it seems like a well thought out IDE overall. But when you start working on bigger application codebases or collaborating in a team, the limitations show up fast. Many of the advanced tools needed for efficient development of larger applications, like database integration, web frameworks, and SSH Remote Development are only in the Professional version. It's a solid free option, but definitely more of a starter pack for devs.
  • SENIOR ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Resource Intensity and Cost Concerns Reported With Local PyCharm Installations

    4.0
    Dec 28, 2025
    PyCharm is one of the most commonly used python programming development environments consisting of a whole bunch of pre-defined libraries and functionalities for doing all kinds of analysis and programming related to data science, analytics and data engineering.
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Evaluation & Contracting

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