PyCharm Professional vs. Community Edition

Choose the PyCharm edition that’s right for you.

PyCharm Community

Free open-source IDE for the essential Python experience.

Essential Python support
Smart code editor with auto-completion
Fast navigation and search
Developer tools: debugger, testing frameworks, Git, terminal, and Docker
Read-only Jupyter notebooks
AI features plugin

PyCharm Professional

Professional Python IDE for data science and web development, with best-in-class support for Jupyter notebooks, front-end technologies, and databases.

Everything from PyCharm Community, plus:

Local and remote full-scale Jupyter notebooks, including debugging, datasets, interactive tables, dashboards, and Conda
Advanced support for Django, Flask, and FastAPI
Support for JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, and other frontend frameworks
Local AI-powered full line code completion
Popular databases: PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB
Remote development
Advanced, context-aware AI plugin

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PyCharm Community PyCharm Professional
Python
Dart
SQL
HTML
XML, JSON, and YAML
XSLT and XPath
Markdown
JavaScript and TypeScript
CSS, Sass, SCSS, and Less
Haml, Slim, and Liquid
Jupyter Notebook
dbt Core
Django
Flask
FastAPI
React and React Native
Angular
Node.js
Next.js
Vue.js
PyQT
Vite
Webpack
Gulp and Grunt
Virtualenv
Pipenv
Poetry
Anaconda
npm
Embedded terminal
with support for asyncio coroutines
40 SQL and NoSQL databases: PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and others
HTTP Client
Endpoints tool window
Git, including GitHub and GitLab
Subversion
Mercurial
Perforce
Docker and Docker Compose
Kubernetes
Terraform
Remote interpreters
SSH
WSL
Docker Containers
Remotely running PyCharm backend, hosted on Gitpod, Coder, Cloud Workstations, JetBrains CodeCanvas, and GitHub Codespaces
Dev Containers
Context-aware AI
AI in Jupyter notebooks
Django intention actions
Hugging Face
Databricks
Custom themes
Collaborative development
Settings synchronization via JetBrains Account
Issue tracker integration

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Unlock your full potential with PyCharm Professional

Why use PyCharm Professional?

Full-stack web development

Get comprehensive support for Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI, JavaScript, TypeScript, frontend frameworks, and databases. Benefit from powerful refactoring tools, the Endpoints tool window, and the HTTP Client, all of which make web development faster and more efficient.

Data Science toolkit

PyCharm supports Jupyter, Git, Conda, scientific libraries, rich databases, Databricks and Hugging face integrations, and other technologies right out of the box. Work on projects located in local or remote development environments. Whether you're developing data pipelines, prototyping machine learning models, or analyzing data, PyCharm equips you with all the tools you need.

Rich SQL and NoSQL database tools

PyCharm Professional delivers superior SQL support with advanced autocompletion for databases and easy schema navigation, connecting you to over 40 SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL and MySQL. Work efficiently with SQL queries, enjoy visual database diagramming, and easy data import/export capabilities.

Full line code completion

Experience AI-powered code completion for Python scripts and Jupyter notebooks that runs locally, ensuring your codebase stays private. Enjoy context-aware suggestions with minimal waiting time, enhancing your productivity without compromising security.

Remote development

Develop in any environment with PyCharm Professional's support for SSH, Docker, and WSL. Write, test, and debug your code on remote machines, containers, or VMs, significantly enhancing your flexibility and productivity.

Context-aware AI Assistant

Work faster with built-in AI code completion and a context-aware smart chat. Let PyCharm help you find the best way to refactor your code, generate commit messages, write documentation and unit tests, and convert files to other languages. Work more efficiently with Jupyter notebooks – get errors explained and fixed, cells refactored, and markdown generated. Code faster with Django intention actions and create models, views, and serializers in no time.

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Frequently Asked Questions

You can use and modify PyCharm Community for any and all purposes, no matter whether you're coding professionally, academically, or just as a hobby. You are allowed to utilize it for commercial use. PyCharm Community is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
You can fork PyCharm Community as long as you credit us and don’t use our trademarks in your derived version. The Apache 2.0 license requires the following:
  • You will need to give us credit by including a note in your derived version saying that it’s based on software made by JetBrains.
  • You cannot use JetBrains and PyCharm trademarks.
  • You need to include a full copy of the Apache 2 license.
  • You need to include the NOTICES file.
The difference between a personal and commercial license is a matter of who pays for and owns the software, not who uses it.
  • Personal license: You pay for and own your personal license. You can use it for work, no matter who you work for.
  • Commercial license: Your employer pays for and owns this license. This means you cannot take it with you to your next workplace; your employer gets to keep it.
Yes, you can use both licenses on multiple machines as long as your user name (login) is the same on all the machines that you’re running it on.
If you’ve had a subscription for at least one year: yes. You have a perpetual fallback license for the version that was released one year before your subscription expired and all its minor updates. Get more details here.