--- title: How We Measure the ROI of JetBrains IDEs | daily.dev description: JetBrains explains the methodology behind their ROI calculator for IDE and AI Ultimate subscriptions. The calculator combines regional salary benchmarks from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-measure-the-roi-of-jetbrains-ides-malxxane8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How We Measure the ROI of JetBrains IDEs | daily.dev og:description: JetBrains explains the methodology behind their ROI calculator for IDE and AI Ultimate subscriptions. The calculator combines regional salary benchmarks from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-measure-the-roi-of-jetbrains-ides-malxxane8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MALxxAne8.png og:image:alt: How We Measure the ROI of JetBrains IDEs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How We Measure the ROI of JetBrains IDEs **[JetBrains](https://daily.dev/sources/jetbrains)** · 8 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary JetBrains explains the methodology behind their ROI calculator for IDE and AI Ultimate subscriptions. The calculator combines regional salary benchmarks from the annual State of Developer Ecosystem Survey (20,000+ respondents) with self-reported productivity data from dedicated surveys of hundreds of developers. Productivity gains are applied using a task-based model: IDE boosts apply to the ~45% of time developers spend in the IDE, while AI boosts apply to ~55% of tasks. Overlapping gains are combined using a formula that avoids double-counting. The final ROI is calculated as net productivity savings minus pre-tax license costs, with the methodology explicitly described as illustrative rather than a guarantee. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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