Starting with version 2025.2, the LSP API will be fully available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, regardless of whether a user has a paid license or no license at all. See the blog post: IntelliJ IDEA Moves to the Unified Distribution If your subscription expires, you won’t be locked out of the IDE. I…

Can you please confirm that Community IDEs will be able to run paid plugins? The license facade will still be available?

It have not changed so far and there are no definite plans to change something in this area

Thanks. Just to be sure, will Open Source Builds on GitHub (2025.3+) be able to run paid plugins? Unified and Open Source builds are new, and I simply need to confirm some points. I’m saying that because the license facade is handled by the JetBrains Marketplace Licensing plugin. It doesn’t work …

Yes, there will be this plugin as now. It is installed automatically now if a plugin depends on it. Only it is not in the installer of OSS the version, from the Marketplace. We still have Android Studio and it needs it as well

Hi In my gradle.properties to I set the platformType like this: platformType=IC Should I change it? Currently, my plugin is compatible with the following: Android Studio — build 252.0+ AppCode — build 252.0+ Aqua — build 252.0+ CLion — 2025.2+ DataGrip — 2025.2+ DataSpell — 2025.2+ GoLand…

There is no such API in IC platform, you need IU. For Community nothing changes and we don’t provide LSP there We provide LSP as API for the free tier IntelliJ IDEA unified distribution introduced recently.

So the idea is most of IC users will migrate to IU without paid subscription? And in 1-2 major releases IC will be remove?

We introduced a lot of new free features in IntelliJ IDEA so I guess many people would migrate.

LSP API available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2025.2 without paid subscription

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Ok, got it, thanks. What is the recommendation for plugin developers for the transaction versions like 2025.2 and 2025.3? Keep targeting IC or migrate the gradle.properties to IU?

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