Is there a community edition for CLion? Is CLion available as a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA?
Update from JetBrains as of May 7, 2025: Starting with v2025.1.1, CLion can be used for free for non-commercial purposes. See this blog post for more details.
CLion is a commercial product built on our own open-source IntelliJ Platform. As all other JetBrains products, CLion has a variety of licensing options, including free and paid ones. Students and open source projects qualify for free licenses. CLion is also available as a part of All Products pack. Startups can get 50% off. Check the details on our site. However, community edition is not planned for now.
In the future, a CLion-based plugin will likely be made available for IntelliJ IDEA, but this is not on our short-term roadmap due to many requests with higher priority.
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@Irmoralesb,
You can find the list of free and discounted options here: https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/buy/#discounts?billing=yearly
By the way, CLion comes with bundled Python support equivalent to the PyCharm Community Edition. Unfortunately, not the other way round.
@Anastasia Kazakova, the link you provided is dead
@Georg, seems the forum engine is adding some incorrect arguments to the link. Just copy-paste it in the browser and it will work (https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/buy/#discounts?billing=yearly)
unfortunately, the link is still not a solution, unless it's not illegal for a basement dweller like me to get a student license.
(even still though, I'd prefer not to give out my personal details just to use a piece of software that should be FOSS)
I need a community edition if I don't want to put up with resetting the evaluation period every 20 days...
it's a shame it's so hard for C/++ devs to do their work. u.u
I hope there is an open source version of Clion. So that I can write the necessary plugins for it. As an Android developer, I used this plugin for Android debugging, but for the latest version of Clion 2021.2, the plugin cannot be compiled since the change of internal interface of CidrRemoteGDBDebug.
Lixr26 These are different things - making whole CLion open source and address some API issues. Can you please contact clion-support@jetbrains.com and we'll help you with the changes in the API.
I'm studying Software Systems at an institution here in Bolivia. Due to financial constraints, I am unable to afford CLion. I kindly request you to consider making the community version available. This would greatly enhance my learning experience. I hope you take this into consideration. My utmost respect for your team; you have developed an incredible programming language interface. Greetings from Bolivia and my best wishes to you.
Hello Guys! As of 2024 autumn, what do you think to be the best solution for learning C++ programming in a JetBrains IDE, for people who cannot afford paid subscriptions, and who had used up their trial period?
A PyCharm plugin? Some workound (if any exists) within IntelliJ? Or something else?
Thank you!
Same as above, I use Dot Ultimate on my work machines, But like to tinker around with Arduino's and single board computers, however as I am learning and its always non-commercial use, I would love to get a community edition for CLion
Don't add a community edition. Software costs money to develop. This is the best c/c++ environment ever built; nothing else is close. Why should JetBrains pay developers just to give it away for free?
Keith Hamberg Well, we kinda already did, check the update on this post: Starting with v2025.1.1, CLion can be used for free for non-commercial purposes. See this blog post for more details.