JetBrains Is Sunsetting CodeCanvas

Elizaveta Zaytseva

We started the development of CodeCanvas back in 2022, with the strong belief that cloud development environments (CDEs) would make development faster, smoother, and more efficient. 

With this goal in mind, we launched CodeCanvas publicly in 2024 and started accumulating users. We dove into the issues they faced in their development workflows and how we could address them as a product.

Over the last year, we have implemented many new features and fixes to make a product that would truly help developers. Today, we’re announcing that we have decided to discontinue the development of CodeCanvas in its current form.

Why we are making this decision

The rapid development of AI during the last several years has drastically changed the software development landscape. While CDEs make for a perfect environment to run AI agents in because of their isolated nature, we have concluded that the current CDE setup of CodeCanvas is too niche, if not obsolete, in the increasingly AI-enabled tech industry of today. 

User and customer needs have changed and we cannot meet them with CodeCanvas the way it is right now, so we chose to drastically shift our focus and sunset CodeCanvas.

What’s next

Here’s what’s going to happen to CodeCanvas as a product:

• We will no longer be providing new CodeCanvas licenses or subscription upgrades starting October 16, 2025.
• We will continue providing support for our existing users until January 1, 2026. Before this deadline, our team will gladly consult our paid clients regarding migration options.
• Our existing users will be able to use CodeCanvas for six months, until March 31, 2026.
• After March 31, 2026, CodeCanvas public artifacts will no longer be available and your instance will stop working.

If you have any questions or require assistance, please reach out to us.

Closing words

As a team, we have reflected on what professional developers need in the AI-enabled tech landscape of today. To meet those needs, we have decided to develop a new, more modern solution.

We are now creating an AI-first, cloud-native product that will help professional teams adopt AI and work with autonomous AI agents, and CDEs will play an important role in the final product design. Stay tuned for more updates!

We would like to extend our gratitude to every single user of CodeCanvas. Our goal in creating CodeCanvas was to make development more enjoyable for you as developers, and you gave us lots of useful information that will help us make our new product even better. Thank you for being part of our journey – we hope to see you again once our new solution is up and running!

Kindly,
The CodeCanvas team