AI governance
JetBrains Central Console lets you manage access to AI in your organization, control spending, and track the usage, adoption, and effectiveness of AI in one place.
This page explains the key terms and concepts related to AI management in JetBrains Central Console.
Principal
A principal is any entity with access to JetBrains Central Console, such as a user, a group, or a service account. An org admin can grant AI access to principals and define credit limits and other options for them.
User
A user is a principal that represents a real person in your organization, identified by a username and an email address.
For more information, see Users.
Service account
A service account is a principal that represents a service rather than a real person.
For more information, see Service accounts.
Group
A group is a principal that includes multiple users.
For more information, see Groups.
Role
A role defines a set of permissions for a principal: what they can do in JetBrains Central Console.
For more information, see Roles.
AI access
AI access is the permission to use AI-powered features through JetBrains Central Console.
On a paid plan, access alone doesn't let a user work with AI-powered features. A user also needs an AI seat. For the full list of conditions, see AI access.
Org admins control AI access on two levels:
Enable AI access for the entire organization.
Grant AI access to specific principals.
For more information, see AI settings and AI access.
AI seat
An AI seat is a unit that an organization buys on a paid plan. A seat authorizes one user with AI access to use AI-powered features. It doesn't cover AI usage, which is charged separately in AI credits.
Service accounts don't require AI seats to work with AI-powered features.
For more information, see AI seats.
AI credits
AI credits are units of AI usage. Every user or service account with AI access can consume AI credits within the configured monthly limit. On a paid plan, a user without an AI seat can't use AI-powered features and doesn't consume AI credits.
Only usage that goes through JetBrains AI consumes AI credits. A BYOK provider charges your organization directly.
AI credit limit
The maximum number of AI credits that a user or service account can spend within a month.
For more information, see AI credit limits.