&gt; Their first response was that it&#x27;s cheaper than before.<p>It is cheaper if you are using a number of their products.  It&#x27;s the same price for the individual products I&#x27;m currently using.  Net for me is that it&#x27;s cheaper.<p>&gt; Which is fine, except I&#x27;ve never heard of a developer who would do that.<p>I don&#x27;t code in Python or Ruby every day, but when I do, it&#x27;s usually for a specific project, and having PyCharm or RubyMine at a low price point and in an environment that I&#x27;m familiar with is nice to have.  I wouldn&#x27;t want to buy the IDE outright, but the lower price point is more attractive.