Register PyCharm

Last modified: 12 November 2024

Available only in PyCharm Professional: download to try or compare editions

You can evaluate PyCharm Professional for up to 30 days free of charge.

Activation options

Start a free trial

  • In the dialog that opens when you start PyCharm Professional, click Start Free 30-Day Trial.

    The Licenses dialog with the options to select whether to start a trial or activate PyCharm Professional

    You will be redirected to the JetBrains website where you will see a confirmation that your trial has started.

After the trial version expires, you need to buy and register a commercial license to continue using PyCharm Professional. A new trial period will be available for the next released version of PyCharm Professional.

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PyCharm Community Edition is free and can be used without any license. You cannot upgrade to PyCharm Professional: download and install it separately as described in Install PyCharm.

Activate PyCharm license

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For more information on our licensing model, refer to the Licensing and Purchasing FAQ.

  1. Select Help | Register from the main menu or click Options Menu | Manage License on the Welcome screen to open the Licenses dialog.

    PyCharm: Licenses dialog

  2. Choose how you want to register PyCharm or a plugin that requires a license:

    Log in to your JetBrains Account and get licenses that you have purchased.

    If you don't have a JetBrains Account yet, click Register.

    Activate PyCharm license with a JB Account

    PyCharm automatically shows the list of your licenses and their details like expiration date and identifier. Click Activate to start using your license.

    Activate PyCharm license with a JB Account. License details.

    If your license is not shown on the list, click Refresh license list.

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    PyCharm detects the system proxy URL during initial startup and uses it for connecting to the JetBrains Account, Floating License Server, and License Vault. To override the URL of the system proxy, add the -Djba.http.proxy JVM option. Specify the proxy URL as the host address and optional port number: proxy-host[:proxy-port]. For example: -Djba.http.proxy=http://my-proxy.com:4321.

    If you want to disable proxy detection entirely and always connect directly, set the property to -Djba.http.proxy=direct.

After your paid license expires, you have a 7-day grace period, after which you will need to prolong the subscription to continue using PyCharm.

Activation with JetBrains Account

JetBrains Account is a convenient option to manage your licenses and activate PyCharm Professional.

To link your JetBrains Account to your PyCharm Professional installation, click Log in... in the bottom left corner of the Licenses dialog. After a successful login, your JetBrains Account username will be displayed in the bottom left corner of the dialog.

PyCharm will automatically log you into your JetBrains Account if you are using JetBrains Toolbox app to install JetBrains products and already logged in there.

If you use two-factor authentication for your JetBrains Account, you can specify the generated app password instead of the primary JetBrains Account password.

Change active user

  1. Select Help | Register from the main menu or click Options Menu | Manage License on the Welcome screen to open the Licenses dialog.

  2. Click your name in the bottom left corner of the dialog and select Log Out.

    Logging out to change the active user

    After logging out, you can log in using another JetBrains Account.

Early Access Program

Pre-release builds of PyCharm Professional that are part of the Early Access Program are shipped with a 30-days license. Log in with your JetBrains Account to start using PyCharm Professional EAP.

You can use either your JetBrains Account directly or your Google, GitHub, GitLab, or BitBucket account for authorization. You can also create a new JetBrains Account if you don't have one yet.

Login options

  1. Click Log in with JetBrains Account. You will be automatically redirected to the JetBrains Account website.

    Login dialog

  2. On the website, log in using your JetBrains Account credentials.

  3. Once you've successfully logged in, you can start using PyCharm EAP by clicking Get Started.

    If you want to participate in EAP-related activities and provide your feedback, make sure to select the Send me EAP-related feedback requests and surveys option.

    Successful login

Access to JetBrains Account: Troubleshooting

If you encounter problems when attempting to log in to your JetBrains Account, this may be due to one of the following reasons:

Log in with an authorization token

An authorization token is a way to log in to your JetBrains Account if your system doesn't allow for redirection from the IDE directly, for example, due to your company's security policy. PyCharm recognizes when redirection to the JetBrains Account website is impossible. It enables you to copy a link to generate an authorization token manually.

  1. Click Copy link and open the copied link in your browser.

    Copy the link to get an authorization token

  2. Log in to your JetBrains Account to generate an authorization token. After that, copy the token, paste it to the IDE authorization token field and click Check token. Once you've successfully logged in, you can start using PyCharm.