JetBrains has deprecated DataSpell as a standalone IDE and is now blocking new customers from buying licenses, though anyone currently holding an active license can keep using the tool.
DataSpell is a highly specialized IDE that JetBrains built specifically for data scientists, offering first-class Jupyter Notebook support and a comfortable environment for exploratory analysis. The tool natively handles a wide array of languages, including Python, R, SQL, and Julia, giving developers interactive tables and neat visualization tools directly inside their workspaces.
JetBrains said it is killing DataSpell because maintaining a separate app when PyCharm already handles these workflows is "no longer the most effective path forward" for the development team. From September 1st, the company will start automatically converting existing individual and commercial DataSpell licenses to PyCharm Pro subscriptions, matching the remaining value with promotional AI Credits. It writes:
"DataSpell was created to focus on the needs of data science and analytics professionals within the JetBrains ecosystem. It allowed us to build and refine a dedicated experience for working with Jupyter notebooks, data exploration, and analytical workflows. These improvements have been successfully integrated into PyCharm, where they can benefit a much broader audience.
Today, we’ve reached a point where maintaining a separate product is no longer the most effective path forward."
Eligible commercial organizations will also receive fallback licenses to give their engineering teams ample time to adjust to the transition. If you have both a PyCharm Pro license and a DataSpell license already active, your existing tools continue to work as expected, and your current credentials "remain valid until the original expiration date."
Free users, including students and open-source contributors, must transition manually by applying for standard PyCharm educational exemptions. PyCharm Pro has support for things like local and remote Jupyter servers, SQL database integration, interactive scientific development, and full web development frameworks.
DataSpell is the latest product to be tossed into the JetBrains graveyard after the development team decided to focus exclusively on their core IDE lineup. Some of these products include the test automation IDE Aqua, which the company reduced to a simple plugin, and Fleet, which developers abandoned when JetBrains shifted its cloud engineering efforts toward agentic platforms.
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