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Rider

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What is Rider?

JetBrains supports .NET development with Rider, a .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper.

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Pricing

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For Individuals

$149

On Premise
per year per user

dotUltimate for Individual

$169

On Premise
per year per user

All Products Pack for Individuals

$289

On Premise
per year per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $14.90 per month per user
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Product Details

What is Rider?

Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE that helps to develop .NET, .NET Core, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Unity, and Unreal Engine games, or Xamarin applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It provides editing support and code insight for languages used in .NET development including C#, F#, Razor/Blazor syntax, JavaScript, TypeScript, XAML, HTML, CSS, and SQL.

Rider includes 2500+ live code inspections, context actions and refactorings provided by ReSharper, and is combined with IntelliJ Platform’s IDE feature set. Though viewable as feature heavy, the vendor states that Rider is fast and responsive.

Rider Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

JetBrains supports .NET development with Rider, a .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper.

Rider starts at $14.9.

The most common users of Rider are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Engineers in various industries have adopted JetBrains Rider as their primary IDE for .NET development, citing improved experience and productivity. For game development in Unreal, Rider has provided agility and reliability compared to other platforms. Users highly value the platform's IntelliSense capabilities, including Unreal Macros, and quick search features. In the Unity development community, Rider has become a popular replacement for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Mac. It is used extensively for both C# code development and debugging in Unity.

Rider has also found a place among backend web API developers utilizing ASP.NET Core. Users have found it to be a suitable alternative to Visual Studio Enterprise, enabling efficient development of web APIs. The IDE is also being used for application deployment and upgrades, including deploying applications into Azure and AWS. Additionally, Rider's compatibility with Linux desktops has made it an easy choice for those who prefer working on this operating system over Windows.

One of the standout features of Rider is its well-thought-out refactorings and code suggestions which contribute to cleaner and more readable code without any performance drawbacks experienced in Visual Studio. Users appreciate the smooth and stable performance of the IDE, allowing them to work without interruptions. The seamless experience provided by Rider includes features like helpful suggestions, database connections, and plugins that not only make tasks faster but also enhance overall code quality.

Overall, JetBrains Rider serves as a reliable IDE for developing, maintaining, and improving software products across a wide range of domains and use cases.

Users commonly recommend Rider for developers involved in the .NET tech stack because they find it to be a valuable investment. They also suggest trying out Rider for Python and Java development activities. Additionally, users recommend using Rider instead of Visual Studio for C# development, unless one is a die-hard Microsoft fan. Another recommendation is to compare Rider to Visual Studio and choose between the two based on personal habits and preferences. Overall, users appreciate the features and functionality that Rider offers for their development tasks.

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Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We used it instead of Visual Studio and it’s just perfect. You will never regret paying for the service. It makes your life super easy, from suggestions to database connection to all the plugins it provides. It made everyone on the team work complete tasks faster and with better quality of code
  • It’s very fast and the UI/UX part makes it very comfortable to use
  • It’s cross platform so you can find on Linux and macOS also
  • It analyses your code exceptionally well and provides very useful feedback
  • Debugging is just another level compared to Visual Studio, it’s just incredible
  • I think there could be more .net related plugins
  • More theme options like on vscode would be welcome
  • Would be great if you could write C++ for Unreal Engine
Initially you may think it’s not worth paying and that there are better free options, which is definitely a lie we once tried to live with. It has everything you may ever need in .NET world, code analysis and debugging works super well and all the SQL/noSQL related integrations are just next level compared to the competition. It’s worth every penny.
  • It’s cheap for what it provides. Their year on year contract renewal discounts are much appreciated.
  • It makes developers code and debug faster so there is less time waiting, and more action
  • They implement new features fast so with each new .NET release you do not have to wait a long time, which helped us with .NET 6 LTS
  • For web application it has everything you may ever need from typescript to SQL, even Razor related stuff. Works great with Blazor too
  • Developers are happier, a lot less stress.
  • Development process went much faster than before.
  • Ability to code .NET on Linux without fear of blue screen
It’s a great free tool but not as enhanced as IntelliJ platform that JetBrains Rider has. Debugging and access to database is not as comfortable to use. Sure, you can save money on IDE, but may need to spend it on sleeping and stress relief pills.
September 29, 2022

Good choice for developing

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as an IDE to develop, maintain, and improve SW products.
  • As good as most of the famous IDEs
  • Easy to navigate through the code
  • There's no specific thing that makes much better than the well known IDEs
Very useful to develop and maintain SW, its functionalities are perfectly suitable for this purpose.
  • Easy navigation through code
  • Debugging
  • All people using the same IDE makes it much easier to ramp-up and collaborate
  • Development and maintainment can be done in a more efficient way
Both are very similar in terms of functionalities provided, however Rider can be combined with IntellIJ adding a robust feature set.
Luiz Wendt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Rider for game development in Unreal. There are other development platforms for Unreal but Rider with the new support for Unreal really helped make the development more agile and proved to be the most reliable one. The two main features that other platforms lack are IntelliSense considering Unreal Macros and quick searches, but all the other tools within the platform are great.
  • IntelliSense
  • Quick Search.
  • Debugging
  • Code versioning Integrations.
  • Extendable plugins.
  • Forum for issues with answer from the developers.
  • Startup time. It takes a while to index big projects.
  • Rarely it loses the intellisense and the only way to get it back is by restarting.
I think it's the best IDE nowadays for game development, mainly in Unreal, but it's also the best one in cost/benefit for Unity. It might not work for people who prefer a more lightweight IDE, it's still pretty heavy and its indexing takes around 2~3GB of ram, but it's worth the quick indexing and IntelliSense.
  • Unreal IntelliSense.
  • Quick indexing.
  • Perforce integration.
  • Improve agility of development.
It helps you develop and not have to think too much about some things because of the IntelliSense support for Unreal (that others don't have) and it has a quick search with multiple types as well. Visual code has an ok search, but no IntelliSense, Visual Studio has a slow search and no IntelliSense.
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