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Microsoft Visual Studio Pricing

Rating: 8.7 out of 10
Score
8.7 out of 10

Microsoft Visual Studio Pricing Plan Options

Microsoft Visual Studio has 2 pricing plans(s), starting at $45. Available deployment types include saas. Review pricing options and learn more about the product to determine which plan is right for you. A free version is available for Microsoft Visual Studio.

Plans

Professional

$45.00
per month / per month
Cloud

Enterprise

$250.00
per month / per month
Cloud

For the latest information on pricing, visit the Microsoft Visual Studio official pricing page

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What customers say about Microsoft Visual Studio pricing

Real feedback from verified users about Microsoft Visual Studio's pricing and value

Rating: 7 out of 10

A subscription is relatively costly, so maybe cost-prohibitive for a small shop.

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Rating: 9 out of 10

Negative: It can be expensive, as the licensing is per-developer, so as your tech team grows, so does your licensing cost.

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Rating: 10 out of 10

I manage the license allocation while our sys admins manage actual provisioning via the microsoft license management portals - the developers are able to install and customize the IDE to their hearts...

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Rating: 9 out of 10

Visual Studio Enterprise can be quite expensive so only purchase the Enterprise e-version for your most experienced developers.

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Rating: 10 out of 10

The size is very large and it takes a long time to install It is expensive for pro, although the community edition is free Sometimes the project format changes and this forces multiple solution files...

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Rating: 8 out of 10

Microsoft services are known to be quite expensive, so understand your budget and understand the benefits of having a Microsoft Suite.

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Rating: 10 out of 10

There are competitive products available but between the free Community Edition's zero cost to try and adopt to the feature set of the paid editions, plus the fact that it's the tool Microsoft uses... … Since Microsoft offers a free Community Edition of the IDE many of our new developers have used it at home or school and are very familiar with the user interface, requiring little training to move...

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Rating: 7 out of 10

We receive Visual Studio as part of our MSDN subscription with Microsoft (which we need for other business reasons as well), so the price is right.

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Rating: 9 out of 10

This makes it easier for college students to get familiar with the Visual Studio IDE for free and then later makes it easier to transition over to the Professional or Enterprise Editions when they...

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Rating: 9 out of 10

Also, it has many options from commercial [license] to free usage, which is a big plus for educational introduction.

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