Visual Studio Pricing Overview

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Small-Business

$$$$

19% more expensive

than the avg. Java Integrated Development Environments (IDE) product

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Mid-Market

$$$$

27% more expensive

than the avg. Java Integrated Development Environments (IDE) product

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Enterprise

$$$$

4% more expensive

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Pricing Insights

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

13 months

Average Discount

13%

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Estimated Price

$$k - $$k

Per Year

Based on data from 16 purchases.

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Firebase Free	$0	Connections 100 Database Storage 1 GB Database Transfer 10 GB Users UNLIMITED Hosting Storage 1 GB Hosting Transfer 100 GB Show More
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IntelliJ IDEA For Individual Developers	$19.90Per Month	Yearly subscription: $199 /year All Products Pack available from $ 299 /year (or $29.90 /month)

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Visual Studio Pricing Reviews

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Pathipaka S.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/17/2025

"Innovative 'Time Machine' Debugging Makes Tracking Crashes Easier"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio?

The "Time Machine" debugging technique is rewinding a program that is currently executing in order to track each step that results in a crash, even in the absence of breakpoints.

Using your own Nuget package source is simple with Diffect packages that may be related to one company.

DOTNET app implementation became simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio?

The 'Solution Reload Tax' – the constant, context-breaking pauses where it reloads the entire solution for simple external changes, like switching a Git branch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?

The "Context Switch" Nightmare

Problem: Developers often need multiple tools: one for writing code, another for debugging, a separate one for database work, and another for version control. Constantly switching between them shatters focus and kills productivity.

How Visual Studio Solves It: It’s an integrated universe, not just a text editor. The core IDE, debugger, Git tooling, database explorer, and Azure deployment are all seamlessly woven together.

Benefit to Me: I never leave the environment. My focus remains intact, which allows me to enter a "flow state" and be significantly more productive. It turns a fragmented workday into a continuous, streamlined process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Baruch O.

Software Developer

Program Development

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/7/2023

"Good for a specific purpose"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio?

If you are a C# developer, Visual Studio is built especially for you, and it covers the development work for you from end to end.

This is a software that has been developed for years, and its entire mission is to support C#, therefore you will get excellent tools for testing, understanding the code structure and refactoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio?

Visual Studio is a heavy software and in a large codebase it may work slowly, load slowly, and generally not respond properly.

For example, in a large project I had, updating a nuget package took 15 minutes, and I preferred to do it using find & replace with VSCode.

Additionally, if you have unique cases that you have to do, in a build for example, Visual Studio may not support them and you'll have to go out and edit the files manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.