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Visual Studio IDE Pricing

visualstudio.microsoft.com · IDE · refreshed 2026-05-06
IDE
Self-serve checkout
5 tiers
Quick answer

Visual Studio pricing starts at $45/user/mo for the Professional monthly plan. 4 tiers total including a free tier.

Page fetched 2026-05-09 · visualstudio.microsoft.com · Tier-based subscription
Visual Studio IDE pricing page screenshot — https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/
Source · live pricing page on 2026-05-06

visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/

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Pricing
Visual Studio pricing
As of 2026-05-09 · visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/
Enterprise standard
$499.92/user/mo
billed annually
Azure DevOps (Basic + Test plan)
$150 Azure credit per month
Premium dev/test software
Extended training and support
Power BI Pro
Professional standard
$99.99/user/mo
billed annually
Azure DevOps (Basic plan)
$50 Azure credit per month
Basic dev/test software
Training and support
Enterprise monthly
$250/user/mo
Azure DevOps (Basic + Test plan)
Access to latest and past versions of Visual Studio
Professional monthly
$45/user/mo
Azure DevOps (Basic plan)
Access to latest and past versions of Visual Studio
Cost calculator
See your real cost on each plan

Adjust seats to compare Visual Studio plans side-by-side and check the annual break-even.

How many seats do you need?

5
Professional monthly
$45.00/mo per seat
$225/mo
Professional standard
$99.99/mo per seat · $99.99/mo billed annually
$500/mo
Enterprise monthly
$250/mo per seat
$1,250/mo
Enterprise standard
$500/mo per seat · $500/mo billed annually
$2,500/mo
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Frequently asked
Visual Studio IDE pricing FAQ

Visual Studio pricing starts at $45/mo for the Professional monthly plan; a free Community edition is available; paid plans go up to $499.92/mo (Enterprise standard billed annually). Billed monthly and annually.

Visual Studio IDE's cheapest business-usable plan is Professional monthly at $45/mo. Lowest paid tier that includes the full IDE and Azure credits for business users.

Yes — Visual Studio IDE publishes a free tier.

Yes — Visual Studio IDE's purchase motion is self-serve. A checkout URL is published on the pricing page. No demo is required.

xpay scored Visual Studio IDE as agent-ready: every advertised plan is self-serve with public pricing. Visual Studio IDE publishes a pricing page with 5 discoverable plan tier(s). No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. Self-serve signup exists alongside a sales-led / custom tier. No public API documentation URL was discovered. For the full purchase simulation see the linked Agent-Ready Index scorecard.

In the IDE category, xpay's Agent-Ready Index lists alternatives ranked by their ability to support AI agent purchase. Visit the agent-readiness scorecard for Visual Studio IDE to compare with 3 nearest peers.

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AI agent readiness
Can an AI agent buy from Visual Studio IDE?
Partially Agent-Ready

49

/ 100 in xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS Index

Visual Studio scores 49/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a free entry path exists.

See the full scorecardIncludes the 6-step agent purchase simulation, score breakdown across 7 dimensions, and the one-line fix that would lift Visual Studio IDE into the Agent-Ready Verified band.
Quick facts
At a glance
Free access

Free tier

Billing cycle

Monthly or annual

Lowest paid

$45/user/mo

Self-serve checkout

4 tiers

Tier count

4

Pricing model

Tier-based subscription

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Visual Studio IDE pricing summary derived from a live read of https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/ on 2026-05-06. For the agent-readiness assessment — including the 6-step purchase simulation and a per-dimension scorecard — see xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS Index entry for Visual Studio IDE.

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