Visual Studio Pricing
MSDN Subscriptions, now called Visual Studio Subscriptions, provides access to developer tools, cloud services, software, support and training. It’s a complete package to build your next great app for any platform with the power of Visual Studio IDE and the rich resources in your subscription.
Cloud subscriptions
With our new cloud subscriptions, you can rent Visual Studio, VSTS, and the subscriber benefits you need without a long-term contract. Billing is handled through your Microsoft Azure subscription, supporting credit card payment, purchases through the Enterprise Agreement contract*, and Cloud Solution Provider partners. If you don’t have an Azure subscription yet, no worries—it’s free to set up and you can do this while you make your first purchase.
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Visual Studio | Visual Studio | Visual Studio | Visual Studio | |||
Price per user | $2,999/yr | $539/yr | $250/mo | $45/mo | ||
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User client access license (CAL) |
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Subscriber Benefits | Cloud Services |
$150 credit per month |
$50 credit per month | Subscriber benefits not included in monthly subscriptions | ||
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Office 365 Developer subscription (up to 25 users) |
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Windows Store developer account (for publishing apps) |
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Software for dev/test | Microsoft Office Professional Plus, Project, Visio |
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Windows, Windows Server, Windows Embedded, Microsoft SQL Server |
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Sharepoint, Exchange, Dynamics & other Microsoft server software |
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Software for production use | Office Professional Plus 2016 (licensed for normal use on one device) |
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Training & Education |
Full subscription for 6 months |
Full subscription for 3 months | ||||
Pluralsight training |
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Full subscription for 3 months |
Full subscription for 3 months | |||||
6 months access to Xamarin University subscription |
3 months access to Xamarin University subscription | |||||
Opsgility – Microsoft Cloud-focused training |
Full subscription for 12 months |
Full subscription for 6 months | ||||
(print or early digital access) |
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Support |
4 incidents |
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Azure Advisory Chat |
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Azure Community |
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Online Chat |
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Visual Studio partner offers | MODERNRequirements SmartOffice4TFS and inteGREAT4TFS |
Full subscription for 6 months | ||||
Parasoft – Virtualize/SOAtest Professional Desktop |
Full subscription for 6 months | |||||
Redgate Data Tools |
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WhiteSource – TFS/VSTS Bolt extension |
Full subscription for 6 months | |||||
All prices are in US dollars.
* Using your Enterprise Agreement will require the removal of spending limits, as monetary commitments cannot be used to purchase Visual Studio Cloud subscriptions.
Additional information
Compare Visual Studio IDE features
Visual Studio licensing white paper
Visual Studio subscription documentation
Standard subscriptions
While we’ve recently dropped the “with MSDN” from the names of our main Visual Studio subscriptions, these are the same subscriptions that we’ve offered for years through software resellers on multi-year Microsoft Volume Licensing contracts, and directly through the Microsoft Store online. In most cases for standard subscriptions you will be buying Visual Studio, not renting.
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Visual Studio | Visual Studio | MSDN | Visual Studio | |||
Microsoft Store (retail) | New, per user | $5,999/ first year | $1,199/ first year | N/A | $2,169/ first year | |
Renewal, per user | $2,569/yr | |||||