Visual Studio 2022 pricing

Visual Studio 2022 is ide / editor for AI coding — best for enterprise .net, c++, and game development with deep debugging and profiling. Here's how it's priced and what the free options are.

Pricing & plans

Pricing	Freemium
Open source	No
Setup effort	Low

Free & open-source alternatives

VS Code — Free
Cursor — Freemium
Zed — Free
Neovim — Free

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