Is there a free version of Visual Studio?

Visual Studio Community. A fully-featured, extensible, free IDE for creating modern applications for Android, iOS, Windows, as well as web applications and cloud services.

The most basic edition of Visual Studio, the Community edition, is available free of charge . The slogan for Visual Studio Community edition is “Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers”.

Visual Studio Marketplace With monthly subscriptions, you can get access to the latest versions of Studio and Azure DevOps, without a long-term contract . Billing is handled through Microsoft Azure. If you don’t have an Azure subscription yet—it’s free to set up and you can do this while you make your first purchase.