Marketplaces and app stores

Visual Studio Marketplace

Developer extensions only

Extension store for VS Code, Visual Studio and Azure DevOps. Publishing needs a Microsoft account, an Azure DevOps organisation and a publisher ID; the verified-publisher badge needs 6 months on the Marketplace and a domain at least 6 months old.

Visual Studio Marketplace is a marketplace where AI products are published at marketplace.visualstudio.com. It takes AI products, with a rule: developer extensions only. The price is not stated on its pages. Review: every new extension and every update is scanned for malware and is not public until the scan is clear. Terms read on marketplace.visualstudio.com on 3 October 2026.

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Price: Not stated
Link you get: not stated
Review: Every new extension and every update is scanned for malware and is not public until the scan is clear
Run by: Microsoft
Their rule: Developer extensions only
Lists: AI coding and developer tools only
Where they say so: code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension ↗
Reach: HugeHuge reach: #556 by traffic in the Tranco top million; #156 of about 120 million domains by links in Common Crawl's web graph.
Checked: 3 October 2026, on its own pages

Quick answers

Does Visual Studio Marketplace take AI products?: Only some. It takes AI products, with a rule: developer extensions only.
How much does a listing on Visual Studio Marketplace cost?: The price is not stated on its pages.
How does Visual Studio Marketplace review submissions?: Review: every new extension and every update is scanned for malware and is not public until the scan is clear.

Who is listed on Visual Studio Marketplace

Our nightly read of marketplace.visualstudio.com found 6 apps we recognise from other places, among them favicon.im, favicon.io, favicon.love, static.com, vscode.dev, aka.ms. As of 8 Oct 2026. Your tracker checks whether yours is there.

How to submit to Visual Studio Marketplace

1. Prepare the kit. A one-line pitch, a description, a square logo and screenshots, and check that your product fits their rule: developer extensions only. The listing guide lists what forms ask for; the tracker builds the kit from your website.
2. Open the form. Their submit page opens from the button above once you are signed in; signing in costs nothing.
3. Wait for the review. Every new extension and every update is scanned for malware and is not public until the scan is clear. Log the submission in your tracker; it marks the listing when it appears.

Listing tracker

Know when Visual Studio Marketplace lists you.

Add your app once; we read marketplace.visualstudio.com every week and mark the listing when it appears, every night on Pro. Last read 8 Oct 2026.

Track Visual Studio Marketplace

Run Visual Studio Marketplace? A badge for your site

Tells founders you take AI tools before they read your rules, and links to your terms here. Paste it in your site's footer, so it is on your home page, where our nightly check looks:

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With the badge in your footer, this page becomes a Partner page: your logo, screenshots and an offer for founders, plus your numbers and the apps your peers list and you do not. Manage this page.

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