Safer alternatives
Higher-scoring alternatives to Visual Studio
Scored against the same Balanced rubric as Visual Studio. We compare services in the same category — Developer — and surface those that out-score Visual Studio overall.
Comparing against
Visual Studio
https://visualstudio.com/
Fair
Raw score 68
Tied 77th · 82nd percentile
In Developer: Tied 8th · 84th percentile
MariaDB
https://mariadb.org
StrongRaw score 76+8 vs source
Aliyun
https://aliyun.com/
StrongRaw score 74+6 vs source
1st · 100th percentile
Datadog
https://datadoghq.com/
StrongRaw score 73+5 vs source
Tied 2nd · 98th percentile
ThemeForest
https://themeforest.net/
StrongRaw score 73+5 vs source
Tied 2nd · 98th percentile
Cloudinary
https://cloudinary.com/
StrongRaw score 70+2 vs source
Tied 4th · 93rd percentile