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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CLion

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AJetBrains offers CLion, a cross-platform IDE for C and C+.

    $9.90

    per month per user

    Microsoft Visual Studio Code

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.

    $0

    Pricing
    CLionMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Editions & Modules
    CLion for Individuals
    $99
    per year per user
    CLion for Organizations
    $229
    per year per user
    All Products Pack for Individuals
    $289
    per year per user
    All Products Pack for Organizations
    $779
    per year per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CLionMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CLionMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Considered Both Products
    JetBrains
    Chose CLion
    CLion offers the most user-friendly UI, the latest libraries, smaller-sized installation, smart code completion, an updated GNU compiler, and free student license.
    Incentivized
    Chose CLion
    Most IDEs are huge both in disk and memory which causes it to run slow, where CLion is much smaller and faster. That's what I loved about CLion, compared to its rivals. Not to mention its extensive abilities and functions in the debugging process, thanks to which, we were able …
    Incentivized
    Chose CLion
    Visual Studio is the "standard" IDE most people use. It's expensive but generally worth the cost. Where CLion comes into play, people are less concerned with using the Microsoft solution and are open to another party providing them the key IDE resource they need. It's taking a …
    Incentivized
    Chose CLion
    First thing it has better UI. When it comes to usability CLion is the best.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code's strength, compared to its rivals/alternatives, is its size, efficiency, compatibility, portability, and cross-language ability. Some IDEs are focused on one or two programming languages, containing a lot of libraries, compilers, and packages but …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    CLionMicrosoft Visual Studio Code
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (90 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.7
    (23 ratings)