IntelliJ IDEA vs. Microsoft Visual Studio

IntelliJ IDEA

348 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Visual Studio

805 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IntelliJ IDEA	Score9.4 out of 10	N/A	IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE that aims to give Java and Kotlin developers everything they need out of the box, including a smart code editor, built-in developer tools, framework support, database support, web development support, and much more.	$19.90 per month
Visual Studio	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Visual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.	$45 per month

Pricing

IntelliJ IDEA

Visual Studio

For Individual Use (Monthly billing): $19.90
per month
For Organizations (Monthly billing): $71.90
per month
For Individual Use (Yearly billing): $199
per year
For Organizations (Yearly billing): $719
per year

Professional: $45.00
per month
Enterprise: $250.00
per month

Pricing Offerings
IntelliJ IDEA	Visual Studio
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

All Products Pack (For Individual Use) – $299 /1st year, $ 239 /2nd year and $ 179 /3d year onwards All Products Pack (For Organizations) – $979 / year

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IntelliJ IDEA	Visual Studio
Considered Both Products	JetBrains Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA Back in the day, there weren't too many PHP IDEs with proper syntax and code checks, but PHPStorm and IDEA worked great. So great that when I needed a Java IDE the next time, I gave it a go and have never looked back since (okay, I did keep checking the competition and … Incentivized Helpful? Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff in Engineering at athenahealth (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ stacks better against Eclipse or vs code because it provides better code suggestions, out-of-the-box SonarLint integration, and built-in support for version control with git. It also has a vast collection of plugins that can increase developer productivity, reduce … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA is the most specific and oriented towards my line of work, however, after using it for years - it's also my preferred IDE that I use for personal projects as well. Jetbrains other IDE offerings are almost as good and I do use them from time to time but IntelliJ … Incentivized Helpful? Dushyant Pathak (DKP) Technology Analyst in Information Technology at Deutsche Bank (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA has several benefits over vs code when it comes to Java applications, including in-built Java compilers, Maven lifecycle support, Lombok preprocessing, and sonar integration. While vs code is largely generic, IntelliJ IDEA has focused primarily on Java … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Barretto Engineering Manager in Engineering at Indeed.com (Staffing and Recruiting, 10,001+ employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ has the richest and most complete set of features out of all the IDEs I've tried. There is the most compatibility across different languages and caters to different compilation strategies. The updates come very regularly, so we know that the product is constantly … Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Software Engineer in Information Technology at Enactor (pvt) ltd (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA UI--IntelliJ IDEA is the winner. IntelliSense--Again, IntelliJ IDEA is the winner. Performance and CPU usage - IntelliJ IDEA has a lot of room to improve on this. Eclipse handle the large projects more effectively than IntelliJ IDEA. Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ surpassed every single competitor. The only viable alternative I still use is VisualStudio Code build in a browser for demo purposes... other than that, IDEA does everything better, faster, and in a more comfy way. This is the best IDE out there. This is just as good … Incentivized Helpful? Mariano Garcia Co CEO in Corporate at Reality Geek (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose IntelliJ IDEA For allowing me to modify to my own taste my graphic interface as my preferential option, in addition to having a wide field for high caliber project in any programming language. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IntelliJ IDEA I selected IntelliJ IDEA over Eclipse and NetBeans because of the easy to use interface, great customizable features, and it comes with features for the development of Android applications. It is the most stable IDE among the 3, it has never crashed since the moment that I have … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Daniel Sanchez Software Engineer in Information Technology at Innova4J (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Visual Studio IntelliJ IDEA is also a development IDE, but it is much more limited. The tools and methods of execution and debugging are much more complex, and there is not much support. Incentivized Helpful? lodeane kelly Software Engineer in Information Technology at Egov Jamaica Limited (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Visual Studio I selected Visual Studio IDE because of its fast syntax analysis capabilities, the ease of which I can install, update and remove packages from my application. The IDE comes with an integrated SVC plugin which allows the fast synchronization of my code. NetBeans falls down in … Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose Visual Studio It's a well [maintained], mature IDE, which has the benefit of being a [software] which only the most skilled developers works on, instead of being open source. It has a lot of very useful features, which most free IDE-s don't. Also, it has many options from commercial … Incentivized Helpful? RISHAB MADAAN Web Developer at Celayix (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Visual Studio Some of the editors are suitable for a particular programming language . For example PyCharm is suited for Python . Visual Studio has support for many languages and Visual Studio is comparatively light weight from most of the IDE . The ability to get extensions and use them is … Incentivized Helpful? zahit bogus Business Intelligence Consultant in Information Technology at EMO A.Ş (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Visual Studio The main reason why we can't choose the Visual Studio IDE is that the entity framework provides excellent solutions. Besides, there is a very strong community of users. The Visual Studio IDE has a very user-friendly display. Creating functions and creating classes is much more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio No added value. If Visual Studio costs too much then I see the point. But otherwise there is just no need for any other tool. IntelliJ is a mess, buggy and counter intuitive. Or maybe it's because java is not a particularly cool language... Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio Both are good but for Microsoft, you need to use Visual Studio IDE. Incentivized Helpful? Mariano Garcia Co CEO in Corporate at Reality Geek (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Visual Studio Because it is the product that offers the most stable synchronization and compatibility in the market with Windows OS, in addition to a graphic environment and a variety of fundamental advanced options. Incentivized Helpful? Diego Fonseca Marín Innovation manager in Research & Development at IMPESA (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Visual Studio Also VSCode; these are all IDE that support the creation of web APIs and web applications; and it can support C# (for example VSCode) but Visual Studio IDE has a better set of integrated tools in the same environment. A developer adopts it very naturally, so a person can be … Incentivized Helpful? Damien Dolan Business Analyst Developer in Information Technology at Silberline (Chemicals, 501-1000 employees) Chose Visual Studio Visual Studio can do what all of these alternatives can do and does them well. PowerApps is RAD and you just can't tweak apps like you can in Visual Studio. Xamarin is now supported in Visual Studio and IntelliJ is javascript which you can create inside of Visual Studio. Would … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Visual Studio It was better integrated with technologies we used, worked more reliably, had better IntelliSense. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	IntelliJ IDEA	Visual Studio
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (59 ratings)	9.0 (105 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (8 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (15 ratings)	8.8 (15 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)