

What extra benefits am I receiving?Ī: You receive perpetual license rights for the Visual Studio IDE that came with the subscription. Q: The price for a retail subscription is higher. You can research the options and prices on There are also many options through our volume licensing program. Q: What purchasing options are available to me?Ī: We provide monthly subscriptions and standard subscriptions in our direct sales channels. What should I do?Ī: Microsoft is no longer offering annual cloud subscriptions. For new customers: Q: I was considering the Annual Cloud subscription, and now I can’t find it. This section discusses questions related to the fact that Microsoft is no longer offering annual cloud subscriptions. Your subscriptions remain in place until their scheduled billing date, but don't renew when the billing date is reached. Locate the entry for the subscriptions you wish to cancel, and select Change quantity.You can create a new Azure subscription if you don't have one. Select the Azure subscription to use for billing. Sign in to the Visual Studio Marketplace > Subscriptions.Ĭhoose the subscription that you want to buy, for example - Visual Studio Professional - monthly subscription. You need to be a contributor or higher for an Azure subscription that was created for your EA subscription to purchase cloud subscriptions. Who can buy Visual Studio cloud subscriptions? You can sign up before your first purchase or during your first purchase in the Visual Studio Marketplace. To bill your purchases, you need an Azure subscription. You can still purchase new monthly cloud subscriptions. New customers are encouraged to go to to explore different options to purchase Visual Studio.

There'll be no change to existing customers experience and ability to renew, increase, decrease, or cancel their subscriptions. Microsoft no longer offers Visual Studio Professional Annual subscriptions and Visual Studio Enterprise Annual subscriptions in Cloud Subscriptions.
