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VS Code Marketplace: how to submit, cost, DR and traffic

VS Code Marketplace is an integration marketplace with about 4.1M visits a month and a Domain Rating of 92. Free. The product link is dofollow.

What VS Code Marketplace is

The VS Code Marketplace is where every VS Code user installs extensions, which makes it essential for anything that runs inside the editor and irrelevant for everything else.

Checked on VS Code Marketplace's own pages in November 2026.

VS Code Marketplace at a glance

What a listing on VS Code Marketplace gets you

You publish with Microsoft's vsce tool under a publisher ID that can't be changed later. Your README becomes the listing page, alongside your icon, a Free or Trial label, install counts and ratings. A verified-publisher badge needs 6 months of Marketplace history and a domain at least 6 months old.

How to submit to VS Code Marketplace

1. Search VS Code Marketplace for your product first. If it's already listed, claim or update that listing instead of submitting again.
2. Open the submit page: code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension.
3. No account is needed to submit.
4. Fill in the form. Fields we saw: Topics.
5. Save the listing URL once it's public, so you can check the link later.

What our agent saw on VS Code Marketplace's submit flow

• The flow starts and stays on code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension.
• We didn't reach the last screen, so later steps may ask for more.

Recorded by our submission agent on 3 October 2026. Directory flows change, so check the live page.

Things to know before you submit

• Only VS Code extensions belong here.
• Global Azure DevOps personal access tokens retire on 1 December 2026; Microsoft now recommends federated sign-in (GitHub Actions Trusted Publishing or Azure Pipelines).

Tips for VS Code Marketplace

• Treat the README as your landing page: lead with a GIF of the extension working.
• Pick the publisher ID carefully; it's permanent.

Submit to VS Code Marketplace with your AI agent

AgentLaunch is a launch kit you open in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. Your agent submits your product to 300+ hand-checked directories, VS Code Marketplace included, from your own browser, and tracks every listing. On VS Code Marketplace specifically:

• It already knows VS Code Marketplace's submit flow from the path we recorded (code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension).
• VS Code Marketplace needs no account, so it goes straight to the form.
• It writes the listing copy for VS Code Marketplace's audience (integration marketplace) instead of pasting the same description everywhere.
• When VS Code Marketplace publishes the listing, it saves the URL and checks the dofollow link in your launch tracker.

How VS Code Marketplace compares

• Traffic: #1 of 1 in its category, against a category median of 4.1M visits a month.
• Domain Rating: 92, against a category median of 92.
• Cost: 100% of directories in this category have a free route; VS Code Marketplace is one of them.
• Links: 100% of this category give a dofollow product link; VS Code Marketplace's is dofollow.
• Accounts: 100% need no account; VS Code Marketplace doesn't either.

FAQ

Terms used here: Integration marketplace · Domain Rating · Directory traffic · Dofollow link · Free listing. Data across all 352 directories: launch directory statistics 2026.

Traffic and Domain Rating are third-party estimates. Prices, link types and rules change, so check VS Code Marketplace's own page before paying.