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Rider

Fast & powerful cross-platform .NET IDE.

  • Limited free plan
  • Windows, macOS and Linux

Overview

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At a glance

Rider is free for private or non-commercial use; professional or company use requires a paid licence.

It is distributed under a proprietary licence: free to use under its terms, which may change; that licence is not an open source licence.

Plans and conditions

  • Free plan: basic features are free; others are reserved for paid plans.
  • Paid subscriptions offered by the publisher.
  • Non-commercial use only, under the publisher’s terms.

Strengths

  • No credit card asked

Weaknesses

  • Limited free plan
  • Closed source

About

Rider helps you develop .NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Xamarin, or Unity applications on Windows, macOS, or Linux. It provides rich editing support and code insight for languages used in .NET development, from C#, VB.NET, and F# to ASP.NET Razor syntax, JavaScript, TypeScript, XAML, XML, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JSON, and SQL.

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Sources and checks

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  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (limits, free status, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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