← VS Code Marketplace data
VS Code Marketplace statistics
Every headline figure: 64,464 extensions, 50,446 publishers, median 804 installs, top 1% holding 87.4% of all installs. Free, CC BY 4.0, recomputable.
Read this before quoting anythingThis is not a census and it is head-biased: each category was paged from the most-installed downwards until a cap, so the tail below the cap is missing. Every “under N installs” figure here is therefore a floor, not an estimate — the true share is higher, because everything the crawl did not reach lies below everything it did.
Every headline figure from this dataset in one table. All of it is
computed from the published
JSONL by the
script that renders this page, so
none of it can drift away from the data it describes.
| Measure | Value |
|---|
| Extensions reached | 64,464 |
| Publishers reached | 50,446 |
| Installs represented | 5,688,436,895 |
| Median installs | 804 |
| 25th / 75th percentile | 133 / 3,519 |
| 90th percentile | 18,668 |
| Largest single extension | 231,321,041 |
| Top 1% share of installs | 87.4% |
| Top 5% / top 10% share | 96.1% / 98.0% |
| Under 100 installs (floor) | 22.5% |
| Under 1,000 installs (floor) | 54.4% |
| Not updated since 2025-08-08 | 65.2% |
| Publishers with exactly one extension | 86.1% |
| Most extensions on one account | 286 |
| Categories | 19 |
| Median installs, 2026 cohort | 24 |
| Median installs, 5.0-star (≥5 ratings) | 26,118 |
| Median installs, 3.0-star (≥5 ratings) | 163,844 |
| Median best extension, 1-extension publisher | 606 |
| Median best extension, 11+-extension publisher | 67,362 |
| Newest row in the data | 2026-08-08 |
Quoting these
CC BY 4.0: use them anywhere with attribution. The citation, and a DOI that keeps
resolving if the data is recrawled:
Sujeito Operator (2026). What actually gets installed on the VS Code
Marketplace [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21854363
Two of these figures are easy to quote wrongly, so they are spelled out. Every
“under N installs” percentage is a floor: the crawl paged from the
most-installed downwards, so everything it missed is smaller than everything it found. And
installs are not revenue — the VS Code Marketplace has no paid tier, so nothing
here measures money.
All of it, free. One JSONL row per extension, the same data as CSV, the machine-readable
summary, the crawler that produced them and the list of rows withheld because their publisher
id has the shape of a credential. CC BY 4.0, DOI-archived, no signup and no email.
extensions.jsonl
extensions.csv
the repository
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