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Remote Explorer installs statistics

By Microsoft (224 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Other

View remote machines for SSH and Tunnels.

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 19, 2026

Remote Explorer has 30,453,754 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.

It ranks #40 of 2,501 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.

It is rated 4.5 out of 5 from 12 ratings.

PluginStats has 4 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.

Installs
30,453,754
Official API · Oct 19, 2026
7-day growth
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Insufficient history
30-day growth
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Insufficient history
90-day growth
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Insufficient history
Rank
#40
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 4.50 / 5 from 12 ratings

About Remote Explorer

Visual Studio Code Remote Explorer

The Remote - SSH and Remote - Tunnels extensions let you use any remote machine as your development environment.

This extension complements the Remote - SSH and Remote Tunnels extensions by enabling the Remote Explorer view that shows a list of remote machines available to connect to.

Questions, Feedback, Contributing

Have a question or feedback?

• See the documentation or the troubleshooting guide. • Up-vote a feature or request a new one, search existing issues, or report a problem. • Contribute to our documentation • ...and more. See our CONTRIBUTING guide for details.

Or connect with the community...

Telemetry

Visual Studio Code Remote Explorer and related extensions collect telemetry data to help us build a better experience working remotely from VS Code. We only collect data on which commands are executed. We do not collect any information about image names, paths, etc. The extension respects the telemetry.enableTelemetry setting which you can learn more about in the Visual Studio Code FAQ.

License

By downloading and using the Visual Studio Remote Explorer extension and its related components, you agree to the product license terms and privacy statement.

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • remote
  • remote development

Where Remote Explorer sits in the listing

Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

All VS Code Marketplace2,501 listings · 126 pages · page 2, #20 (overall #40)
All VS Code Marketplace: every listing in installs order
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Other761 listings · 39 pages · page 1, #11 (overall #11)
Other: every listing in installs order
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Charts

Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark

Adoption over time

Remote Explorer installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 30,453,754 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.Remote ExplorerInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days30,453,754installs30.4M30.4M30.4M30.4M30.4M30.4M30.4M30.5M30.5MJul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Remote Explorer installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 30,453,754 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.
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7/30/90-day growth

Remote Explorer installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.Remote ExplorerInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace30,453,754installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
Remote Explorer installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.
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Ranking history

Remote Explorer VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #40 (by installs).Remote ExplorerVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#40current rank#38#39#40#41#42Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
Remote Explorer VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #40 (by installs).
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Ratings over time

Remote Explorer ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 12 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.Remote ExplorerRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days12ratings10.51111.51212.51313.5Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Remote Explorer ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 12 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.
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Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Recent observations

Full history (4)
Recent installs observations for Remote Explorer
Date (UTC)InstallsChange vs. previous
30,453,754+13K
30,440,751+8.8K
30,431,987+15.6K
30,416,366—

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Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.remote-explorer. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.