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How nice of them to give me $1 off when paying yearly.

You get Full Subscriber Benefits (https://www.visualstudio.com/products/subscriber-benefits-vs) for paying yearly, you don't get any subscriber benefits if you pay monthly.

One such benefit is $50 per month of Azure credit for dev/test. That pays for the subscription right there.

You can also throw in the product licenses you get for all of their products as well. Last place I worked let me keep my VS Pro sub and I realized it gave me a TON of licenses with the sub:

http://imgur.com/uQxIeVA

You also get "Subscriber benefits" if you get the annual subscription. No idea what they are though, the site is rather vague.

Here are the subscriber benefits: https://www.visualstudio.com/products/subscriber-benefits-vs

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