What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
A customizable extension for colorizing matching brackets
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
#8 on Marketplace for “color”, nowhere on Open VSX.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| color | #8of 19,550 | — |
| ai pair programmer | #80of 11,985 | — |
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
41 releases · first published Sept 2018
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
[Deprecated] Bracket Pair Colorizer 2’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.