What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Use Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5, Opus 5, Fable 5.1) with 1M context in Copilot Chat with native vision, custom API Key, custom Base URL, reasoning, and agent tools.
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.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| anthropic | #9of 861 | #23of 252 |
| claude | #527of 3,507↑27 7d | #585of 1,340 |
19 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
6 releases · first published Sept 2026
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Anthropic Claude for Copilot Chat’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.