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C# or ASP.NET Core never costed anything. The cost is in certain versions of Visual Studio, but that is not required. Besides Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code is popular too.

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I can recommend Jetbrains Rider [1] for anything C#. I prefer it over Visual Studio even.

[1]: https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

Is it also free to deploy? Can you deploy it on Linux?

Yes. It is also fairly straightforward to dockerize dotnet core apps[0].

[0] https://docs.docker.com/engine/examples/dotnetcore/

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