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PlayFab
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free to Start | before your title passes 100K players · 10 titles in Development Mode · 1,000 lifetime players per title · 750 free Multiplayer Server compute hours | Free |
| Standard Plan | $99/mo for included meters; then pay-as-you-go · 10 development titles · 1,000 lifetime players per title · 20M PlayStream events · 10M telemetry events | $99 a month |
| Premium Plan | $1999/mo for included meters; then pay-as-you-go · 10 development titles · 1,000 lifetime players per title · 500M PlayStream events · 500M telemetry events | $1,999 a month |
| Enterprise Plan | Enterprise account plan · Private support channels | On request |
| Pay-as-you-go | $0/mo for included meters; then pay-as-you-go · 10 development titles · 1,000 lifetime players per title | Free |
As developer.microsoft.com lists them, read 20 Sept 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from PlayFab's own pages
- Acquisition news
- Microsoft announced its acquisition of PlayFab on January 29, 2018, describing it as a backend provider for cloud-connected games across mobile, PC and console. · blogs.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- PlayStream supplies a real-time and historical event stream with rules, filtering, search and exports to Azure Blob Storage or Amazon S3. · learn.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- C/C++ platforms
- The C/C++ SDK supports Win32 x64, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, iOS, macOS, Android, Linux and Microsoft GDK. · learn.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Community
- Community features include leaderboards, friends, groups, party communication, text and voice chat, transcription and translation. · learn.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- Crunchbase lists PlayFab in Seattle, Washington, United States. · crunchbase.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase lists the legal name as PlayFab, Inc. and identifies Microsoft as its acquirer. · crunchbase.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Company size
- Crunchbase lists PlayFab's employee range as 11–50. · crunchbase.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- PlayFab states it is committed to GDPR compliance and provides hooks for players to view or delete their data; it also references COPPA-compliant games. · learn.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Data
- Game Data Stream can monitor player activity, analyze retention and revenue, and export raw data. · developer.microsoft.com, 7 Oct 2026
- Development limits
- Development Mode permits up to 10 titles and 1,000 lifetime player accounts per title, with additional event, profile, storage and CloudScript limits. · learn.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- Public documentation includes tutorials, samples, feature guides, API references, SDK downloads and Discord community support. · learn.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Economy
- Economy tools include catalogs, stores, sales, virtual currencies, user-generated content, drop tables and receipt validation. · learn.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Economy and UGC
- Economy, monetization, and user-generated content tools include virtual economies, live offers, and built-in moderation. · developer.microsoft.com, 7 Oct 2026
- Engines and platforms
- The product page lists Unreal and Unity SDKs, custom-engine language support, PC, console, mobile and streaming devices, and integrations including Xbox, Steam, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, App Store, and Google Play. · developer.microsoft.com, 7 Oct 2026
- Free evaluation limit
- Development Mode is free and allows up to 1,000 lifetime player account creations per title, with up to 10 titles per account. · developer.microsoft.com, 7 Oct 2026
- Identity
- Its identity service links player accounts across Windows, Xbox, Steam, PlayStation, Nintendo, Facebook, iOS and Android. · learn.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The product page lists integrations for Xbox, Steam, PlayStation 4 and 5, Nintendo Switch, Apple App Store and Google Play. · developer.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Microsoft describes PlayFab as serving game developers, from indie titles to AAA franchises. · developer.microsoft.com, 7 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The hosted PlayFab service is proprietary under Microsoft terms, while many SDK and sample repositories are publicly available under Apache 2.0 or MIT licenses. · developer.microsoft.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: documentation
- A Reddit developer criticized API documentation for missing or inaccurate return details and said forum answers sometimes redirected requests to feature suggestions. · reddit.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: entity data
- A Reddit developer reported that Entity data required several calls and imposed a 1 KB object limit compared with legacy storage. · reddit.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: free-tier change
- A Reddit team reported that Microsoft reduced the free development ceiling they relied on from 100,000 to 1,000 monthly active users. · reddit.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: guild queries
- The same Reddit report said the Groups API lacks a way to retrieve all groups of a given type, requiring developers to maintain their own guild index. · reddit.com, 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing complexity
- Reddit developers described per-event and per-read/write metering as difficult to estimate and warned that unbatched calls can increase bills quickly. · reddit.com, 14 Oct 2026
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