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Overview
What PlayFab does
PlayFab is Microsoft's cloud backend service for games. It provides player authentication, data storage, analytics, and multiplayer features.
What people use it for
- Backend as a service for live games, covering accounts, leaderboards and player data
- Hosting dedicated multiplayer game servers on Azure
- LiveOps, in-game economy and player segmentation for game studios
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about PlayFab.
- A title in development mode can only have up to 1,000 lifetime player account creations
- Multiplayer server costs are billed per VM compute hour on Azure virtual machines and vary by region and VM family
- Network egress is charged per GB and varies by zone, at $0.05 in Zone 1, $0.08 in Zone 2 and $0.20 in Zone 3
- Pricing is consumption based across a set of separate meters rather than a flat plan
- The vendor states prices are subject to change and that actual costs depend on the PlayFab plan and usage
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What people choose instead of PlayFab
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- PlayFabvsUnity
Unity: Create beautiful interactive content with the world's leading real-time engine
- PlayFabvsAseprite
Aseprite: Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool
- PlayFabvsGodot Engine
Godot Engine: Free and open-source 2D and 3D game engine
Pricing
What PlayFab costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 100K monthly active users
- Basic API
- Player authentication
- Data storage
Professional
$100 /mo
- Unlimited MAU
- Advanced features
- Priority support
Capabilities
Features
Player authentication
Player authentication capability
Data storage
Data storage capability
Analytics
Analytics capability
Multiplayer features
Multiplayer features capability
Economy system
Economy system capability
Matchmaking
Matchmaking capability
Cloud saves
Cloud saves capability
Leaderboards
Leaderboards capability
Azure services
Integration with Azure services
Xbox Live
Integration with Xbox Live
Game Center
Integration with Game Center
Steam
Integration with Steam
Behind it
Who makes PlayFab
- Company
- Microsoft
- Based in
- Redmond, WA
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Where to go from PlayFab
- PlayFab alternativesEvery product people weigh against it
- PlayFab pricingPlans, floors and what the tiers exclude
- PlayFab badgesWhich rules it meets, and the figure behind each
- All Game Development softwareThe full category
- Best Game Development softwareThe shortlist, and how it was cut
Best Game Development software for
Compare PlayFab with
- PlayFab vs DragonBones
- PlayFab vs Unity
- PlayFab vs Aseprite
- PlayFab vs Godot Engine
- PlayFab vs Cascadeur
- PlayFab vs Construct 3
- PlayFab vs GameMaker Studio 2
- PlayFab vs Mixamo
- PlayFab vs Pico-8
- PlayFab vs Substance 3D Painter
- PlayFab vs Adventure Game Studio
- PlayFab vs AppGameKit
- PlayFab vs Armory3D
- PlayFab vs Bevy
- PlayFab vs Buildbox
- PlayFab vs Clickteam Fusion
- PlayFab vs Cocos2d-x
- PlayFab vs CryEngine
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