Evaluation Mode
Evaluation Mode is a limited, no-charge title state for exploring PlayFab services, with a lifetime limit of 1,000 unique player accounts per title. New PlayFab titles begin in this state. Use Evaluation Mode when you want to explore a PlayFab service and determine whether it meets your needs. When you’re ready to move beyond exploration, transition out of Evaluation Mode to use production-scale capacity and features beyond Evaluation Mode limits. If your game is coming to XBOX, link a qualifying Partner Center product to receive XBOX Partner benefits. These benefits include the foundational set of PlayFab services at no additional cost. Enable usage-based billing for additional paid features and capacity.Identify an Evaluation title
Game Manager displays an Evaluation label on the title in the studio title list and within the title’s navigation. You can also review the title’s current limits in Game Manager.Evaluation Mode limits
An Evaluation title is limited to 1,000 lifetime unique player accounts. The limit counts every player account ever created for the title; it isn’t a monthly active-user or daily active-user limit. After the title reaches this limit, PlayFab rejects requests to create additional player accounts.As long as a title remains in Evaluation Mode, usage of services available in Evaluation Mode isn’t counted toward its billable meters.
This example illustrates billing treatment only. Both titles remain subject to service-specific limits and API rate limits.
Evaluation titles also have service-specific operational and API limits. To view the current limits for a title, open the title in Game Manager and select Settings > Limits. For details about how API limits are applied, see API rate limits. Features that aren’t available in Evaluation Mode, including CloudScript (classic), Multiplayer Servers, Insights, automation and experimentation, and legacy APIs, aren’t listed as allowances. Enable usage-based billing to access paid features and capacity.
Requests to APIs that aren’t available in Evaluation Mode return a permissions error and don’t complete.
Move beyond Evaluation Mode
When you’re ready to move beyond Evaluation limits, choose one or both of the following options:- Enable usage-based billing. Attach a payment instrument to the studio and turn on usage-based billing for the title. This allows the title to use paid PlayFab services and additional capacity, with usage charged according to the applicable meters and rates. There is no separate Launch Title step.
- Link an XBOX product. If your game is coming to XBOX, link its Partner Center product to the PlayFab title. A qualifying linked title receives the foundational set of PlayFab services at no additional cost through XBOX Partner benefits. A payment instrument isn’t required when the title uses only those included services.
- Use both. An XBOX-linked title can also enable usage-based billing. The title receives its included XBOX Partner benefits, while paid features and usage outside those benefits are charged according to the applicable meters and rates.