Titles in Development Mode

When you’re ready to scale up, it’s important to make sure you switch your title from “Development Mode” to “Live.” To make this change, use the Launch button on the Game Overview page or the PlayFab main dashboard. This change ensures that the title isn’t limited to 100 unique users.

Development Mode is being replaced by Foundation Mode as of March 11, 2026. To access PlayFab services with no monthly bill for the duration of your development cycle, we recommend creating new titles in Foundation Mode. All titles that ship to an XBOX storefront will also get Foundation Mode services included as part of their platform agreement.

Developers can evaluate PlayFab services risk free using Development Mode, with no monthly bills up to the first 1000 unique users. Once a title in Development Mode hits this limit, no additional users can be created until a title is moved to a live mode. Titles can be launched through Game Manager and is then considered live. Launching a title removes all Development Mode limitations. By default, every title created starts in Development Mode. The My Studios and Titles main page indicate which state a title is in through a mark on the bottom, left corner of the title block. This indicator can also be viewed at the top of the left nav within a title. Titles in Development Mode are labeled Development. Live titles are blank. My Studios view of Development Mode title tag Title page view of Development Mode title tag Live title with blank tag

As long as your title is in Development Mode, consumption isn’t counted towards any of your billable meters.

The example below shows how meter consumption is reflected in the billing for a fictional customer called Fun Studios:

Title	Title mode	Meter Consumption
Fun Game	Live	1 million PlayStream events
Fun Game 2: The Return of Fun	Development Mode	100,000 PlayStream events

When Fun Studios visits their Billing Summary page, they only see the consumption for their Live title, Fun Game, count against their Standard Plan included resources. For more information on these topics, check out these pages:

Limits

There are some studio and title limits associated with Development Mode:

Studio limits

Limit	Amount
Titles in Development Mode	10 Titles

Title limits

Limit	Amount
Unique users	1000 users created
PlayStream events	1 million events
Telemetry events	1 million events
Profile reads	5 million reads
Profile writes	1 million writes
Profile storage	2 gigabytes (GB)
Entity statistics reads	5 million reads
Entity statistics writes	1 million writes
Entity statistics storage	100 Stat definitions, versions = 1
Entity leaderboard reads	5 million reads
Entity leaderboard writes	1 million writes
Entity leaderboard storage	50 Leaderboard definitions, 10,000 rows, versions = 1
Content and configuration reads	20,000 reads
Content and configuration writes	15,000 writes
Content and configuration storage	2 GB
CloudScript execution time	20,000 GB-s
CloudScript total executions	200,000 executions
Insights credits	Insights Performance Level 1

Definition of unique users: Unique users are the total number of players ever created in your Development Mode title, which is distinct from monthly active users or daily active users.

You can learn more about title limits at PlayFab Pricing.

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