Does playfab immediately bill you?

[olive tide]

I'm not sure how many CCU my game will have and im trying to prevent suddenly having to pay a lot. I'm only using the matchmaking system. Are payments automatic or will playfab just stop working if I havent paid in time?

[marble oriole]

Invoices are sent out at the end of the first week of the month and they encompass usage from the month prior. For example, in September invoices were sent out that billed for consumption in August.

By default, charges are automatically made against the card on file a few days after the invoice is sent out.

I'd recommend testing your project with a small number of clients to determine how much consumption it generates and extrapolate what you expect your actual consumption will be from there. If you have questions about how to see your consumption or how the pricing works I can help with that too.

[olive tide]

okay thats really good to know!!

i have another question

are you able to link a paypal account?

and is there any tool where i can input metrics and get an estimated price per month? i see 2 tools for estimating MPS and parties, but im purely using the matchmaking system and the profiles to go with that

[marble oriole]

No, paypal is not an accepted payment method. And we don't have a comprehensive pricing calculator. Fortunately, matchmaking is pretty easy to estimate.

https://playfab.com/pricing/

Pretty sure its just 1 api call = 1 request

$9.90 * (requests/1,000,000)

Profile is a little harder to estimate because the amount of data in the responses and the size of the profile. If you're only using it to authenticate and not storing profile data you can also assume 1 request = 1 read

[olive tide]

alright this is really helpful, thank you!! one last question, are entity tokens from profiles (users) and server entity tokens valid infinitely?

[marble oriole]

I think its 24 hours

[olive tide]

yep you're right. i was able to find expiration date in the returned object

shouldve checked that beforehand