Estimate your monthly charges for Party

Connectivity

Which method do you want to use to calculate the connectivity minutes?

Connectivity minutes

Peak concurrent users

Total game sessions

Unique daily players

How many minutes total are players connected to the network in a month?

minutes

Example: 2 players connected for 5 minutes each is 10 minutes

What is the peak concurrent users?

users

How many game sessions per day are there?

games

What is the average game session length?

minutes

How much playtime does each user have each day?

minutes

How many active users each day?

users

Which pricing plan do you want to use?

Pay-as-you-go

Standard

Premium

ID@Azure (NEW!)

What percentage of players sign in with Xbox Live?

Party usage generated from Xbox Live players is FREE

How many players on average are there in each game session?

players

Between 2 and 32

Calculate game data network egress

What is your average game data payload size?

bytes

What is the update frequency of your game data?

messages / second

Less than 30 messages per second for best performance and efficiency

What percentage of connected time is the game actively sending game data at the above rate / frequency?

Calculate voice minutes and network egress

What is the percentage of total connectivity minutes that a player is speaking?

A range of 1-5% is typical

Connectivity

If you have further questions, contact someone from PlayFab.

	Connectivity minutes	Peak Concurrent Users	Game data	Voice data	Est. monthly charge For Pay as You Go	Est. monthly charge For Standard	Est. monthly charge For Premium	Est. monthly charge For ID@Azure
SMALL	11M	1.1k	55GB	66K	$33	$26	FREE	FREE
MEDIUM	113M	4k	13TB	1.7M	$942	$859	$652	FREE
LARGE	314M	10K	191TB	2M	$8,108	$7,999	$7,809	FREE