Power Apps License for Developers

[sonam-tobgay]

Hi,

We are planning to purchase per-user license for a power app to be built on CDS. We have a couple of developers and trying to engage them for a project. Is there separate licensing for a development environment or do we use the same user-based license to develop the app?

Thank you.

Sonam

[mdevaney]

@sonam-tobgay 

You can use the same User based license to develop the app.  There is not any special license for developers 🙂

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[v-yutliu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @sonam-tobgay ,

Powerapps only supports these licenses:

office365

dynamics365

community plan

powerapps standalone plan( per user plan, per app plan)

Since you need to use CDS, so you need to choose from these three plans:

dynamics365

per user plan

per app plan

Based on your description, it seems like you are interested in powerapps standalone app.

Here are the differences between these two plans, you could choose based on your demands:

Per app plan $10 user/app/month	Per user plan $40 user/month
Run custom apps
Build and run custom apps	2 apps and 1 portal	Unlimited3
What’s included
Connect to your data	Use pre-built and custom connectors
	Use on-premises connectors and gateway
Store and manage data	Create and access custom entities
Use Common Data Service	50 MB database capacity4	250 MB database capacity4
	400 MB file capacity4	2 GB file capacity4
Execute workflows	Power Automate use rights (including premium connectors)5
	Asynchronous and custom real-time workflows

Here's a doc about this in details for your reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/pricing-billing-skus

Best regards,

[mdevaney]

@sonam-tobgay 
As I said above, you don't need any special developer license for PowerApps.  The PowerApp author just needs a standard PowerApps license just like any other author.  Don't get confused by all the details added in @v-yutliu-msft 's response.

The simple answer is: "just buy your developers the same license as users".

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