Power Apps Community Plan: a free development environment for individual use
If you want to build skills and learn more about Power Apps, Power Automate, and the Microsoft Dataverse, the Power Apps Community Plan is the right plan for you. The Power Apps Community Plan gives you a free development environment for individual use, where you can:
- Learn to build business apps and workflows with the full functionality of Power Apps and Power Automate.
- Connect to any data source by using our 100+ out of the box connectors or by creating your own custom connectors.
- Explore how you can use the Dataverse to build powerful business apps with the common data model and the SDK.
- Export the solutions you create in your individual environment, and publish them on Microsoft AppSource so your customers can test-drive them.
Who can sign up for the Power Apps Community Plan?
Anyone with a work or school account can sign up for the Power Apps Community Plan. But we especially recommend this plan if you:
- Want to build skills and learn more about Power Apps, Power Automate, and the Dataverse.
- Are interested in building business apps and workflows to distribute on Microsoft AppSource.
Where can I sign up for the Power Apps Community Plan?
Sign up on the Power Apps Community Plan website. If you are an existing user of Power Apps with Office 365 or Dynamics 365, you can also create an environment for individual use.
After signing up for the Community Plan, you will be redirected to the Power Apps site and will land in your individual environment. The environment is named with your name, for example 'John Doe's environment'. If there is already an environment with that name, the individual environment will be named as 'John Doe's (1) environment'. The following image shows how the environment appears.
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Which features are included in the Power Apps Community Plan?
With the individual environment, you get the following functionality:
| Functionalities | Environment for individual use |
|---|---|
| Key features | |
| Create and run apps | Yes. You can create unlimited apps |
| Share apps | No(1) |
| Use the Dataverse | Yes |
| Model your data using the Dataverse | Yes |
| Enterprise-grade administration of the environment and user policies | Yes |
| Connectivity | |
| Connect to Office 365, Dynamics 365, and other connectors | Yes |
| Connect to cloud-based services like Azure SQL, Dropbox, Twitter, and many more | Yes |
| Use premium connectors like Salesforce, DB2 and many more | Yes(2) |
| Access on‐premises data using an on-premises gateway | Yes |
| Create custom connectors to connect to your own systems | Yes. You can create unlimited custom connectors |
| Common Data Service | |
| Create and run applications on the Dataverse | Yes |
| Model your data in the Dataverse | Yes |
| Create a database in the Dataverse | Yes |
| Create and use dataflows | No |
| Management(3) | |
| Add co-workers as environment makers and admins | No |
| Add co-workers to the database roles | No |
| Supports data policies established by the Office 365 administrator | Yes |
| Establish data policies for the individual environment | Yes |
(1)You can't share resources such as apps, flows, or connections with any other users from your tenant.
(2)Using premium connectors to connect to the data sources outside Power Apps will require you to have standalone plans.
(3)You can't add any other user as an environment admin or a maker, or to the database roles from the admin center.
What are the capacity limits for the individual environment?
| Capacity | Limits |
|---|---|
| Flow runs/month | 750 |
| Database size | 200 MB |
| File storage | 2GB |
You cannot apply add-ons to the quantities that we include. If you hit capacity limits, we recommend purchasing Power Apps Per User Plan. Learn more about it from the Power Apps pricing page.
Note
The capacity of the individual environment, whether or not it's used, doesn't contribute to your company's overall quota.
Publishing to Microsoft AppSource
Do you have an app you would like to share with customers? We now support Power Apps solutions on Microsoft AppSource as a way for you to share apps and flows with customers, and generate leads for your business. For more information, see Publish your app on AppSource.