Question DevOps pricing meanings

Hi @GoldenBadger159 , sure thing, happy to help!
What would you like to know?

My TLDR recommendation would be to try it out on a small project first.
Go to your Unity DevOps dashboard, select the Build Automation menu on the left side and set up your target platform (like you would in your local Unity Editor, for example: Windows Intel 64-bit)

Then, go through the Configurations steps: choose the repository and branch of your test project, choose the Unity version and the builder operating system.
If you select the standard compute choices (for example, Windows), and if you're only building 1 target platform at a time (= using 1 single concurrent machine), which builds your game in less than 200 minutes, then it's free.
And you get to test the flow, see if everything works as you want, etc.
Obviously, also make sure that there are no project errors in the console first, before launching the build process ^^


The longer explanation would be as follow:

• Machine concurrency: 1 concurrent machine is 0$ (free).
  If you want 2 or 3 concurrent machines at the same time, then it's 0.5$/machine/day.
  And if you want more than 4 concurrent machines, it's 2$/extra machine/day.
  Source: https://docs.unity.com/devops/en/manual/pricing-for-unity-devops
  
  Why is this useful?
  Most of the time, you will likely only need 1 concurrent machine to build your game.
  Like you would with your local machine, but this time, it's done on the cloud.
  Meaning that while the cloud builds your game, you can keep using your PC for your next tasks.
  It basically frees up your PC when comes the time to build.
  
  But if you were pressed by time for example, and you needed to quickly export 3-4 different target builds at the same time, then this is where it'd be useful to have 3-4 concurrent build machines. You wouldn't have to wait for your 1 build machine to have done the Windows build, before doing the next target platforms on your list.
  But this does come at a small fee, as described above.
  
  The other benefit is that if you want to build on a platform that you don't have, then you don't need to buy this specific machine at your home/office, before building locally with your own hardware.
  You can simply select it from the build target screen in the Build Automation screen of your Unity Devops Dashboard.

• Build Minutes
  This one is pretty straightforward: it's calculated by how much time it takes to build your game on the cloud. The pricing is 0.02$/build minute on Windows and 0.07$/build minute on Mac.
  
  As a reminder, you get 200 Windows Build minutes included for free (each month) if you'd like to try it out.
  Source: https://docs.unity.com/devops/en/manual/pricing-for-unity-devops and https://unity.com/products/unity-devops#pricing

Let us know if that helped and don't hesitate if you have more questions

 

@RealFireStarter, no this pricing only affects users of Unity DevOps, which is a cloud-based build and release platform http://unity.com/products/unity-devops

 

Hey @wkhalaid,

The build minutes cost is only relevant for any builds that are performed in Unity DevOps, which is a cloud-based automated build platform, designed to help you build your project at scale and help you collaborate with other members of your team. We charge per minute in the same way that any other cloud hardware provider does.

It is unrelated to how long you spend working on a game or how long players play the game for. If you do not use the Unity DevOps platform then you will not be charged.