Developer environments
If you don't already have a Power Platform subscription, the simplest way to get access to a Power Platform environment is to sign up for the Power Apps Developer plan. You can explore Power Platform at full potential for learning at no cost.
The Power Apps Developer Plan gives you a free development environment to build and test with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Microsoft Dataverse. The Developer plan enables you to:
- Create apps and flows without writing code, with full-featured Power Apps and Power Automate development tools.
- Connect to any data source by using Power Platform connectors.
- Use a fully managed, scalable data platform with Dataverse, including support for common business application actions. Use out-of-the-box common tables or build your own data schema.
- Export the solutions you create in your developer environment.
Who can sign up for the Power Apps Developer Plan?
Anyone with a work or school email address backed by Microsoft Entra ID can sign up for the Power Apps Developer Plan.
For more information about the Developer Plan, see About the Power Apps Developer Plan.
Manage Developer environments
After you have a developer plan license assigned to your user, you can create Developer environments in your Microsoft Entra ID tenant.
A developer environment:
- Doesn't require a paid license.
- Permits you to explore Power Platform capabilities.
- Includes Microsoft Dataverse.
- Doesn't consume the tenant's capacity.
- Has a maximum Database size of 2 Gb.
- Can be a managed environment.
- Must not be used for production purposes.
Each user can have up to three Developer environments.
A Power Platform admin can create Developer environments for other users and can restrict users from creating their own Developer environments.