Individual developers can now publish apps in the Microsoft Store without having to pay any fees. Microsoft announced the change this week in a data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/09/10/free-developer-registration-for-individual-developers-on-microsoft-store/” data-url=”https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/09/10/free-developer-registration-for-individual-developers-on-microsoft-store/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Windows Developer blog post. The change also means that a credit card is no longer needed to publish apps in the Microsoft Store.
Microsoft, which until recently charged individual developers a one-time fee of $19, already had lower fees than other tech giants. Google has a one-time fee of $25. Apple charges individual developers $99 per year.
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