Extended Services Update

[LeafGreen888]

Key Takeaways

The Extended Services update expands Luau services available to plugins and command bar scripts. This allows for deeper automation and better tool creation by granting access to more engine capabilities.

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[Update] June 30, 2026

@LeafGreen888

Roblox Extended Services is now available to even more creators globally!

For those pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on the platform, Extended Services provides the option to purchase and obtain additional service usage—such as Data Stores and Compute—beyond the standard platform limits.

Starting today, we have expanded country eligibility to include creators based in the following locations:

• United Kingdom
• Canada
• South Korea
• Kazakhstan
• Malaysia
• Georgia
• Peru
• Chile

To check if you’re eligible to use Extended Services, please visit the Extended Services Eligibility page. As a reminder, eligibility for Extended Services is based on the owner’s country (either the Account or Group owner). If you transfer ownership of an experience, a country eligibility check will be required.

Please note that payment and invoicing for Extended Services remain in USD, and user access to your experiences will remain completely unchanged.

We are continuously working to bring Extended Services to more regions to give you the flexibility to scale your experiences. We will share further updates as we continue to expand.

Thank you for your continued feedback, and we can’t wait to see what you build next!

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Hello Creators,

We have a number of exciting updates for you around Extended Services — an option for those with very large experiences who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on the platform to purchase and obtain additional service usage beyond the platform limit.

We want to start by sharing some community wins. First off, more than 2.2M creators have used Data Stores Manager since launch. Thank you for your enthusiasm for this product. We are committed to continuously improving it with new features and use case enablement. Second, by identifying stale data with the Data Stores Manager, the community has cleaned up 207.5 TB+ of data - this is resourcing that goes straight back into the community!

Data Stores Storage & Access

Back in April, we announced plans for new Data Stores Access and Storage limits. These new limits will start in April, 2026. As mentioned prior, very few experiences are forecasted to hit this limit; out of 55 million experiences, less than 30 would hit the limit if it was active today.

To help you understand if you are approaching the new storage limits, today, we are launching Data Stores Storage notifications that will warn you at the 60%, 80%, 90%, and 100% consumption thresholds. Once consumption surpasses 100%, you will be able to see estimated costs in the Data Stores Manager. The notifications are automatically enabled and do not require Extended Services to be active.

Today, we are also launching the ability to delete data as well as revert in Data Stores Manager (documentation here). Additionally, you may process your data at scale with the Data Stores Batch Processor (announced earlier here).

Lastly, Extended Services for Data Stores Access & Storage will be coming early next year before the new limits activate in April 2026. Pricing details can be found here.

So, what should you do?

1. If you are receiving high-usage notifications (e.g. 80%, 90% or 100%), please review the Data Stores Storage Optimization guide to learn best practices on how to reduce your usage. You will also have an opportunity early next year to enable Extended Services for Data Stores.
2. Otherwise, keep tabs on your Data Stores Access & Storage consumption with the Observability dashboard.

Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text

We launched the full release of Text-to-Speech in October and the Speech-to-Text Beta earlier this month, expanding Roblox’s natural language capabilities for creators. To help you monitor your usage of these APIs, we’ve since released observability dashboards for Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Extended Services now supports Text-to-Speech, allowing you to purchase additional usage per minute beyond the existing free limit. Pricing details can be found here. We plan to enable Extended Services support for Speech-to-Text early next year, giving you the same flexibility to scale your voice experiences.

HttpService

HttpService Observability dashboard to help you monitor your HTTP request traffic volume is coming soon in later this month - we will share further information shortly.

Extended Services Country Eligibility

Extended Services has expanded country eligibility to include creators in Italy, Spain, Singapore, Netherlands, and others (view full list here). Eligibility is based on the owner’s country (Account or Group owner), and transferring ownership requires a country eligibility check. Payment and invoicing are in USD. User access to experiences will remain as is.

We are excited to see how the community continues to build and use these new solutions. Please share any feedback - in particular, with details on your existing use cases.

Thank you,
Creator team

[Diangamertv (PhoenixTheDev)]

Will right to erasure requests finally be easy with this batch request??

[WinterStorm_Meow (Winter)]

@LeafGreen888

the community has cleaned up 207.5 TB+ of data - this is resourcing that goes straight back into the community!

Imagine if we could delete images or animations but it takes 30 days to delete. I just archive the old version of the decals because I can’t just delete the images or overwrite them. I do have some animations that I would delete if I could.

Edit: I changed my wording because I said image instead of decals and can’t archive images

[AdiCraft01]

Wow 207.5 tb?!? that’s a lot i thought it would be smaller

[AdiCraft01]

Huh? you can archive images? i didn’t know that i mean there is no button to archive images you can only delete them from the inventory but they would stay uploaded

[WinterStorm_Meow (Winter)]

Oh yeah, I mean decals. But it would be nice if both the decal and the associated image would be deleted when they add a delete button but all we have is a archive just for decals.

[Scopetag]

How does one go back to viewing all Data Stores? There seems to be no “Back” button at all.

[AdiCraft01]

Oh, decals i thought images but alright anyways thanks for telling me about archiving decals

[ahrielia]

you can click on the browser back button

[Scopetag]

For sake of UX it should navigate back to the list when clicking on “Data Stores Manager”.

[RuizuKun_Dev (Kitsune)]

@RuizuKun_Dev

This is great, I think it makes sense for us to have the option to pay for more

Can we please have the option to pay for Audio upload limit increase? This would make a significant impact to us Developers

@LeafGreen888

[Tomi1231 (Chilly28)]

It’s actually really not a lot. You can find like 20TB (enterprise) hard drives on amazon, for less than 600 usd

Multiply by 10, and that is 6k usd for 200TB. In the context of a company like roblox, this is not a lot

Now this doesn’t take into account redundancy, or bulk purchase price, this is just meant as an exercise to interpret that number

[ldkWhatUserToPickk (Someone)]

FINALLYYY extended services available for Europe

[MineCraftWolfFan1337 (thegarnetenthusiast)]

I only know how to archive images after the copyright gods struck me down. Before anyone takes this out of context, I did deserve the takedown, tbh just don’t put luigi in your game.

[MightyDantheman (Fate)]

This DataStore cap is still rather upsetting. It has been stated before that less than 1% of experiences would be affected by this. By that logic, there would then be no need to introduce a cap.

This data cap essentially kills any large-scale UGC world, such as voxel survival games similar to that of Minecraft. I’ve explained many times how awful this is:

@MightyDantheman

Regarding DataStore Caps:

As I’ve said in other related posts, the new data cap won’t harm 99% of games. This, however, will directly harm any form of large scale UCG-type game, such as Minecraft. I’ve done the math and have already considered all of the optimizations that I can, and the data limits then become awful.

Let’s go with Minecraft’s old chunk size of 16x256x16. That’s 65,536 blocks per chunk. I had come to the conclusion that a basic block would be about 5 bytes, so that makes a single chunk a total of 327,680 bytes. This isn’t even including things like mobs, inventories, or other special types of blocks, items, or containers. With the new system, each player will add an increase of 1 MB to the total cap, which essentially means that each player only gets 1 MB (obviously not every player will actually use all of their data, but this is not the kind of game that you want to take those risks in). So that’s about 3 full chunks that a player can save. I should also mention that this isn’t including other data, such as chunk versions, chunk timestamps, which chunks have been loaded but haven’t been modified, etc.

Obviously, there are some things you can do to improve this, such as reducing the chunk height, but now that’s nerfing what was previously capable. Another thing is that players will almost never modify every single block in a given chunk anyway, and, because the world loads from a seed, you don’t need to save anything other than changes. However, that creates a different issue. Do you allow players to claim whole chunks at once, or do you only save blocks they change in random chunks? If doing the latter, the player will eventually run out of data randomly and the only thing they can do about it is undo any of their modifications to the world, which they’d be lucky to find, just think about all of the random mining or explosions that could’ve happened over time. Yes, there’s also greedy meshing (and whatever the data compression version of that would be called), but that also has its limits.

The only way this can be expanded on is with what’s basically a subscription that’s also only in USD, as far as I’m aware. I’ve considered other hacky solutions, like allowing players to donate chunks to other players, but this borders on exploiting the system, as this would indirectly encourage players to create alts to donate chunks to their main account. There’s also plenty of ways that I can nerf the game, such as making chunks far smaller, undoing block changes under certain conditions (perhaps by time, under a certain Y level for things like mining, in other dimensions, etc), and so on. But worsening the quality of the gameplay experience should not be what I have to do to make it work on Roblox.

The only path I see, for a minimally compromised project, is to allow players to pay for subscriptions themselves, which would cover the cost of their world (of a limited size) and support multiplayer better. I’d likely have a system where they can control where they want their money to go with said subscription, such as increasing/decreasing world size, which would control how much they’d have to pay each month. But subscriptions suck and they can’t even play singleplayer without either having a very limited experience or paying for a subscription.

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It also hasn’t been addressed that the data cap increases by 1 MB per new player, when a DataStore is 4 MB max. Why is it not 4 MB per player? Not that this would solve my issue.

My project that I’ve worked on, off and on, for years, is now essentially dead in the water, unless I severally reduce the scope of the project and/or sell a subscription to users just to play the game as I had intended it. It might be okay if it were a one-time payment for an increase in storage, but a subscription to play a game is not a good model.

Is this the only solution that we have come to?

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I understand that this is technically an ongoing cost for Roblox, but don’t forget that Roblox still takes about an 80% cut.

This is the cost:

$0.12 / GB per Month

https://create.roblox.com/docs/en-us/cloud-services/extended-services#service-pricing

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Let’s say that we are to go through with this and I offload the cost to my players. I’d have to create a system to automatically handle data deletion if they don’t keep up with their subscription. If I don’t want to take any cost onto myself, I wouldn’t even be able to offer a forgiveness period. There currently doesn’t seem to be a way to automate this process. I can’t set the exact amount that they’d need to pay with a subscription. I can’t have the subscription they pay go directly to that, I’d still have to pay it directly, after I get paid. A Robux solution complicates things, but still has the same problems anyway, it’s just easier to get closer to the price. Why is there not a Robux payment solution for extended services? This is a whole mess just to make my game playable without severally harming the intended gameplay. Why do I have to qualify for extended services? Why is it USD only? So many things just don’t seem to add up. I don’t want to have to be an indefinite accountant for as long as the game is alive.

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As a separate solution, I’d also be open for local data storage. I believe I briefly touched upon that in the quoted summary. I am aware of the risk of user-stored and controlled data, and its limitations are clear, but this would almost perfectly solve the issue at hand. Prompt the player for local storage space while showing the amount desired to be reserved. Further prompts could be given if needed. The player could also remove the data themselves, if they so choose, as could the server.

[Foxyger123 (DripAstolfo)]

It makes no sense to add this Data Store limit especialy when barly any will get effect. Rather this will limit the scope devs can make games with. This is really just not good.

[andourys (andy)]

Extended Services for HTTPService when? Would love to have more than 500reqs/minute

[LeafGreen888]

Thank you for your request!

Extended Services is currently developing new services and products and your feedback helps us identify future improvements.

We are not yet able to share all the details, but we will publish updates here as soon as they are ready. Please check back for more information.

[LeafGreen888]

Thank you, we will take this feedback for design considerations