Power BI pricing

Analytics for every organisation

Power BI in Microsoft Fabric free account

 

Free

Create rich, interactive reports that put visual analytics at your fingertips using Power BI, included in your free account for Microsoft Fabric Preview.

  • No credit card required.
  • Upgrade to Power BI Pro or Power BI Premium to share reports.

Power BI Pro

Per user

 

$15

Per user/month

License individual users with modern, self-service analytics for publishing reports and dashboards and viewing content across your organisation.

  • Publish and share Power BI reports.
  • Power BI Pro is included in Microsoft 365 E5.
  • Available to buy now with a credit card.1

Power BI Premium

Per user

 

$29.90

Per user/month 2

License individual users with access to larger model sizes, more frequent refreshes, XMLA read/write, deployment pipelines, and other enterprise-scale features.

  • Includes all the features available with Power BI Pro.
  • See additional Power BI Premium features.
  • Available to buy now with a credit card.1

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI Premium per capacity SKUs

From

$7,475.30

Per month for P1 SKU

License your organisation for access to Microsoft Fabric in a unified product experience that uses the same compute capacity and storage.3

  • Includes all the features available in Power BI Premium per user.
  • Gain access to the rest of Microsoft Fabric workloads through a unified product experience and capacity.
  • Use Autoscale to respond to occasional, unplanned overage spikes in capacity by automatically adding one vCore at a time per 24-hour period. The price of autoscale is $85 per vCore/24hours.4

Microsoft Fabric

Fabric Capacity Reservation SKUs

Fabric Capacity pay-as-you-go SKUs

 

Varies

License your organisation for access to Microsoft Fabric in a unified product experience that uses the same compute capacity and storage.3

  • Smaller entry-level compute starting at F2.
  • Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) eligible.
  • Gain access to full Microsoft Fabric workloads through a unified product experience and capacity.

Fabric Capacity pay-as-you-go SKUs

 

Varies

License your organisation for access to Microsoft Fabric in a unified product experience that uses the same compute capacity and storage.3

  • Small entry-level compute starting at F2.
  • Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) eligible.
  • Gain access to full Microsoft Fabric workloads through a unified product experience and capacity.
  • Enjoy pay-as-you-go pricing, which you can scale up or down dynamically and even pause with no usage commitment.

Prices shown are for marketing purposes only and may not be reflective of actual list price due to currency, country, and regional variant factors. Your actual price will be reflected at checkout. All offers are subject to product service limits. Learn more. Contact a Microsoft representative to learn more about enterprise pricing and offers.

Academic, government, and nonprofit pricing are available.

Power BI is available in China operated by 21Vianet.

1 Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium per user subscriptions are available for self-service purchase, as well as through the Microsoft 365 admin centre. Purchasing Microsoft Fabric requires access to the Microsoft 365 admin centre. Learn more about available Power BI purchasing and licensing options.

2 A $10 per user/month add-on is available for users with Power BI Pro and Microsoft 365 E5 licences to step up to Power BI Premium per user. Learn more about purchasing Power BI Premium per user.

3 Power BI Pro licence is required for all Power BI Premium (“P”) and Fabric Capacity (“F”) SKUs to publish Power BI content to Microsoft Fabric. Enabling content consumers to review and interact with Power BI reports without additional paid per-user licences is available at P1 and above (and F64 and above).

4 Autoscale is an optional add-on that requires Power BI Premium per capacity (Gen2) and Azure subscriptions. Limits can be preset with autoscale to control costs, such as thresholds on vCore scaling or total subscription charges.

More ways to use Power BI

Microsoft 365 E5

Access Power BI Pro through Microsoft 365 E5, which combines best-in-class productivity apps with advanced security, compliance, voice, and analytical capabilities.

Power BI Desktop

Use the free Power BI Desktop app to connect to, model, and visualise your data with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop canvas and hundreds of intuitive, interactive visuals.

Power BI Mobile

Securely access and view live Power BI dashboards and reports on any device with native mobile BI apps for Windows, iOS, and Android.

Power BI Embedded

Create customer-facing reports, dashboards, and analytics in your own applications by branding Power BI as your own. Reduce developer resources by automating the monitoring, management, and deployment of analytics.

Explore Power BI plans

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Feature 5 Power BI in Microsoft Fabric free account
Power BI Pro
Power BI Premium
per user
Power BI Premium per capacity (includes Microsoft Fabric)
Create reports with Power BI Desktop6

Included

Included

Included

Included

Publish Power BI reports to share and collaborate  

Included

Included

 
Advanced AI, dataflows, datamarts, and XMLA endpoint read/write    

Included

Included

All users can consume Power BI content without a paid per-user licence7      

Included

Access to all the Microsoft Fabric workloads, including Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Science, Real-Time Analytics, and Data Activator      

Included

Model memory size limit8   1 GB 100 GB 400 GB
Refresh rate for Power BI datasets   8/day 48/day 48/day
Maximum storage (Power BI native storage)9   10 GB/user 100 TB 100TB
Data security and encryption

Included

Included

Included

Included

OneLake storage, OneLake BCDR storage, OneLake cache, and networking10      

Included

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Power BI in Microsoft Fabric free account
Power BI Pro
Power BI Premium
per user
Power BI Premium per capacity (includes Microsoft Fabric)
Create reports with Power BI Desktop6

Included

Included

Included

Included

Publish Power BI reports to share and collaborate
 

Included

Included

 
Advanced AI, dataflows, datamarts, and XMLA endpoint read/write
   

Included

Included

All users can consume Power BI content without a paid per-user licence7
     

Included

Access to all the Microsoft Fabric workloads, including Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Science, Real-Time Analytics, and Data Activator
     

Included

Model memory size limit8
  1 GB 100 GB 400 GB
Refresh rate for Power BI datasets
  8/day 48/day 48/day
Maximum storage (Power BI native storage)9
  10 GB/user 100 TB 100TB
Data security and encryption

Included

Included

Included

Included

OneLake storage, OneLake BCDR storage, OneLake cache, and networking10
     

Included

5 Representative of features available in general availability (GA) status.

6 Power BI Desktop is the data exploration and report authoring experience for Power BI, and it is available as a free download.

7 Power BI report consumption without paid per-user licences applies to Fabric SKUs F64 and above, and Power BI Premium per capacity SKUs P1 and above.

8 See the Power BI model memory size limit capacity and SKUs.

9 For storing Power BI data sets only

10 For a limited time, Power BI Premium per capacity customers will be able to use OneLake storage, OneLake cache, OneLake BCDR storage, and networking without an Azure subscription. Eventually, an Azure subscription will be required, and the standard prices apply. For more information on pricing, visit Fabric pricing page.

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