Power BI pricing

Analytics for every organization

Do you need self-service BI?

Choose Power BI Pro

  • Self-service and modern BI in the cloud
  • Collaboration, publishing, sharing, and ad hoc analysis
  • Fully managed by Microsoft

Power BI Pro

$9.99

Monthly price per user with annual subscription

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Do you need advanced analytics, big data support, and on-premises and cloud reporting?

Add Power BI Premium

  • Enterprise BI, big data analytics, cloud and on-premises reporting
  • Advanced administration and deployment controls
  • Dedicated cloud compute and storage resources
  • Allow any user to consume Power BI content

Power BI Premium

$4,995

Monthly price per dedicated cloud compute and storage resource with annual subscription

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Choose the right Power BI option for your needs

Content creation

Use the free Power BI Desktop tool to author reports and prepare, model, and create data visualizations.

Content publication

Collaborate with colleagues, model data, author content, share dashboards, publish reports, and perform ad hoc analysis with a Power BI Pro license.

Content consumption

Read and interact with pre-published dashboards and reports with either a per-user Power BI Pro license or a Power BI Premium license for large-scale databases.

 

Power BI features comparison

Use the table below to help determine which collaboration, publishing, and consumption option is best for your organization.

 
Power BI Pro
Power BI Premium
Licensing differences
Included with Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise E5
Licensed per user
Licensed by dedicated cloud compute and storage resources
Deployment and administration
On-premises reporting through Power BI Report Server
Compute processing environment
Shared
Dedicated
Deploy Power BI content to multiple regions
Incremental data refresh
Publish reports to be shared
Widespread distribution of content without requiring a Power BI Pro license for content consumers
Publish and consume paginated reports in Power BI All content publishers require a Power BI Pro license
Allocate compute resources
Monitor performance of dedicated compute and memory resources
Maximum size of individual data set
1 G
10 G
Maximum storage
10 G per user
100 TB
Maximum number of automatic refreshes per day
8
48
Store Power BI data to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a set of capabilities dedicated to big data analytics
Deployment, administration, compliance, and security
Cloud service
Select a chosen home region data center for your data processing environment
Monitor content creation, consumption, and publishing with user metrics
Data security and encryption
Meets industry, global, regional, and government certifications
Available in Microsoft national clouds
Data prep, modeling, and data visualization creation Create content through Power BI Desktop, which is a free download to your PC
AI-powered data modeling using AutoML, Cognitive Services, and Azure Machine Learning
Creation of data visualizations, reports, and dashboards
Standard and big data prep and ETL
Access to a library of Power BI visuals and the custom visual SDK
Access to data connectors for cloud and on-premises data sources
Out-of-the-box visualizations, themes, and personalization options
Content consumption Content consumers can be inside or outside your organization
Paginated reports provide fixed-layout documents optimized for printing and archiving
Analyze data in Microsoft Excel
Embed content in other interfaces like Teams, SharePoint, or other SaaS applications
View and interact with Power BI content
View and interact with Power BI content through the Power BI mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows
Simply ask your data a question to get an answer. Choose to personalize definitions so Power BI understands your unique business language including acronyms and lingo
Subscribe to reports for notifications about changes
View Power BI content in other interfaces For organizations building applications or external portals, Power BI Embedded starts at $1/hour through Azure.
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Prices shown may be slightly higher than actual list price.

Prices shown are per user, per month and require annual subscription. Monthly subscriptions are also available. Pricing will vary.

US pricing shown in USD for Commercial ERP through the Microsoft Online Subscription Program.

Academic, government, and nonprofit pricing available. Learn more.

Contact Microsoft to learn more about volume licensing.

A Power BI Pro license is required to:

  • Distribute content to other users, and for peer-to-peer sharing and collaboration.
  • Publish content to Power BI Premium.
  • Receive content from other users unless the user is associated with dedicated capacity in Power BI Premium.
  • Publish content to Power BI Report Server.

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