What are the different licenses for Microsoft Power BI ?
Licensing with Microsoft Power Bi is easy as there is only a few licenses possible, a « starting » license and a license with more advanced functionality that exist either per user or per allocated capacity.
License Power BI Pro:
It is a license per user per month which is include in Microsoft 365 ES that you can also buy directly for 8.40€/user/month.
- Create Power BI workspace
- Discover and interact with datasets, dashboards and reports of other Power BI Pro user.
- Share datasets, dashboards and reports with other Power BI Pro user
- Work and collaborate sur Power BI inside Microsoft Teams
- Access to the augmented and intelligent analytics capacities
License Power BI Premium per utilisateur:
It is also a license per user per month but the package includes more features not available in the pro
- Create Power BI workspace
- Discover and interact with datasets, dashboards and reports of other Power BI Pro user.
- Share datasets, dashboards and reports with other Power BI Pro user
- Work and collaborate sur Power BI inside Microsoft Teams
- Access to the augmented and intelligent analytics capacities
- Quicken the comprehension and the use of the data thanks to AI
- Unlock self-service preparation of the dataset
- Simplify the data management and permission for corporation
- 16,90€ per user/month
License Power BI Premium per capacité:
This license functionalities are the identical to the Power BI Premium per user one but the only difference is that you won’t get charged per user but instead per used capacities. This formula is to be preferred if you are working for a large company. The starting price is 4212.30€ per month for this license type.
The differences of functionalities in details:
Collaboration and analytics
Feature |
Power BI Pro | Power BI Premium | Power BI Premium |
| Par user | Par capacity | ||
| Collaboration and analytics | |||
| Mobile app access | o | o | o |
| Publish reports to share and collaborate | o | o | |
| Paginated (RDL) reports | o | o | |
| Consume content without a per-user licence | o | ||
| On-premises reporting with Power BI Report Server | o | ||
Data prep, modelling and visualisation
Feature |
Power BI Pro | Power BI Premium | Power BI Premium |
| Per user | Per capacity | ||
| Prepare, design and visualise the data | |||
| Model size limit | 1 Go | 100 Go | 400 Go |
| Refresh rate | 8/day | 48/day | 48/day |
| Connect to more than 100 data sources | o | o | o |
| Create reports and visualisations with Power BI Desktop | o | o | o |
| Embed APIs and controls | o | o | o |
| AI visuals | o | o | o |
| Advance AI (text analysis, image detection, automated Machine Learning) | o | o | |
| XMLA endpoint read/write connectivity | o | o | |
| Dataflows (direct query, linked and computed entities, enhanced compute engine) | o | o | |
Governance and administration
Feature |
Power BI Pro | Power BI Premium | Power BI Premium |
| Per user | Per capacity | ||
| Governance and administration | |||
| Data security and encryption | o | o | o |
| Metrics for content creation, consumption and publishing | o | o | o |
| Application lifecycle management | o | o | |
| Multi-geo deployment management | o | ||
| Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) | o | ||
| Autoscale add-on avialability | o | ||
| Maximum storage | 10 GB/user | 100 TB | 100 TB |
Usefull links :
All of the information above are coming of this article:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/fr-fr/pricing/
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