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IanBradley's avatar
IanBradley
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

PowerBI Desktop for Report Server - Cost?

Is there a cost associated with PowerBI Desktop for Report Server?   I'd heard $10 USD/month/user.  If so, how is this administered? Or, is the only cost associated with SQL Server Enterprise 2016 (and the related SSRS 2016 and PBIRS)

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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    Community Champion
    8 years ago

    So, if you own SQL Server Enterprise 2016 with SA then you own Power BI Report Server, or if you have an Power BI Premium instance, you get a license for Report Server. However, in all cases, people that publish reports require a Power BI Pro license at $10/month/user.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      8 years ago
      HI Greg_Deckler,

       

      Could you just confirm this bit of your answer please :

      " However, in all cases, people that publish reports require a Power BI Pro license at $10/month/user."


      Are you saying that if organisations use the PBI Desktop for RS to create PBI reports, and they upload these (PBIX files) to the On-Prem PBI RS server, which is covered by an active SQL Server 2017 Enterprose Lic with Software Assurance, they still need to purcahse a Cloud Power BI Pro lic even though they are not going anywhere near the Cloud service? (Or ever intend to due to data goverance rules)

       

      This is not my understanding, and I would be grateful if you could point me to the relivant MS documentation that says this is the case.  I'm looking at the SQL Server 2017 Licensing Datasheet and it says that PBI RS is a "valuable benefit" of Enterprise Software Assurance, but says nothing about needing PBI Pro subcriptions to use it?

       

      Thanks for your help.

       

      Kind Regards

      Rob

       

       

      • Greg_Deckler's avatar
        Greg_Deckler
        Community Champion
        8 years ago

        Anonymous- See this url: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlrsteamblog/2017/05/17/a-closer-look-at-power-bi-report-server/

         

        Specifically:

         

        When you buy Power BI Premium, your subscription includes capacity in the cloud for the Power BI service as well as a license to run Power BI Report Server in your own on-premises capacity. If you buy Power BI Premium P1, for example, you get eight virtual cores (“v-Cores”) of capacity in the cloud, plus a license to run Power BI Report Server on up to eight processor cores on-premises.

         

        Alternatively, if you have SQL Server Enterprise with active Software Assurance, you can use your Enterprise per-core licenses to run Power BI Report Server on-premises. (They don’t give you any capacity in the cloud, though.)

         

        Either way you license Power BI Report Server, “publisher” users who publish Power BI reports to the report server for others to access need Power BI Pro licenses, whereas “reader” users who merely view reports don’t need any per-user licenses.