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Is there a power bi reader?
I guess you are publishing your report in powerbi service, for external clients, you can add them to workspace as member. They will need powerbi pro license, here is more information:
Hi all,
I'm wondering if Power BI has something like Tableau Reader. There's something like this?
Regards
J.
Sadly, no. There is no free way to share read-only Power BI content similar to the free Tableau Reader. There used to be, until last year when Microsoft changed their licensing to require a Power BI Pro license (or Power BI Premium, which is an entirely different pricing model and very expensive for small-mid sized business) for anyone sharing OR viewing shared Power BI content.
Many people suggested at the time that Microsoft offer a low-cost or free type of license for people who are just viewing Power BI content and not creating. We have many users who fall into the view only category, but we have to buy them the same Power BI Pro license that we buy for the content creators.
You can save a .PBIX file to a shared location and let anyone with Power BI Desktop installed open it, but that means everyone can also modify the file (which is probably not what you want).
