Power BI licensing for embedded application

[karlrez]

I have an application which will embed Power BI reports which will be used for users within an organization.

- All users need view access.

- Some users need edit access. 

Is premium capacity required?

What are the main benefits of a premium capacity over a shared capacity for the organization?

What license is required for each user?

What are the main differences between the license levels?

[v-yangliu-msft · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply from lbendlin  , please allow me to add some more information:
Hi  @karlrez ,

Is premium capacity required?

If your only purpose is to embed the Power Bi report into the application, the Embedded capacity is enough to be assigned to your workspace that all the free users can access the embedded Power Bi report, premium capacity is more useful and necessary in the non-embedded sharing scenarios

What are the main benefits of a premium capacity over a shared capacity for the organization?

The main benefits  is regarding the dataset refresh speed with the maxmium refresh duration for the large dataset scenarios. You canfurther refer to this doc link

What is Power BI Premium? - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

What license is required for each user?

If your only purpose is to embed the Power Bi report into the application, the Embedded capacity is enough to be assigned to your workspace that all the free users can access the embedded Power Bi report, so the users only need the free license

What are the main differences between the license levels?

You may need to refer to this doc

Power BI service features by license type - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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[lbendlin]

Edit access?  Surely not...

One of the advantages of Premium/Fabric capacities is that only developers need a Pro license while report consumers don't need one if the content is share the right way (via the app)

For Power BI Embedded this is a whole 'nother story though. Recommend you go through the documentation.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embedded-analytics-power-bi