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Cheapest solution for sharing dashboards with costumers
Yes, you only can do free stuff if you have a Power BI Desktop or your own personal workspace. If you want to try and embed it for others to use you will need a premium sku.
Hi alfablac ,
You have a few options for embedding, we are an embed shop and just recently moved to Fabric capacity. But you can still purchase embed capacities if you want.
It really depends on how big of a model you are going ot use and how much compute power you need?
The cheapeast capacity for embedded is about $550 a month. If you do a reserved instance (which is sign a contract fora year) you can save some money on that. But you may not be able to do the cheapest capacity as it depends on how big your model is.
Your model needs to be half the size of the max of the capacity. IE: For the cheapest model that is 3gig. If you are doing an import that is not an incremental refresh your model needs to be 1.5 gig or less.
Power BI Embedded capacities are premium capacities.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embedded-capacity
Hey Don-Bot
What is confusing me is that I can't quite understand if Power BI Embedded is a Premium feature as much as using the Power BI Javascript SDK in a React app. MS docs say you need a PPU or Pro account only for , but "to move to production you need a capacity".
This link here especifically: Embed content in your Power BI embedded analytics application - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Reading the requirements it feels you could even do without a Pro account at all, It's not very clear what moving to production is 😅
But, I think I've finally come to my senses that you definitely need a Premium workspace to embed a report in a page accessible to external users. No one I've contacted feel there's a cheaper option as well.
Yes, you only can do free stuff if you have a Power BI Desktop or your own personal workspace. If you want to try and embed it for others to use you will need a premium sku.
