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Power BI Embedded Pricing - Am i mistaken?
Microsoft EmployeeThanks for your feedback.
The Power BI workspace collections which is charged by sessions is being deprecated. It will continue working for a limited time, after which all users will be required to migrate to the new system to continue enjoying the full-suite of Power BI Embedded features. At this moment you can still use Power BI workspace collections.
As to the new Power BI Embedded, which is charged at least $750 monthly(A1 tier), you can pause the the capacity for cost saving. You won't be charged if the capacity is paused. The product team is working on the correlated APIs so that it will be possible to start/pause the capacity in a programmatically way. Then you'll be able to pause the capacity automatically in off-work hours.
As per your message, i understand that once you have API for Pause, Power BI Embedded's replacement which is Power BI Premium shall be lesser than $750/ month. However, the pricing website for Power BI Premium shows a minimum of $5195 per month when pricing 100 users is checked for.
Can you please explain the low priced option as an ISV to leverage Power BI embedded features for a 100 User group ??
If you are embedding only in another application, you can use an A SKU, but anyone internal using it, needs a pro license. We are using this model for our customers and we are a fortune 200 company last time I checked. P SKU is 5K a month.
I would say in the ISV model your option is A sku for ~$750 a month that gives you 3 GB RAM is all. We had to go to A3 to get any kind of performance $3K/mo, not to mention if you use cubes, and use AAS, we had to rack that up to an S3 otherwise we ran out of memory processing cubes. And the cubes are not big. GB's, but less than 10. You can pause A SKU's and you can do this through Azure portal yourself anytime. P sku's you have to be a global admin to do it and it's a yearly committment which A SKU is pay as you go.