Power BI (Free) vs Powwer BI Pro license difference

[TSbolla]

Our organization has 1500 employess, only limited number of users (say 10 Pro/premium) will develop/publish/share power BI reports/dashboards to rest of organization (14990).

Does those 14990 O365 (mostly E3 license) users need Pro/Premium license?
After going through link below my understanding is that 14990 O365 users don't need pro/premium license, they fall under Power BI (Free) users. Is my understanding wrong?

Who will be Power Bi (Free)  users within O365 ?

URL (Free vs Pro): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-free-vs-pro

Any help is greatly appreciated

[chethan]

@TSbolla to share the report it's not mandatory to have a pro license 

But there is a 2 different way to share the reports

1 -  Share the reports Using Publish to SharePoint as your organization already using E3 license 

2 - Sharing reports & dashboards by using Power BI Embedded service

Regards,

Chetan K

[TSbolla]

Chetan,

Say a user with Power BI Pro license publish a dashboard to SharePoint (E3 license), Does users visiting that dashboard in SharePoint need any license?

My understadning is that those SharePoint users will fall under Power BI (Free) license.

Please advice

[Greg_Deckler]

Sharing requires a Pro license and you need a Pro license to view a shared dashboard. Premium gets around this through the use of Apps but sharing always requires Pro now.

[TSbolla]

Smoupre,

Within O365 E3 there is Power BI (Free) , Is this not to view shared dashboard/report ?

What features does Power BI (Free) provide?   

[chethan]

@TSbolla you can't share the dashboard, you can only share the report. 

however, SharePoint doesn't require any license for power bi to visiting

Regards,

Chetan K

[Greg_Deckler]

This really depends on what those other employees (is it 15,000 total or 1,500 total?) will be doing with Power BI. Most likely, you will want one or more Premium instances or Power BI otherwise if your Pro users publish something, the Free users will not be able to interact with the dashboards and reports. Another way to go would be to use Power BI Report Server on premises. See a couple of my articles here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-bi-licensing-pictures-greg-deckler-microsoft-mvp-

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-bi-tableau-licensing-deconstructed-compared-greg