Cost of Power BI

[tprasad1]

Hello!

I am planning to use Power BI Desktop for creating visualizations and then publish my reports to web through a url embedded on a website where users can publicly access the report without any registration with Power BI. Can any one please guide through the pricing conditions of Power BI? Also, do I need to install Power BI Pro for this purpose or Power BI Desktop will suffice? I am not sure how the pricing works.

Thanks in advance!

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@tprasad1 If you are referring to Power BI Embedded then from the Power BI side of things you don't need any license, you are just using the Desktop for report generation, and the Azure service/workspace for the rest. The pricing is based on renders. And are $2.50 per 1,000 renders. And I believe the first 1,000 renders per month are free.

This site gives you the breakdown of costs during preview etc

[tprasad1]

Thank you Eno! I am referring to Power BI Service. Could you help with the cost for Power BI Service?

[Seth_C_Bauer]

@tprasad1 Well, there is no additional cost (yet) - it is still in preview. The downside to this "publish to web" feature is that there is no security around it currently...

[junior]

I've embedded a Power BI tile into SharePoint using a Power BI Service account.  Don't I have security when doing this?

[tprasad1]

Got it! Thank you for your help, Eno!