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Example of cost Power BI embedded
Hi. Power Bi Embedded doesn't work by user, it's by capacity. It will charge if the capacity is resumed and it won't if it's paused. You can configure scripts over azure to pause and resume in order to reduce the costs.
You can think about a plan of days of week and hours a day that it will be turned on for any user to use it. You can't know when a person is using it to turn on or off. It's like turning on a VM to let any one use it untill you turn it off. So for example if you want to keep it on 8 hours a day during working days. Assuming 24 working days a month and 8 hours a day you will have it on for 192 hours. You can then multiply 192 x $ of the plan. In this case $2 hours would be $384 by month.
Again, it doesn't matter if it's 1 or 40 users. If the users are too many it won't cost more, it will be slow depending on the plan. 40 users is a small number you shouldn't have any trouble.
I hope that make sense
Super UserHi. Power Bi Embedded doesn't work by user, it's by capacity. It will charge if the capacity is resumed and it won't if it's paused. You can configure scripts over azure to pause and resume in order to reduce the costs.
You can think about a plan of days of week and hours a day that it will be turned on for any user to use it. You can't know when a person is using it to turn on or off. It's like turning on a VM to let any one use it untill you turn it off. So for example if you want to keep it on 8 hours a day during working days. Assuming 24 working days a month and 8 hours a day you will have it on for 192 hours. You can then multiply 192 x $ of the plan. In this case $2 hours would be $384 by month.
Again, it doesn't matter if it's 1 or 40 users. If the users are too many it won't cost more, it will be slow depending on the plan. 40 users is a small number you shouldn't have any trouble.
I hope that make sense
Hi! This is really helpful, thank you!
Just to clarify, if I were to turn it on as you suggested on workdays, but it ends up not being used, would the cost still be $384 a month?
- ibarrau
Once it's turned on. It's running the cost. Even if you are not using the capacity at all over power bi service. So if you turn it on during working days and your users are not viewing any report, then the cost is still $384.
I hope that helps,