Is there a new hard size limit on non Power BI Premium Datasets?

[isajediknight]

We are seeing this message now:
"Your scheduled refresh was suspended because, at 1117 MB, the dataset is too large. To get scheduled refresh going again, either edit the dataset so that it's smaller than 1024 MB, or add it to a Power BI Premium capacity."

We've always known about the Dataset size limits of Shared Capacity, however, for the first time we are seeing a 1GB Power BI Dataset as a hard limit.  Once this limit is reached we are not able to download the .pbix from the Service making it very difficult for us to help our Analysts right size the dataset.

Was this a recent change?  If not, how long has this hard limit been in place?

[arvindsingh802]

The limit on model size for 1GB was there since I can remember Pricing & Product Comparison | Microsoft Power BI

You are getting this error now as your data in the model grew over time and now its exceding the limit of 1GB

[isajediknight]

I know why we're seeing this message.  But do you know how long this has been a hard limit?  My thinking is that we were previously able to exceed this limit and we experienced less performance but were still able to refresh the dataset.

My orgnaization has hundreds of analysts using Power BI and we are only now beginning to get reports of this message.  I'd like to identify the Power BI Service change that made this a hard limit.

[arvindsingh802]

I haven't heard any update from Microsoft about this
would suggest to raise request Support | Microsoft Power BI to have clear answer

[isajediknight · Accepted solution]

The feedback from the support was this has been in place for a while.  They sent me some additional documentation on it.

There might be a future feature which will show you the dataset size so you can track datasets as they approach 1 GB:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2021wave2/power-bi/planned-features

[isajediknight]

I've logged a Support Case.