Licensing

[nagarjunakan]

Hi All,

I have the following Scenario

We have 1000 users in the company, 900 of them are just report viewers view the reports. the rest 100 are developers who authors reports from various sources .

do I need 1000 Power BI Pro licence ?

Thanks In advance.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi  @nagarjunakan ,

You can go check out this Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium pricing page.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

You can make a combination like this.

1. Buy 100 Power BI Pro licenses for developers.
2. 900 viewers for Power BI Free license.
3. Then you can purchase a Power BI Premium capacity P1.

This will save you more money than buying 1000 Power BI Pro.

Power BI Premium has a feature: as long as your report is in a workspace in premium capacity, you can view the report even if you are a free user.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/enterprise/service-premium-what-is

If you already have Microsoft 365 E5, it contains a pro license and you can assign it directly.

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[azrulridzwan]

Just to understand a different scenario since im confused with the premium vs premium capacity.

Say im developing a dashboard and wanted to share with non pro license. Do i need premium only or premium capacity?

The end user only needs to view the dashboard for reporting purpose without the need to do anything fancy.

[Anonymous]

Hi @nagarjunakan ,
Please find the below link you will understand.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/end-user-features

regards,

Viswa