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May 3 announcement FAQ
dsynan The free users will need to sign up for the Pro Trail.
To answer the second question. There are now two ways they can see it. One, the end users have a Pro license/Trial (As mentioned above). Or, the person sharing the content has a premium license on top of the Pro license, then the end users will be able to see the dashboards as free users.
So, free users now need a Pro account to view shared dashboards.
Power BI Embedded is being merged with Power BI premium. The Premium capacity calculator shows that a single node starts at $4,995 per month. Is the existing Power BI Embedded pricing model, $5 per 100 sessions, going away too? Because if so, you may have just scared off a ton on small businesses.
I'm developing a dashboard to share with a handful of clients (external), up to 100 ideally. None of them need editing capabilties or data access. As of now I can share that with each of them and they can view it for free as long as they have a free Power BI account. That is good for me price wise, but a bit unprofessional it requires a Microsoft account and Microsoft login. So I'm willing to pay for embedded, becuase it might cost me $100-200/month to have the dash/reports embedded in my current website. Much more professional and the cost is manageable.
But now there are two issues I see. If I share the dash, they have to login through Microsoft and pay $10 per month. That is a no go. Even if I were willing to pay the cost for them, which I would be, there is no way for me to manage their accounts to do so and the whole thing would be very unprofessional. If the embedded pricing model changes, I'll have to pay $5k per month for premium so that I can embed my own webapp to share with a few clients. This would kill my business.
Please tell me I am misreading something or that the Power BI embedded pricing model will remain. Otherwise, there is simply no feasible, economic solution to share with a handful of external users. I'll have to find another BI service. Furthermore, in any case, the constant changes to pricing models creates great uncertainty about building a product with Power BI knowing that I, as a small business, could be quickly priced out.