Power BI Embedded With Service Principal

Hi Anonymous ,

Please note that:

1. Service principal can embed Power BI content into an application using an app-only token. It also allows you to generate embed tokens that provide access to your application's Power BI dashboards and reports.
2. While embedding requires the Power BI service, your customers do not need to have a Power BI account to view your application's embedded content.
3. Service principal only works with new workspaces. Dedicated capacity is required when moving to production.
4. Embed for your organization applications can't use service principal.
5. With A SKUs, you can't access Power BI content with a FREE Power BI license.

In conculsion, if you just embeded reports customer application, you don't need to have a Power BI Pro license; if you want to move it to procution and visit power bi content with A SKU, you need to have a Power BI Pro license.

Here are the documents and tutorial about power bi embeded that you can refer in details:

1. Embedded analytics with Power BI 
2. Tutorial: Embed Power BI content into an application for your customers 
3. Capacity and SKUs in Power BI embedded analytics 

Best Regards,
Yingjie Li

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You don't need a license for every user accessing it.   I assume you are embedding with app owns data approach.

If you do that, you can embed in your app, but you manage the access to the reports through your own authorization.

A1 is really small,  so unless you are doing very small testing and don't refresh larger datasets it may not serve your purposes.  Make sure you do some capacity planning based on usage and then pick a capacity to ensure your reports will render and the datasets will load based on the memory and CPU available.