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beaconfbb
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5 years ago
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Power BI Licensing

Hi All, This is my first post in this forum. Please excuse me if i missed any rules. We are trying to get power bi for our reporting purposes. We are on Office 365. My questions. 1) Does Power BI S...
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  • timg's avatar
    timg
    5 years ago

    Hi beaconfbb,

    Below you'll find some clarification on your questions:

    1. Power BI Free licences are free for all users regardless of office 365 subscriptions. Power BI Pro licences are included in the Office 365 E5 licence, not in other licences
    2. The cost of one Power BI pro licence is 9.99 dollar. 
    3. within Power BI there are only Free and Pro licences, no developer licences. all users who you will be sharing reports with will require a Pro licence (The rule of thumb is that you can use a free licence to develop all your content, but when you want to share that content with other users you will require a pro licence). If 800+ users will require access it might also be worth looking into Power BI premium, this is an alternative to a Pro licence where you do not need to buy a licence per user

    More details can be found at: Pricing & Product Comparison | Microsoft Power BI

    Best regards,

    Tim

  • aj1973's avatar
    aj1973
    5 years ago

    beaconfbb 

    You are welcome,

    Just mark this thead as a solution for the rest of the community Please

     

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timg
Solution Sage
5 years ago

Hi beaconfbb,

Below you'll find some clarification on your questions:

  1. Power BI Free licences are free for all users regardless of office 365 subscriptions. Power BI Pro licences are included in the Office 365 E5 licence, not in other licences
  2. The cost of one Power BI pro licence is 9.99 dollar. 
  3. within Power BI there are only Free and Pro licences, no developer licences. all users who you will be sharing reports with will require a Pro licence (The rule of thumb is that you can use a free licence to develop all your content, but when you want to share that content with other users you will require a pro licence). If 800+ users will require access it might also be worth looking into Power BI premium, this is an alternative to a Pro licence where you do not need to buy a licence per user

More details can be found at: Pricing & Product Comparison | Microsoft Power BI

Best regards,

Tim

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beaconfbb
Regular Visitor
5 years ago

Thanks Tim,

That is very informative. When i meant 800 users, these users will be viewing reports. Please correct me if i am wrong. 

In Power BI you develop a report and publish it to an url and users access that url to view the report. Is that not so?

If that is the case why would we need 800 licenses if all they do is view the report ?

How to check if we have Power BI proc license and how to check get the URL where we publish the report?

Thanks