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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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beaconfbb
Regular Visitor
5 years ago

Thanks Amine and Tim. What if i create a report and publish it to a workspace and share the url. It is strictly for viewing , they cannot make changes. They can download and create their own version on their desktop and use it for their individual purpose.

 

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timg
Solution Sage
5 years ago

Hi Beaconfbb,

Via Power BI service they would still require a pro licence.

You could distribute the report for example through teams or onedrive and all users would be able to open it for free on Power BI desktop, but the moment you want to share it with specific people in the organization through power BI service (even just for viewing) a Pro or enterprise licence will be required. (unless all data may be viewed by everyone outside the organization as well, then a "publish to web" code could be used as well like aj1973 mentioned. Though keep in mind that this method offers zero security.)