Power BI Pro - Differences from Desktop

You are mixing 2 different things. Desktop is the desktop and is always free. Desktop can be paired with either Free, Pro or Premium Power BI Service. What Pro allows you to do over Free is primarily share your reports published from Desktop to the Service with others.

There are more differences but that should cover most of what you probably currently care about and clear up some confusion hopefully

Anonymous 

Hi Anonymous ,

The Power BI Desktop is an application which users can use it to get data, transform data, create data model, create reports, and then publish to cloud Power BI Service. Especially, users can transform data and create data model in Power BI Desktop, such as designing a query and loading via PowerQuery, table relationships, modeling with DAX measures, etc. Though user can also transform data in dataflow in Power BI Service. See more difference: Power BI Desktop vs Power BI Service.

While, the Power BI Pro is a kind of license, which is useful in area of share feature in Power BI Service. For example, if you want to share a report to others, you need a Power BI Pro license, also the recipient need a Power BI Pro license, or the shared content is in Premium capacity. See more :Power BI licensing in your organization.

Best Regards,

Amy 

Community Support Team _ Amy

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