Premium BI Premium per user vs Pro Workspace

Here’s how licensing and semantic model publishing works in Power BI:

• Pro license: With Pro, you can create and publish content to workspaces, but you cannot combine semantic models into a single unified model. Pro is mainly for individual creators and small teams.
• Premium license: Premium gives you access to advanced features like large semantic models, composite models, and the ability to combine multiple datasets into one. You can build and host the combined semantic model in a Premium workspace.
• Publishing to a Pro workspace: If you create and combine semantic models in a Premium workspace, you can publish dashboards and reports there. However, if you then move that combined semantic model into a Pro workspace, the advanced Premium-only features won’t run - they require Premium capacity. Your viewers in the Pro workspace would not be able to use those combined models unless they also have access to Premium capacity.
• Viewer access: Viewers with only Pro licenses can see dashboards published in a Pro workspace, but they cannot consume Premium-only features unless the workspace is backed by Premium capacity. If your goal is to let viewers access the combined semantic model dashboards, you’ll need to keep them in a Premium workspace or assign Premium capacity to your workspace.

   

• In short: You can combine semantic models with a Premium license, but if you publish them into a Pro workspace, your viewers won’t be able to use those Premium-only features. To make the dashboards accessible, you should publish them in a Premium workspace or assign Premium capacity to your workspace.