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Which licensing for Power BI Gateway
Hi , Anonymous
The Enterprise Data Gateway provided by Power BI is completely free to download and use.You don't need a license.
The primary role of the Enterprise Data Gateway is to act as a bridge that allows the Power BI Service to access our on-premises data sources
Enterprise gateways are divided into standard gateways and personal gateways.
In general, we recommend using an enterprise gateway, which is more powerful and allows users to share the gateway.
The following are the main differences between the two types of gateways:
standard gateway
personal gateway
Support for multiple users
YES
NO
Support cloud services
Support PowerBI、PowerAPPs、Power Automate and so on
Only support PowerBI
In what mode
Service
Application
Whether a cluster can be created
YES
NO
Whether a key is required
YES
NO
Support for link mode
all mode
only support import mode
Whether can migrate,restore,take over gateway
YES
NO
Whether non-computer administrators can install
NO
YES
If you want to download , you can enter this:
Power BI Gateway | Microsoft Power BI
For more information, you can refer to :
On-premises data gateway - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Install an on-premises data gateway | Microsoft Learn
Add or remove a gateway data source - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
Best Regards,
Aniya Zhang
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Community ChampionYou can use the data gateway for free without needing Pro/PPU/Premium capacity.
May double post - in case these older posts are not floated to top.
Yesterday, installed On-premise Power Bi Gateway (Standard) for first time. Version 3000.270.10 (May 2025). During install at step Email address to use with this gateway, to register the gateway, used a 'new' account specific for Gateway. This account was not licensed in any way for any Cloud applications, nor given any Azure related Roles. Vanilla. The installation worked as expected. Gateway is 'up' etc within the Power Platform Admin Center. This account is the Admin of the gateway.
Today, for testing re recovery key, I accessed On-premise Power Bi Gateway, logged on with the account used above without issue. This provided the Recovery Keys option. However when I set the Recovery Key and submit for the change
Received the following error:
(including all detail for completeness...but the jist is ErrorCode: UserNotLicensed
So what license needs to be applied to the user to allow for these types of changes?
Error:
One or more errors occurred.
Response status code does not indicate success: 401 (Unauthorized)
Request Id: f0426fc5-ceca-4cde-9ace-58cab24d2312
Timestamp: 6/4/2025 3:53:21 PM +00:00
ErrorCode: UserNotLicensed
at Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.ExternalClient.PowerBIDataMovementClientExtensions.<EnsureSuccessfulDMMSRequestAsync>d__0.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at Microsoft.PowerBI.DataMovement.Pipeline.ExternalClient.PowerBIDataMovementClientExtensions.<DiscoverDatasourcesForGatewayAsync>d__5`1.MoveNext()