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Power BI in MicrosoftFabric free account
Free
Create rich, interactive reports that put visual analytics at your fingertips using PowerBI, included in your free account for MicrosoftFabric Preview.
- No credit card required.
- Upgrade to PowerBI Pro or PowerBI Premium to share reports.
- Sign up for a free Fabric account
PowerBI Pro
Per user
£8.20
Per user/month
License individual users with modern, self-service analytics for publishing reports and dashboards and viewing content across your organisation.
- Publish and share PowerBI reports.
- PowerBI Pro is included in Microsoft365 E5.
- Available to buy now with a credit card.1
- Buy now
Power BI Premium
Per user
£16.40
Per user/month 2
License individual users with access to larger model sizes, more frequent refreshes, XMLA read/write, deployment pipelines, and other enterprise-scale features.
- Includes all the features available with PowerBI Pro.
- See additional Power BI Premium features.
- Available to buy now with a credit card.1
- Buy now
MicrosoftFabric
PowerBI Premium per capacity SKUs
From
£4,105.60
Per month for P1 SKU
License your organisation for access to MicrosoftFabric in a unified product experience that uses the same compute capacity and storage.3
- Includes all the features available in PowerBI Premium per user.
- Gain access to the rest of Microsoft Fabric workloads through a unified product experience and capacity.
- Use Autoscale to respond to occasional, unplanned overage spikes in capacity by automatically adding one vCore at a time per 24-hour period. The price of autoscale is $85 per vCore/24hours.4
- Contact Sales
MicrosoftFabric
Fabric Capacity Reservation SKUs
Fabric Capacity pay-as-you-go SKUs
Varies
License your organisation for access to MicrosoftFabric in a unified product experience that uses the same compute capacity and storage.3
- Smaller entry-level compute starting at F2.
- Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) eligible.
- Gain access to full MicrosoftFabric workloads through a unified product experience and capacity.
- Contact Sales
- See Fabric pricing
Fabric Capacity pay-as-you-go SKUs
Varies
License your organisation for access to MicrosoftFabric in a unified product experience that uses the same compute capacity and storage.3
- Small entry-level compute starting at F2.
- Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) eligible.
- Gain access to full MicrosoftFabric workloads through a unified product experience and capacity.
- Enjoy pay-as-you-go pricing, which you can scale up or down dynamically and even pause with no usage commitment.
- Contact Sales
- See Fabric pricing
Prices shown are for marketing purposes only and may not be reflective of actual list price due to currency, country, and regional variant factors. Your actual price will be reflected at checkout. All offers are subject to product service limits. Learn more. Contact a Microsoft representative to learn more about enterprise pricing and offers.
Academic, government, and nonprofit pricing are available.
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1 Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium per user subscriptions are available for self-service purchase, as well as through the Microsoft 365 admin centre. Purchasing Microsoft Fabric requires access to the Microsoft 365 admin centre. Learn more about available Power BI purchasing and licensing options.
2 A $10 per user/month add-on is available for users with Power BI Pro and Microsoft 365 E5 licences to step up to Power BI Premium per user. Learn more about purchasing Power BI Premium per user.
3 PowerBI Pro licence is required for all PowerBI Premium (“P”) and Fabric Capacity (“F”) SKUs to publish PowerBI content to Microsoft Fabric. Enabling content consumers to review and interact with PowerBI reports without additional paid per-user licences is available at P1 and above (and F64 and above).
4 Autoscale is an optional add-on that requires PowerBI Premium per capacity (Gen2) and Azure subscriptions. Limits can be preset with autoscale to control costs, such as thresholds on vCore scaling or total subscriptioncharges.
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| Feature 5 | Power BI in MicrosoftFabric free account | PowerBI Pro | PowerBI Premium per user | Power BI Premium per capacity (includes Microsoft Fabric) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create reports with PowerBIDesktop6 | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Publish PowerBI reports to share and collaborate | Included | Included | ||
| Advanced AI, dataflows, datamarts, and XMLA endpoint read/write | Included | Included | ||
| All users can consume PowerBI content without a paid per-userlicence7 | Included | |||
| Access to all the Microsoft Fabric workloads, including Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Science, Real-Time Analytics, and Data Activator | Included | |||
| Model memory size limit8 | 1 GB | 100 GB | 400 GB | |
| Refresh rate for Power BI datasets | 8/day | 48/day | 48/day | |
| Maximum storage (PowerBI native storage)9 | 10 GB/user | 100 TB | 100TB | |
| Data security and encryption | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| OneLake storage, OneLake BCDR storage, OneLake cache, and networking10 | Included |
| Power BI in MicrosoftFabric free account | PowerBI Pro | PowerBI Premium per user | Power BI Premium per capacity (includes Microsoft Fabric) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create reports with PowerBIDesktop6 | |||
| Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Publish PowerBI reports to share and collaborate | |||
| Included | Included | ||
| Advanced AI, dataflows, datamarts, and XMLA endpoint read/write | |||
| Included | Included | ||
| All users can consume PowerBI content without a paid per-userlicence7 | |||
| Included | |||
| Access to all the Microsoft Fabric workloads, including Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Science, Real-Time Analytics, and Data Activator | |||
| Included | |||
| Model memory size limit8 | |||
| 1 GB | 100 GB | 400 GB | |
| Refresh rate for Power BI datasets | |||
| 8/day | 48/day | 48/day | |
| Maximum storage (PowerBI native storage)9 | |||
| 10 GB/user | 100 TB | 100TB | |
| Data security and encryption | |||
| Included | Included | Included | Included |
| OneLake storage, OneLake BCDR storage, OneLake cache, and networking10 | |||
| Included | |||
5 Representative of features available in general availability (GA)status.
6 PowerBI Desktop is the data exploration and report authoring experience for PowerBI, and it is available as a freedownload.
7 PowerBI report consumption without paid per-user licences applies to Fabric SKUs F64 and above, and PowerBI Premium per capacity SKUs P1 andabove.
8 See the PowerBI model memory size limit capacity and SKUs.
9 For storing PowerBI data setsonly
10 For a limited time, PowerBI Premium per capacity customers will be able to use OneLake storage, OneLake cache, OneLake BCDR storage, and networking without an Azure subscription. Eventually, an Azure subscription will be required, and the standard prices apply. For more information on pricing, visit Fabric pricing page.
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