Licensing
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To get access to Power Embedded and start saving on Power BI licensing, you only need to make 3 investments, 2 of which are monthly and 1 of which is a one-off payment:
One-off investment
R$ 1.500,00 for installation and initial configuration of the environment.
Monthly investments
From R$ 427.54 for capacity licensing, depending on your needs.
R$ 5.00 per user you create in the system.
To access the calculator and generate a quote, go to the Calculator page.
Estimated values for Fabric and Power BI Embedded capacities (258h = 12h per day x 5 days a week):
Yes, it is possible to generate tokens for Embed reports in a Pro or Premium Per User capacity, but according to Microsoft's official documentation:
“Tokens embedded with a Pro or Premium Per User (PPU) license are intended for development testing, so a Power BI Master or Service Principal account can only generate a limited number of tokens.
Purchase a capacity for incorporation into a production environment. There is no limit to how many embedded tokens you can generate when you purchase a capacity.
In development tests, you can use free embedded evaluation tokens with a Pro license. To embed in a production environment, you must purchase a capacity.
The Power BI Embedded questions and answers page reaffirms that Pro accounts cannot be used for Embedded solutions in production:
“Tokens inserted with a Pro or PPU (Premium Per User) license are intended for development testing, so a Power BI master account or service entity can only generate a limited number of tokens. Purchase a capacity to insert in a production environment. There is no limit to the number of inserted tokens you can generate when you buy a capacity. In development tests, you can use free insert evaluation tokens with a Pro license. To make an insert in a production environment, you must purchase a capacity.”
The page Power BI usage scenarios: insert for customers - Power BI | Microsoft Learn also reinforces that the use of a capability is mandatory in order to use Embedded technologies.
In addition, the content that will be shown in the application MUST NOT be in a personal workspace.
If you are using a platform that uses a Pro account to generate report insertion tokens, without using a capability to do so, you are probably violating Power BI's terms of use and your company could face fines and sanctions from Microsoft.
Even if you use a Power BI capacity license, whether it's Power BI Embedded, Fabric, or even Power BI Premium per capacity (the one that costs R$ 32,000.00 per month), all users who publish reports need a Pro or PPU (Premium per user) license.
To avoid having to have a Pro license for each user who publishes reports, an alternative is to use Azure DevOps for automatic publishing with CI/CD, for example, which Power Tuning supports and can help you implement this process in your company through consultancy.
By using the free Power BI license, you can use Power BI Desktop freely, without any limitations. You can also publish your reports in your personal workspace and test them at will.
As soon as you need to share the reports with other people, the Pro license becomes necessary, because it is through this license (or more expensive licenses) that you can share the reports.
The only ways to share reports without having to buy a Power BI license is to send the PBIX file to the person or use the “Publish on the Web” feature, which allows you to share the report with anyone who has access to the report link, but does not have any kind of security.