Power BI without Azure subscription

[advuser1]

I have a customer who want to use Power BI for a POC, but do not have any Azure infrastructure. 

Is it possible to use Power BI without having Azure AD and Azure Subscriptions ?  

The customer want to acquire a handful of Power BI Pro licences and play with the Power BI including publishing to Power BI Service and sharing, collbaration and other features available for Pro licence users. They however do not want to invest in Azure AD or sign up to Azure for the POC.

Thank You

[jcalheir]

Hi,

There is a Microsoft 365 Developer program tha allows you to create a Free Microsoft 365 E5 account for development pursoposes. I know that this program does not aplly for commercial purposes, you should investigate if your acctual scenario applies or not.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

Also, Azure lets you create a trial account for 30 days with 200$ credit. You can also explore this option

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0044p/

[v-rzhou-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @advuser1 ,

As far as I know, everytime Power BI account will need to get Azure AD token from Azure to sign in Power BI Service. When your customer sign up an account for Power BI, we check your email address.  If that domain is registered as a Tenant, we will try to add that user to the existing Tenant .  If the Tenant does not exist, we will create, what I call, a shadow tenant that isn’t managed by anyone, and add your user to that tenant. 

Then your account need to have license to Power BI. You can add free license in Microsoft 365 admin center. If you want to get Pro license, you need to purchase and assign license in 365 admin center or in Azure portal.

For reference:

Purchase and assign Power BI Pro user licenses

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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