Can we use a Premium Per User Master account to embed reports for our customers?

[powerbi-ib]

Hello,

At my organization, we currently use one Pro license as a master account to embed powerbi reports in our website. That report can be viewed with some functionality limits by any user, even if that user does not have a Pro license.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-sample-for-customers?tabs=net-fra...

We have now hit the API Embed Token Usage limit using a Pro account, so we are looking into upgrading to premium to solve that problem. I am wondering the following: Instead of doing a full upgrade to premium capacity, can we use the new Premium Per User instead? The Premium Per User would act as the master acocunt as we currnetly do with our pro account. And ideally it would have no embed token restrictions and any user would still be able to view embedded reports even without a pro/premium license.

[v-rzhou-msft]

Hi @powerbi-ib 

In addition to  GilbertQ 's reply, Premium Per User will work in the same way embedded use cases work when you use a Pro license. You can embed the content and each user will need a PPU license to view it.

For more details about this answer: End user experience questions

I think you want to embed your report to your application, and anyone even without pro/premium license can see this report.

You can try publish to web function to achieve your goal.

You need to be a Microsoft Power BI user to use Publish to web.

Your report viewers don't need to be Power BI users.

Best Regards,

Rico Zhou

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[GilbertQ · Accepted solution]

Hi @powerbi-ib 

I would suggest that this is not suitable firstly because it goes against the licensing in Power BI, where every user who views a report outside of Power BI Premium capacity requires a Power BI Pro licenses. 

Once again if you use Power BI Premium Per User, every user who views the reports in this capacity should also have a Power BI Premium per User license.

What you could do is to use Power BI Embedded with the EM SKU which would allow this to work.