Premium per User Horsepower vs Premium per Capacity (P1)

[AnonymousPerson]

If I switch from a Power BI Premium per Capacity P1 license to Premum per User, should I expect a degradation in performance? I don't see any literature that describes how much resources a Premium per User capacity has... Is it just the same shared capacity that a pro license would have?

[v-yetao1-msft]

Hi @AnonymousPerson 

When you switch Premium Capacity to Premium per user ,some functions will be unavailable .Detail info please refer to the following table .

At the same time, there are some differences for licenses. If your content in the Premium capacity , pro user or free user can access your report if you grant access for them .If the license for you is Premium per user , only PPU license user can access your content .Detial info can refer to the following table .

I found a document describing PPU in detail ,you can refer to it .

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-premium-per-user-faq

The following is an introduction about premium .

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/admin/service-premium-what-is

Best Regards

Community Support Team _ Ailsa Tao

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[GilbertQ]

Yeah that would be best to know for certain.

[AnonymousPerson · Accepted solution]

Due to the lack of documentation here, I suppose I will just sign up for a premium per user trial, and do some benchmarking.

[MPawlikowski]

Were you able to run the tests? Did you come to any conclusions?

[GilbertQ]

Hi @AnonymousPerson 

The only thing that I know is documented is that for Premium per User you get 100GB of memory which is a lot more than a P1, and I would imagine that the processors would be similar too, so the performance should be the same in my opinion.