Pro/Premium price & capacity

[Anonymous]

Hi,

According to Microsoft Learn, Power BI users appear to be classified into three different types of users: administrators, designers and business users. My question: are there different price plans for each type of users in Power BI Pro/Premium Per User?

Also, according to the Power BI Plans, the model size limit and maximum storage for Power BI Premium Per User are 100G and 100TB respectively. My question: what does each figure mean? (For instance, 100TB seems to be too huge for a single user. Is it a total capacity that the power bi provides?)

Thanks.

[ibarrau · Accepted solution]

Hi. The roles at a workspace won't have any difference on the licence by user. Unless you think about a dedicated capacity (premium or embed) then each role must have one of the licences. All of them should have pro if the workspace is a shared capacity (or pro workspace) and all of them should have ppu if the workspace has ppu capacity. Even if they are just viewers they should have the licence.

The sizes might be confusing. You can think those like this. You have a VM that has 100Gb of ram and 100Tb storage hard drive. That means you can't have a model with a size bigger than 100Gb because your ram won't be able to open it. You can have as many reports open in different workspaces the sum of memory of the reports is not higher than 100Gb at the same time. From a storage perspective you can store more than 100Gb. Unless a user is watching or refreshing a report, it won't be loaded at ram, so you can keep it stored at the 100Tb.

I hope that make sense

[Anonymous]

Thanks you for your detailed explanation.

It will be of great help.