Question on Power BI Embedded and Pricing

[KevinSGoff]

Hi,  hope this question makes sense.

My company has SQL 2016 Enterprise + Software assurance, so we currently deploy Power BI content "on-prem" using Power BI Report Server.    All good and clear on that one.

We now want to take a handful of visuals (refreshed daily or maybe once a hour through the gateway) and put them in the Cloud, so that we can embed them into ASP.NET web pages.  The data will still reside on-prem, though we'd refresh a few times a day.

I already did a prototype of this using Power BI Pro and it works  (I used the APP_OWNS_DATA Visual studio solution)

My question:  if we want to make our ASP.NET web pages available to our customers on our customer portal, I'm not certain what is the minimum we'd have to pay.  I have a web page from a year ago where the cost would be as little as a dollar an hour for an A1 node, 2 dollars an hour for an A2, node.     But I thought I had read somewhere recently that had changed.

So...my question...we have sql 2016 EE + SA internally.....what is the minimum we'd need to pay now to embed maybe 5-10 reports into an ASP.NET webpage for ourside users?

Thanks,
Kevin

[Greg_Deckler]

@KevinSGoff - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-BI-Licensing-in-Pictures-Updated/ba-p/1291304

My understanding is that Power BI Embedded is still $1/hour for an A1 instance.

Now, there is the Power BI EM SKU's. An EM1 is $650/month (flat monthly cost). So, my understanding is that would provide the correct licensing even for external users but please verify that with a Microsoft licensing expert!!

[KevinSGoff]

Thanks for replying, I will check that out.  (And I'll check out your DAX book)

Follow-up...I just noticed this:

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/licensing-and-roadmap-update-for-power-bi-report-server/

Specifically, this: "We’ve recently updated our licensing terms to allow SQL Server Enterprise customers with software assurance to deploy Power BI Report Server on Azure VM’s for production use by leveraging their Azure Hybrid Benefit. "

That's what I've been wondering....we've been a purely on-prem shop, but want to move PBI to the cloud.  We already have SQL Enterprise + software assurance:  does "that" give us license to push PBI content up to the cloud and embed in  .NET apps for our customer base on the outside....without having to buy anything else?

Thanks,

Kevin

[v-lionel-msft]

Hi @KevinSGoff ,

I guess you want to use Power BI Service, but the terms say Power BI Report Server.

Comparing Power BI Report Server and the Power BI service 

For Power BI Service, please refer to the following links.

Power BI service features by license type 

Power BI pricing( Pro VS Premium) 

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

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