power bi premium & row level security - licensing

[wernerengelen]

Hi,

we have Power BI Premium and we want to use row level security. I was in the assumption that consumers (users which are using reports, not creating reports) could be added at no cost. However our technical team informed me that when we would like to use row level security, that this is no longer the case and that we need to use a Power BI Pro licencse for each consumer in that case.

Can somebody elaborate on this or agree or disagree on this?

thank you!

[v-chenwuz-msft]

Hi @wernerengelen ,

Maybe you can consider the Power BI embedded analytics solutions. Embed your content for your customers. Users can login your application on your own authentication without power bi account.

For more details, you can refer these links.

Embed for your customers

Authentication flows

Best Regards

Community Support Team _ chenwu zhu

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[jimmy7377]

IF you had the premium capacity then there is no charge for a consumer licence but you are still charged for your developer licences.

A temp licence can be used in RLS as it is only looking at the User principal name( Email address) and checking against the role you have created. We are only moving to Premium this August but we are using RLS for a lot of our reports who hole Pro, Temp(Free 60 Days) and PPU licences.

Kind Regards,