{"id":1360,"slug":"power-bi-pricing-april-2025","title":"Power BI pricing (April 2025): Pro $14/user/mo, Premium Per User $24/user/mo (both raised from $10/$20); Fabric F2 ~$262/mo to F64 ~$5,000/mo (viewers no per-user); Embedded A1 ~$735/mo","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","smb-owner","candid-team"],"topics":["dashboards","bi-tools-landscape"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** **Microsoft Power BI** — **Pro $14/user/month**; **Premium Per User $24/user/month** (both raised from $10/$20 on **April 1, 2025**); **Fabric capacity F2 ~$262-263/month**, scaling to **F64 (~$5,000-5,068/month reserved)** where viewers no longer need per-user licenses; **Power BI Embedded via A-SKUs from ~$735/month (A1)**. (As of ~April-June 2026.)\n\n**Source:** microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-bi/pricing ; Azure pricing calculator.\n\n**Confidence:** Verified — Microsoft page corroborated by multiple third parties.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** Default internal-dashboard recommendation for clients already on Microsoft 365 — Pro is ~$14/user/mo or **free if on M365 E5**. Fabric tier kicks in when viewer counts make per-seat uneconomic — typically 100+ viewers.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-dashboards-smb-june-2026","title":"Research brief: dashboards for SMBs — what's worth showing, and when an embedded one earns its keep (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"looker-studio-per-project-trap","title":"Looker Studio: free tier widely used; Looker Studio Pro $9/user/Google-Cloud-PROJECT/month (per-project detail materially inflates agency costs); separate Looker (Google Cloud core) $35K-60K+/yr","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"tableau-pricing-tiers-2026","title":"Tableau pricing (2026): Cloud Standard Viewer $15 / Explorer $42 / Creator $75 per user/mo (annual); Enterprise $35/$70/$115; embedded/OEM year-1 floor reportedly $60K-150K","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"metabase-pricing-tiers-2026","title":"Metabase pricing (2026): Open Source free (AGPL v3 self-host); Cloud Starter $100/mo (5 users included, +$6/user); Pro $575/mo (10 users, +$12/user; white-label + embedded + RLS + SSO); Enterprise from ~$20K/yr","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"rule-for-internal-default-cheapest-tool-that-fits-stack","title":"R2 — For internal dashboards, default to the cheapest tool that fits the existing stack: Power BI Pro for M365 shops, free Looker Studio for Google/marketing data, Metabase for SQL-comfortable / future-embedding","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.154Z","updated_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.154Z"}