Power BI
Uncover powerful insights and turn them into impact
Connect to and visualize any data, and seamlessly infuse visuals into the apps you use every day.
Product overview
Create a data-driven culture with BI for all
- Turn your data into visuals with advanced data-analysis tools, AI capabilities, and a user-friendly report-creation tool.
- Create datasets from any source and add them to the OneLake data hub to create a source of truth for your data.
- Help users make better decisions by infusing insights into the apps they use every day, like those in Microsoft 365.
- Reshape how your organization accesses, manages, and acts on data by activating Microsoft Fabric in your Power BI experience.
- Transform petabytes with enterprise-grade ingestion and semantic modeling in a tool that can scale across thousands of users.
- Easily embed and share reports in your other Microsoft services, including Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, and Power Platform.
- Employ easy-to-use AI features that can find patterns in data, create reports instantly, provide answers, and more.
- Meet your requirements and gain end-to-end visibility with Microsoft governance, security, and compliance.
- Create reports in seconds, generate DAX calculations, create summaries, and get answers, all in conversational language.
- Quickly create and tailor reports by simply describing what you want or asking questions about your data.
- Understand your data faster by adding insightful text summaries, and even tailor the tone, scope, and style of narratives.
- Use Copilot across the Power BI experience including in the explore feature to summarize your semantic models and in the DAX query view to write and explain DAX queries.
- Enable users without paid licenses to interact with reports and access the rest of your Microsoft Fabric workloads.
- Establish an open data hub with OneLake to help data engineers connect and curate data from different sources.
- Employ the suite of Microsoft Fabric workloads to integrate, process, analyze, monitor, and visualize your data.
- Responsibly connect people and data using an open and scalable solution that gives data stewards additional control.
- License individual users with modern, self-service analytics for publishing reports and viewing content.
- Enable users to create reports and publish them to share with their coworkers, helping to foster self-service BI.
- Get Power BI Pro with other Microsoft 365 apps and industry-leading Microsoft security for one low price per user.
- Author reports for your own use or view Power BI content hosted in a Power BI Premium or Microsoft Fabric shared capacity.
- Use the free app to connect, model, and visualize data with an easy-to-use report canvas and hundreds of visuals.
- Sign up for the Microsoft Fabric free trial to explore the full suite of services—including everything Power BI has to offer.
- Get step-by-step guidance and explore key Power BI capabilities by taking Microsoft training courses.
Use cases
See what you can do with Power BI
Establish a governed source of truth
Connect all your disparate data sources in the same environment to establish a single source of truth for all your data.
Unify enterprise scale and self service
Combine enterprise-scale and self-service BI to drive insights and innovation at every level of your organization.
Infuse data experiences everywhere
Bridge the gap between insights and decisions through unmatched interoperation with the apps people use every day.
Empower anyone to work with data
Ensure everyone can explore data with an easy-to-use interface, free training resources, and an array of accessibility features.
Get started immediately
Start quickly with an easy-to-use report-creation experience, AI-generated reports, and hundreds of report templates.
Embed BI reports for your customers
Improve usability and user engagement in your own apps by using Power BI Embedded to embed stunning reports.
Power BI + Microsoft 365: Greater productivity
Learn how businesses drove productivity by combining Power BI and Microsoft 365 in The Total Economic ImpactTM commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting.1
321% return on investment over 3 years
<6 months to payback
$38.48M total benefit over 3 years
RESEARCH AND NEWS
Independent research and news
Microsoft was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision in the June 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.2
Learn about cost savings and business benefits enabled by Microsoft Fabric, including a 379% ROI, in The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Fabric, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting.3
Read about the Power BI innovations announced at Microsoft Build.
Pricing
Plans to suit every need
Free account
Create rich, interactive reports with visual analytics at your fingertips for free.
Free
Create rich, interactive reports with visual analytics at your fingertips for free.
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Power BI Pro
Access Power BI reports shared with you and publish your own for an even bigger impact.
$10.00
user/month
Access Power BI reports shared with you and publish your own for an even bigger impact.
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Power BI Premium Per User
License specific users with enterprise-scale features.
$20.00
user/month
License specific users with enterprise-scale features.
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Power BI in Microsoft Fabric
Share reports with users who don’t have paid licenses and get access to Microsoft Fabric workloads using a single capacity.
Variable
Share reports with users who don’t have paid licenses and get access to Microsoft Fabric workloads using a single capacity.
This product is not available in your market.
Interoperability
Powerful alone, better together
Security
Gain visibility into your data estate
Get peace of mind with built-in security features and seamless interoperation with leading security and governance solutions.
Customer stories
Real customers, real results
Resources
Explore everything Power BI has to offer
Frequently asked questions
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Power BI is a unified, scalable platform for self-service and enterprise business intelligence (BI). Connect to and visualize any data, and seamlessly infuse the visuals into the apps you use every day.
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Power BI licenses aren’t exclusive—there are several ways to mix and match plans and licenses. For example, you could purchase Premium (P-SKU) or Microsoft Fabric (F-SKU) capacity to host the most popular reports, and then buy Power BI Pro licenses (or get them through Microsoft 365 E5) for your users who need to create and publish reports. Contact a sales expert to learn more.
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Microsoft Power BI Embedded is a pay-as-you-go Azure platform as a service (PaaS) offering. It allows app developers to embed fully interactive reports into their apps without having to build their own data visuals and controls.
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Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics solution with full-service capabilities including data movement, data lakes, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, data monitoring, and business intelligence—all backed by a shared platform providing robust data security, governance, and compliance.
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Power BI provides the industry-leading BI in Microsoft Fabric that enables you to gain insights from data. Power BI Premium per capacity customers can simply turn on the Fabric tenant setting and access the rest of the product in a unified experience. And with its unified capacity model, Power BI Premium per capacity can be used against any Microsoft Fabric workload.
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Power BI Pro customers can access Fabric workloads only through the Microsoft Fabric trial experience.
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Feature availability depends on both SKU and capacity level. See the features list for specific details.
Take the next step
Start using Power BI for free
Find insights within your data and share rich analytics reports by trying Power BI free in Microsoft Fabric.
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