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Choose the license that suits your needs
Desktop
For business analysts & BI professionals
$
monthly / user
Get Desktop
- Community support
- PBI Desktop development
- Offline development
- Power BI XMLA
- SSAS
- Azure AS
- Fabric Capacity
- DAX Optimizer access
Business
For BI individual developers & professionals
$
monthly / user
Get Business
- Community support
- PBI Desktop development
- Offline development
- Power BI XMLA (PPU only)
- SSAS (Standard Edition only)
- Azure AS (Basic tier only)
- Fabric Capacity
- DAX Optimizer access
Enterprise
For individuals, teams of BI developers & consultants
$
monthly / user
Get Enterprise
- Dedicated support
- PBI Desktop development
- Offline development
- Power BI XMLA
- SSAS (Any edition)
- Azure AS (Any tier)
- Fabric Capacity
- DAX Optimizer access
Company wide
For large organizations requiring enterprise licenses for the entire company
Contact Sales
- Dedicated support
- PBI Desktop development
- Offline development
- Power BI XMLA
- SSAS (Any Edition)
- Azure AS (Any tier)
- Fabric Capacity
- DAX Optimizer access
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Compare editions | Desktop$ / monthly | Business$ / monthly | Enterprise$ / monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| External tool for Power BI Desktop | |||
| Load/save model meta data to disk ¹ | 2 | ||
| Workspace Mode | 2 | ||
| DAX Optimizer access | 3 | ||
| Power BI Premium Per User | |||
| SQL Server Developer Edition | 2 | ||
| SQL Server Standard Edition | |||
| SQL Server Enterprise Edition | |||
| Azure AS Developer Tier | 2 | ||
| Azure AS Basic Tier | |||
| Azure AS Standard Tier | |||
| Power BI Premium Capacity (P SKUs) | |||
| Power BI Embedded Capacity (A/EM SKUs) | |||
| Fabric Capacity (F SKUs) | |||
| Transferable | 4 | ||
| Get Desktop | Get Business | Get Enterprise |
- .pbit (Power BI Template), .bim (Analysis Services model metadata), .vpax (VertiPaq Analyzer), database.json (Tabular Editor folder structure) and .tmdl (Tabular Model Definition Language).
- Enterprise Edition is required if the Analysis Services data model contains perspectives or tables with multiple partitions (does not apply to Power BI Desktop or Power BI Premium Per User models).
- Get 4 DAX Optimizer runs per day / 1 active model included. Read more.
- Seats on the Enterprise Edition can be transfered every 30 days.