As of today, there isn’t a single place from where to check the actual prices of the different license types covered by the Microsoft Power Platform suite of products – like there is for Dynamics 365, for example. The information of prices vs. what paying that price actually entitles you to is distributed across several information sources and formats, starting from the individual product pages, to the docs.microsoft.com documentation pages, to the PDF licensing guides.
To stop myself from having to always use a search engine to discover these pricing details, I decided to compile a list of links to the places where each individual Power Platform product team has made their pricing information public, as well as write out the current subscription prices in US Dollars and Euros. I’ve also included a few relevant licensing model elements that describe what the particular subscription entitles you to do (capacity, features and so on). Here are the topics / anchor links to each section of this page:
Your actual licensing costs will of course depend on the types of agreements your organization has with Microsoft, so consider these as mainly a starting point for understanding the relative costs of different Power Platform services. Also keep in mind that since Power Platform is not licensed on a pay-as-you-go model but rather via upfront monthly purchases of licenses, all of these are “per month” prices. Read more about my thoughts on licensing by consumption.
To bookmark this page for easy access, just use jukkan.com/pricing . To browse through my archive of licensing related blog posts, go to jukkan.com/licensing .
Power Apps (formerly “PowerApps”)
Power Apps per app plan: $10 (€8.40)
- Allows you to access two custom Power Apps (Canvas app or Model-driven app) and one Portal app
- All apps must be in the same CDS environment
Power Apps per user plan: $40 (€33.70)
- Allows you to access an unlimited number of Power Apps (Canvas/Model-driven/Portal) in your tenant
- Can also be used for accessing Canvas apps shared to guests in another tenant
Power Apps pricing change on October 2021
Starting Oct 1st 2021, the Power Apps per app list price will be $5 and Power Apps per user $20. See this blog post for more details on the price reduction as well as changes in the per app license entitlements.
Power Apps Portals
Power Apps and Power Automate licensing FAQ: Portals
- Power Apps portals login capacity add-on, 100 logins per month: $200 (€168.79)(see also discount tiers)
- Power Apps portals page view capacity add-on, 100,000 page views per month: $100 (€84.30)
- Internal users must be licensed separately, either via Power Apps or Dynamics 365 licenses.
Common Data Service capacity
Power Apps and Power Automate licensing FAQ: Add-ons
Storage:
- Common Data Service Database Capacity (1GB) $40 (€33.70) per month
- Common Data Service File Capacity (1GB) $2 (€1.69) per month
- Common Data Service Log Capacity (1GB) $10 (€8.40) per month
API requests:
- Power Apps and Power Automate capacity add-on: 10,000 daily API requests for $50 (€42.20) per month
See also: CDS capacity is included with the Power Apps and Power Automate plans.
Power Automate (formerly “Microsoft Flow”)
Power Automate per user plan: $15 (€13)
- Allows individual users to create unlimited flows, execution is limited based on available API requests per day (5,000 included)
- Note: while Power Apps per app and per user plans includes similar rights, they are tied to the context of a Canvas or Model-driven app
Power Automate per flow plan: $500 (€421) for five flows per month
- Allows the organization to implement 5 flows, regardless of the number of users who trigger them
- Child flows triggered by a parent flow do not need to be licensed
- Execution is limited based on available API requests per day (15,000 included)
- Additional flows can be purchased at $100 per flow per month
Power Automate per user plan with attended RPA: $40 (€34)
- Allows individual users to run an attended RPA bot on their workstation
- Presumably also contains similar rights as the standard Power Automate per user plan
Power Automate unattended RPA add-on: $150 (€127)
- Allows the organization to run a single unattended RPA bot, no dependencies to users or workstations
- Add-on requires either per user plan with attended RPA or per flow plan
AI Builder
Power Apps and Power Automate licensing FAQ: AI Builder
AI Builder capacity add-on: $500 (€421,70) per unit per month
- Each unit contains 1 million service credits on the tenant level
- Allows the organization to use any of the AI model types included in AI Builder
- AI models consume service credits when they are trained, used in an app or flow, or scheduled to periodically run. The amount of capacity consumed varies based the AI model, as well as the size and complexity of the data set.
- Add-on requires at least one paid Power Apps, Power Automate or Dynamics 365 license
- For the built-in Business Card scanning feature in Dynamics 365 Sales, there is free capacity included in Sales Enterprise App licenses: 10 scans per user per month, pooled at tenant level. Sales Insights has a capacity limit for business card scanning of 200/user/month. If additional Business card scanning capacity is required, Sales Enterprise customers may purchase additional Sales Insights licenses. (Taken from Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide PDF document.)
Power Virtual Agent
Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agent licensing guide
Assign licenses and manage access to Power Virtual Agents
Power Virtual Agent: $1,000 (€843.20) per 2,000 sessions per month
- Allows the organization to have an unlimited number of bots
- In addition to the tenant license, internal users will need to be assigned a user license. The tenant license costs money, but the user licenses that are purchased via the same mechanism are apparently free.
- “A session is an interaction between the customer and the bot, and represents one unit of consumption. The session begins when an authored topic is triggered. These sessions are referred to as ‘billed sessions’ in the product. Sessions are deducted for both testing and production usage.”
- There also is a Power Virtual Agents capacity add-on for 1,000 additional sessions per month, but no publicly available price appears to exist for it.
Power BI
Power BI licensing in your organization
Power BI Pro: $9.99 (€8.40) per user
- Included in Office 365 E5 subscriptions for no additional charge
- Each Pro license gets 10 GB of data storage capacity
Power BI Premium: starting from $4,995 (€4,212,30) per organization
- Offers dedicated compute and storage resources for your organization
- No per-user license assignment needed for report consumption, report creation and sharing still requires Pro licenses for users
- Required for advanced features like Paginated reports (think SSRS), incremental refresh, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. See comparison table
- See What is Power BI Premium and Power BI Premium FAQ for more details
Forms Pro
Forms Pro responses: $100 (€84.30) per 2,000 responses per month
- For a tenant that has Dynamics 365 Enterprise Apps enabled (any number, probably just one will do), there is a free quota of 2,000 responses per month
- Additional responses need to be purchased in batches of 2,000
- (OK, so technically Forms Pro isn’t a Power Platform service, but since it doesn’t fall under Dynamics 365 either in MS documentation, I decided to list it as a platform service in this context.)
Dive deeper into the licensing details
Microsoft usually posts monthly updates to their licensing guide PDF documents. Here’s where you can grab the latest copies: Power Apps / Automate / Virtual Agent Licensing Guide & Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.
Do you know if the App for Outlook (model-driven app) counts as 1 of the 2 apps in the per app license?
Niels, please see my reply in the comments for this blog post: New Team Member apps for Dynamics 365.
Mind clarifying the “Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan” does that include the AI builder? As it states 5000 service credits per month in the details. Or does this plan require an add-on (AI builder). Thanks.
Since the footnote on the Power Automate pricing page says: “AI Builder service credit capacity is pooled at the tenant level. Purchase additional capacity per 1M service credits for $500/month.” I would interpret it so that the Per user plan with attended RPA accrues the AI capacity by 5k for each licenses. Beyond that, you’ll need to make the jump from 5K to 1M with the add-on license.
Jukka … thank you for this very-much-needed post. It’s now a preciously guarded bookmark.