Power BI
Uncover powerful insights and turn them into impact with a unified analytics platform.
Visualize any data and use Copilot in Microsoft Fabric to quickly explore, explain, and take action.
Product overview
Create a data-driven culture with business intelligence for all
- Connect governed data, trusted metrics, and interactive insights into one enterprise decision layer—so all your teams can make confident decisions, faster.
- Seamlessly connect to data from any source, cloud or on-premises, and bring it together in one place with OneLake to create a single source of truth for your organization.
- Give all your people access to an intuitive, easy-to-use business intelligence experience for any skill level—whether they’re analysts, decision-makers, or new team members.
- Reshape how your organization accesses, manages, and acts on data by activating Microsoft Fabric in your Power BI experience.
- Ask questions about your data or describe the report you need in natural language, and Copilot handles the rest — pulling the right data and generating visualizations and reports automatically, without manual report building.
- Use Copilot to generate instant text summaries and easy-to-understand narratives to quickly identify key trends in your data. For example, ask Copilot to add a summary to a dashboard that highlights why sales spiked this quarter—turning raw numbers into meaningful takeaways.
- Accelerate analytics by turning complex data modeling into a guided, AI-assisted experience—so teams can build trusted, business-ready semantic models faster and with fewer bottlenecks.
- Enable users without paid licenses to interact with reports and access the rest of your Microsoft Fabric workloads.
- Extend Power BI beyond dashboards by connecting directly to Microsoft Fabric, enabling faster end-to-end insights, from ingestion to visualization.
- Get consistent security, governance, and trusted data across every report and dataset with OneLake, which provides a centralized data foundation with open formats.
- Scale access, simplify administration, and optimize costs while delivering governed insights to every user with a unified capacity model from Fabric.
Use cases
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Build trusted semantic data models
Ensure every report and AI interaction is grounded in trusted business logic with enterprise-grade semantic models from Power BI.
Tell a story with powerful visuals
Turn your data into interactive visuals that help make insights immediately clear, comparable, and actionable.
Get quick answers from Copilot
Ask Copilot questions, get trusted answers, and explore insights using AI grounded in your business data.
Connect insights to your workflows
Share insights securely across Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and other apps your people use every day.
Turn insights into action
Trigger workflows, update data, and drive outcomes directly from your analytics to make an impact.
Embed BI reports for your customers
Improve usability and user engagement in your own apps by using Power BI Embedded to deliver stunning reports.
Drive productivity with Power BI + Microsoft 365
Learn how businesses drove productivity by combining Power BI and Microsoft 365 in The Total Economic ImpactTM Microsoft-commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting.1
RESEARCH AND NEWS
Independent research and news
Microsoft was positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision in the June 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.2
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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.
$14.00
user/month, paid yearly
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.
$24.00
user/month, paid yearly
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.
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Interoperability
Powerful alone, better together
Security
Gain visibility into your data estate
Get peace of mind with built-in security features and interoperation with leading security and governance solutions.
Customer stories
Real customers, real results
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
- Power BI is a unified, scalable platform for self-service and enterprise business intelligence (BI). You can use it to connect to and visualize any data, and infuse the visuals into the apps you use every day.
- A business intelligence platform is a tool that connects, analyzes, and visualizes data so organizations can make better decisions. With Power BI, this means turning your data into interactive dashboards and insights that help teams understand performance and take action faster.
- 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 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. Power BI Embedded costs as little as $1 per hour for analytics, with no requirement for end-user licensing.
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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.
Power BI provides the business intelligence layer in Microsoft Fabric that enables you to gain insights from your data. Power BI Premium 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. - Power BI Pro customers can access Fabric workloads only through the Microsoft Fabric trial experience.
Try Microsoft Fabric
- Feature availability depends on both SKU and capacity level. See the features list for specific details.
- Yes, Microsoft offers free, self-paced Power BI training through Microsoft Learn, with structured learning paths that cover everything from getting started to building reports and modeling data. You can also take practice assessments to prepare for official certifications once your team is ready.
Explore learning paths
- Microsoft provides a wide range of Power BI dashboard examples to help you get started. On Microsoft Learn, you can explore and download sample reports across scenarios like sales, customer profitability, IT spend, HR, and more, giving you a clear view of how dashboards are built and used.
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