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.
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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.
- Discover a modern way of dashboarding with interactive, agentic applications, you can create using natural language.
- Create apps directly on Power BI semantic models, so every experience is grounded in your organization's governed data, trusted metrics, and business logic.
- Go beyond exploring data by building interactive experiences that help users make decisions, trigger workflows and take actions.
Use cases
See what you can do with Power BI
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 as A Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2026.2
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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.
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 interoperation with leading security and governance solutions.
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