Updated: November 18, 2024 (October 28, 2024)

Using Power BI in Fabric? Features and User Licensing Depend on Fabric Size

Andrew analyzes and writes about Microsoft's data management, business intelligence, and machine learning solutions, as well as aspects of licensing... more

Sharing Power BI reports through Fabric requires understanding the features and licensing requirements of different Fabric capacities.

Low-end Fabric sizes (Fabric F2 – F32) do not include Power BI rights and work only with Power BI Pro, which must be purchased separately.

High-end Fabric sizes (Fabric F64 – F2048) include an attached Power BI Premium deployment with user licensing and storage.

Customers using Power BI should architect Fabric deployments to optimize licensing costs and ensure access to enterprise features.

Fabric and Power BI are well integrated, and the services share a common UI that allows them to work together and share data and processes. However, when Power BI reports are shared through Fabric deployments, the available Power BI feature set and user licensing requirements vary by Fabric deployment size (called a capacity).

This report will help organizations needing to share Power BI reports through Fabric understand the differences and limitations of how Power BI and Fabric are packaged at various capacities to ensure they avoid purchasing and deployment mistakes. Customers who will benefit from this report will generally fall into one of the following categories:

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