Updated: July 23, 2020 (August 8, 2018)

Power BI Back-end Report Hosting Options

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	Description	Power BI (Free)	Power BI Pro	Power BI Premium	Power BI Report Server
Report Types
Power BI (.pbix)	Power BI file format created via Power BI Desktop or programmatically.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Excel (.xlsx)	Excel 2016 and higher workbooks.	No	Yes (Requires Office 365 subscription)	Yes (Requires Office 365 subscription)	Yes (Requires Office Online Server)
Paginated (RDL)	Traditional columnar reports generated for SQL Server Reporting Services.	No	No	Preview (Expected in late 2018)	Yes
KPIs	Live performance metrics.	Limited	Yes	Yes	Yes
Capacities and Limits
Data model	Maximum size of data models supported.	1GB	1GB	50GB	N/A
Data storage	Amount of storage provided for reports and data models.	1GB per user	10GB per user, aggregated in a tenancy	100TB per tenancy

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