Power Platform Licensing: Power Pages and Power Virtual Agents

• Power Pages allows organizations to create and deploy low-code, data-centric Web sites based on Power Apps.
• Power Virtual Agents is a service that supports chatbots, which provide information to users based on natural language queries.
• Both Power Pages and Power Virtual Agents have capacity-based licensing plans that could escalate costs unexpectedly.

Two Power Platform services—Power Pages and Power Virtual Agents—have capacity-based licensing models that require careful monitoring to avoid excessive, unplanned costs.

Power Pages

Power Pages, formerly known as Power Apps portals, is a low-code service that allows customers to create and deploy public-facing, data-centric Web sites based on Power Apps. It could serve a role similar to SharePoint Online, but offers a different licensing model: Power Pages sites meter usage based on the total number of users visiting a site each calendar month. Each user is counted once per calendar month, regardless of how many times they visit a site. The service tallies users in three categories: