Power BI Service Packaging

The Power BI hosted business intelligence (BI) service is the report repository service that hosts reports customers publish in order to share with other users. The hosting service is offered as a stand-alone subscription and is also available in some Office 365 plans. The offerings include a paid professional tier, Power BI Pro, and a limited free tier, Power BI.

Power BI Pro (Paid)

Power BI Pro requires a paid subscription, either stand-alone or as part of Office 365 plans. It allows reports to contain 10GB of data per report, hourly data refreshes, and 1 million rows of streaming data per hour from Azure Stream Analytics service to deliver real-time data.

Features exclusive to Power BI Pro subscriptions include access to reports in Office 365 Groups, access to on-premises data through the data gateways and connectors, team dashboards, natural language queries, and Web portal—based report design and publishing.

Power BI Pro will most likely appeal to organizations, as it is the only tier that provides access to on-premises data and data refreshes. It also provides more interactive and self-service analysis features in the Web portal and mobile applications.