Two Types of Power Automate Plans

When planning Power Automate licensing, an organization must choose between two plans, which can be mixed and matched as needed.

The Power Automate Per-User plan provides a single user with the right to use unlimited flows within a tenancy. Per-user plans have been clarified in informal documentation as intended for “personal automation”: flows that are invoked manually by a user performing an action such as pressing a button, a call from Power Apps, or similar event-based triggers (as opposed to those triggered on a schedule or when invoked by automated polling activity).

The Power Automate Per-Flow plan can be assigned to a flow and grants usage rights to that flow for an unlimited number of users in a tenancy. Per-flow plans are intended for “enterprise process automation”: repeated, unattended operation in the context of an organization-wide line-of-business workflow such as expense report approval processes and automated daily reports, where data might be routed to a larger group of employees. These flows, also known as automated or scheduled flows, are invoked on a set schedule or triggered by an event such as a new file being placed in a shared directory.