Updated: November 11, 2024 (October 30, 2023)

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Power Platform Licensing: Power Apps

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Joshua Trupin

Joshua Trupin was a former Directions on Microsoft Analyst that wrote about Office 365 and Microsoft Services. Before joining Directions... more

  • Power Apps can enable business users and units to create their own applications with less technical help.
  • The service is offered in a multitude of license types; customers will need to evaluate their needs before committing to one plan.
  • Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 offer limited Power Apps rights that can lead to later expenses.
  • Pay-as-you-go plans can cost up to twice as much as standard plans and offer fewer capabilities.

Power Apps is a low-code graphical application development environment for nondevelopers to create applications that can present data for viewing and editing. The service offers several license types.

The service can be licensed in several ways:

  • Entitlements offered as part of Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 licenses
  • Full user licenses that grant rights to run any number of apps, one app, or any number of apps on a monthly pay-as-you-go (PAYG) basis.
  • A PAYG offering provides usage-based, rather than per-user, billing that can limit costs for specific scenarios such as early

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