Thanks for the reply yes you re right this is just a general question.
Power bi free account limitations.
Power bi feature list for consumers and others with free licenses.
There is a 1 gb limit per dataset that is imported into power bi.
Power bi free vs power bi pro vs power bi premium.
Individual users can get their own power bi license by signing up with their work or school account.
This includes the same 1 gb workbook size limit up to 8 daily scheduled refreshes for datasets and maximum 1 million rows hour streaming data rate.
Naturally there are some feature limitations with power bi desktop which in many cases are an incentive to upgrade.
Outside of premium capacity a user with a free license can only use the power bi service to connect to data and create reports and dashboards in my workspace.
Can t share created reports with non power bi pro users.
If you have chosen to keep the excel experience instead of importing the data the limit is 250 mb for the dataset.
What capabilities are being added to the free service.
I don t have such a sample on hand.
Publish content to power bi premium.
Publish content to power bi report server.
Receive content from another user unless the user is associated with dedicated capacity in power bi premium.
Beginning june 1 the free service will have capabilities equivalent to power bi pro.
Power bi free limitations although powerful the power bi free licence has several limitations.
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Power bi service for business users power bi service for designers developers power bi desktop requires pro or premium license as a business user you use the power bi service to explore reports and dashboards in order to make business decisions.
With a free license users can explore power bi for personal data analysis and visualization using my workspace but they can t share with other users.
What happens when you reach a limit.
A power bi pro license is required to share content.
Distribute content to other users and for peer to peer sharing and collaboration.
A power bi pro license is required to.
The most obvious is that free licences cannot share reports or dashboards with other users neither can they view reports or dashboards shared from other pro licence users.