Are you aware of Power Apps Licensing And Pricing? If No, then you are in the right place.
In this Power Apps tutorial, we will go through Power Apps licensing and what are the different plans where users can get access to Power Apps.
Power Apps Licensing And Pricing
With Power Apps, users can easily design their application with a Low-code development environment and access it over all devices/user interfaces.
“Every user should have a license to use a Power Apps”. There are four ways that we can get access to Power Apps.
- Power Apps free trial
- Power Apps subscription plans
- Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go
- Power Apps use rights
Power Apps Free Trial
- If a user doesn’t have a license to use Power Apps, then Microsoft provides a free trial for 30 days as temporary access to Power Apps.
- For accessing this Power Apps free trial, a user should have a work or school account else if they don’t have an account, then the user can create a free account with Azure AD.
- To start these Free trials, Go to powerapps.microsoft.com -> Then Start a free trial.
- When the user started with a Power Apps free trial plan, then Microsoft provided with:
- Access to Office 365 like SharePoint Online, Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.
- Execute automated workflows with PowerAutomate.
- Create and run the Canvas app using the Dataverse with a wide range of more than 200 data sources.
- Connect the data with premium connectors and On-premises data.
- When the Managed environment is active with all the Power Platform applications, can create or run apps, but using that environment needs a Stand Alone license.
This is how we can use the Power Apps free trial.
PowerApps Subscription Plan
In the Power Apps subscription, we have two plans to get access to Power Apps. They are:
- Power Apps per user plan
- Power Apps per app plan
Power Apps per user plan
- Can get access to unlimited apps and unlimited Power Pages websites.
- Connect the data with premium or Standard connectors and On-premises data.
- Utilize the Dataverse with a wide range of more than 200 data sources
- Create and access custom tables by storing and managing the data.
- Execute Power Automate cloud flows (Automated, instant, scheduled flows) and Business process flows.
- When the Managed environment is active with all the Power Platform applications, can create or run apps, but using that environment needs a Stand Alone license.
- Per license capacity for Dataverse Database capacity (accrued) is 250 MB and for Dataverse File capacity (accrued) is 2GB.
- This Power Apps per user plan also includes AI Builder service with 500 service credits.
Power Apps per app plan
- Can run access through one app or one power apps portal.
- Connect the data with any premium or standard connectors and On-premises data.
- Utilize the Dataverse with a wide range of more than 200 data sources.
- Create and access custom tables by storing and managing the data.
- Execute Power Automate cloud flows (Automated, instant, scheduled flows) and Business process flows.
- When the Managed environment is active with all the Power Platform applications, can create or run apps, but using that environment needs a Stand Alone license.
- Per license capacity for Dataverse Database capacity (accrued) is 50 MB and for Dataverse File capacity (accrued) is 400MB.
- This Power Apps per user plan also includes AI Builder service with 250 service credits.
This is how we can use the Power Apps subscription plans.
Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go
Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go
- Connect the data with premium or standard connectors and On-premises data.
- Utilize the Dataverse with a wide range of more than 200 data sources and Create and access custom tables by storing and managing the data.
- Execute Power Automate cloud flows (Automated, instant, scheduled flows) and Business process flows.
- Per license capacity for Dataverse Database capacity (accrued) is 1 GB/environment and for Dataverse File capacity (accrued) is 1 GB/environment.
This is how we can use the Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go plans.
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Power Apps Use Rights
Power Apps use rights included with:
- Dynamic 365 licenses
- Dynamic 365 Enterprise licenses
- Microsoft 365 licenses
Dynamic 365 licenses
- Utilize the Dataverse with a wide range of more than 200 data sources and by 15 per app.
- Create and access custom tables by storing and managing the data.
- By using the Dynamic 365 licenses plan, can Create, Read, Update, or Delete(CRUD) the Dynamic 365 restricted tables.
- Execute Power Automate cloud flows (Automated, instant, scheduled flows) and Business process flows.
Dynamic 365 Enterprise licenses
- Can run custom apps/ Power Pages websites within the same environment as licensed Dynamic 365 applications.
- Utilize the Dataverse with a wide range of more than 200 data sources and by 15 per app
- Create and access custom tables by storing and managing the data.
- By using the Dynamic 365 licenses plan, can Create, Read, Update, or Delete(CRUD) the Dynamic 365 restricted tables.
- Execute Power Automate cloud flows (Automated, instant, scheduled flows) and Business process flows.
- When the Managed environment is active with all the Power Platform applications, can create or run apps, but using that environment needs a Stand Alone license.
Microsoft 365 licenses
- Can run only the Canvas app and run as many apps as they want up to those apps using Standard Connectors.
- Using Microsoft 365 licenses, cannot run a Model-driven app or a Portal app.
- Where both of them support Microsoft Dataverse which is a premium connector so we need premium licensing.
- Utilize the Dataverse for Teams only by storing and managing the data.
- Execute Power Automate cloud flows (Automated, instant, scheduled flows).
These are the Power Apps use rights plans for accessing Power Apps.
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Conclusion
I hope I gave enough information regarding Power Apps Licencing and Pricing. Moreover, I covered what are the different plans that we can get access to PowerApps.
Preeti Sahu is an expert in Power Apps and has more than 6 years of experience working with SharePoint and the Power Platform. As a Power Platform expert for Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages, she is currently employed with TSinfo Technologies. She is the author of the book Microsoft Power Platform A Deep Dive. She also made a big technical contribution to SharePointDotNet.com in the form of articles on the Power Platform. She enjoys traveling and spending time with her family in her spare time.