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Stop paying Power BI Pro for people who only read reports. Keep it for the people who build them.

Lakevisor is a report portal that runs in your own Azure tenant and reads straight from your Fabric Warehouse or Lakehouse. Your viewers sign in with their work account. No Pro licence each.

FIG 01 · Illustrative portal with sample data. Not a client.

$14Pro list price per user per month since April 2025
≈445viewers before F64 reserved beats Pro (West Europe)
0Power BI API calls from the portal, by design
01 · THE PROBLEM

Below F64, every person who opens a Power BI report needs a Pro licence. Including the ones who just look.

YEARLY COST FOR 250 VIEWERS · EUR, EST.
Pro × 250€36,300
F64 reserved€64,536
Lakevisor€10,920

Pro at €12.10 (Microsoft Spain list). F64 at €5,378/mo reserved, West Europe. Lakevisor at the Professional plan plus about €20/mo Azure hosting. F64 bar clipped.

  1. Viewers are most of the billIn a typical company most Power BI users consume reports and never edit one.
  2. Sharing tricks do not helpMicrosoft says multiplexing does not reduce the number of licences you need.
  3. F64 is a cliff, not a rampIt only pays off at roughly 445 viewers or more. Between 75 and 450 viewers you are stuck in the expensive middle.
02 · HOW IT WORKS

The logic of your semantic model. Without a Power BI licence for every reader.

We rebuild what your semantic model does: the measures, the relationships, the business rules and the KPI definitions your teams already agree on. Each night a job applies that logic to your Warehouse or Lakehouse and publishes the results to a portal in your Azure. Viewers see the same numbers they see in Power BI today, and nobody needs a Pro licence just to read them.

Warehouse / LakehouseFABRIC · YOUR TENANT Your model logicMEASURES · RULES · KPIs Portal in your AzureSTATIC WEB APPS ViewersENTRA ID · NO PRO LICENCE SAME KPIs AS YOUR SEMANTIC MODEL · RECONCILED BEFORE GO-LIVE
48 HOURS

Diagnose

A read-only script splits creators from viewers. You get the number in writing.

WEEKS 1 TO 3

Rebuild

Viewer reports are rebuilt as interactive web pages. Your DAX measures and model rules are carried over to SQL.

BEFORE GO-LIVE

Reconcile

Every figure is checked against the current report. Nobody switches until it matches.

EVERY MONTH

Run

Scheduled refresh, monitoring and small changes included in the plan.

03 · YOUR NUMBERS

What your viewers cost today, and what they would cost on Lakevisor.

250
12.10

Plans used: up to 100 viewers 390, up to 300 viewers 890, up to 1,000 viewers 1,490 per month (EUR, indicative). USD plans converted at 1.08 and rounded. Plus about 20 a month of Azure hosting.

ESTIMATED YEARLY SAVING
€25,380
Pro for viewers today
Lakevisor plan and hosting
Payback of a starter migration

04 · LICENSING AND SECURITY

Written so your licensing lead and your data team can sign it off.

Multiplexing does not reduce the number of licenses needed.Microsoft Power BI licensing documentation. Lakevisor is built around this rule, not around a loophole.

No multiplexing

The portal reads the Warehouse or Lakehouse, never the semantic model or any Power BI API. Every deployment ships with a signed lineage diagram.

Your tenant

Code, extract and portal live in your Azure subscription. Data does not pass through us, and if we part ways you keep everything.

Your identity

Sign-in with Microsoft Entra ID. Row-level access follows the Entra groups you already manage.

GDPR

A data processing agreement under article 28. Region and retention follow your own Azure policies.

05 · FAIR QUESTIONS

What people ask before they switch.

Is this really allowed?

Yes, as long as the portal does not serve Power BI content. Lakevisor reads the same source data your models read, so viewers never consume Power BI. You stay responsible for your licensing, and we document the lineage in writing.

Are we replacing Power BI?

No. Analysts keep Power BI and their licences. Lakevisor only serves people who read finished reports.

What if the numbers do not match?

Nobody moves until every figure reconciles with the current report. If the pilot does not match, it costs you nothing.

We have Microsoft 365 E5. Should we talk?

Probably not. E5 already includes Pro, so there is nothing to save on licences, and the diagnosis will say so.

Will viewers need training?

They sign in with their work account and open a web page. Filters and drill-downs behave as they expect.

06 · PRICING · INDICATIVE

One migration, then a flat monthly plan.

BASIC
€390 /mo
Up to 100 viewers
  • 2 small changes a month
  • Pays off from about 33 viewers
PROFESSIONAL
€890 /mo
Up to 300 viewers
  • 4 changes a month
  • Pays off from about 74 viewers
ENTERPRISE
€1,490 /mo
Up to 1,000 viewers
  • 6 changes a month
  • Next business day response
Migration from €3,500 (up to 5 reports) or €6,500 (up to 12). Annual contract, then monthly.Estimates. The final quote follows the diagnosis.
START HERE

Know what your viewers really cost in 48 hours.

Run one read-only script on your licence and activity inventory. You get a written report: who creates, who only reads, and what you would save. If the answer is that you should not switch, that is what it will say.

Book the free diagnosis →
Free diagnosisRead-only. No access to your data.
Pilot at our riskIf figures do not reconcile, you pay nothing.
Savings guaranteeYear one net saving under 40% of today's viewer cost: we refund the migration.