Power BI Premium features

This article lists the main Power BI Premium features. Most of the features apply to all the Power BI Premium licenses, including Premium Per User (PPU) and Power BI Embedded. When a feature only works with a specific license, the required license is indicated in the description field. If no license is listed, the feature works with any license.

Power BI Premium feature list

Feature	Description
Advanced AI	Use artificial intelligence (AI) with dataflows
Asynchronous refresh	Perform asynchronous data-refresh operations
Automatic aggregations	Optimize DirectQuery datasets
Autoscale	Automatically add compute capability when your capacity is overloaded Available for Premium only
Backup and restore	Backup and restore data using XMLA endpoints
Bring your own key (BYOK)	Use your own keys to encrypt data Available for Premium and Embedded
Dataflows	Perform in-storage computations Optimize the use of dataflows Use incremental refresh with dataflows Reference other dataflows
Datamarts	Self-service solution enabling users to store and explore data that's loaded in a fully managed database
Deployment pipelines	Manage the lifecycle of your Power BI content
DirectQuery with dataflows	Connect directly to your dataflow without having to import its data
Hybrid tables (preview)	Incremental refresh augmented with real-time data
Insights (preview)	Explore and find insights such as anomalies and trends in your reports
Model size limit	Available memory is set to: Premium - The limit of memory footprint of a single Power BI dataset; see the column Max memory per dataset in the Capacities and SKUs table Premium Per User (PPU) - See Considerations and limitations Embedded - See the column Max memory per dataset in the SKU memory and computing power table
Multi-geo	Deploy content to data centers in regions other than the home region of your tenant Available for Premium and Embedded
On-demand loading capabilities for large models	Improve report load time by loading datasets to memory on demand
Power BI Report Server	On-premises report server Available for Premium only
Refresh rate	The ability to refresh more than eight times a day
Query caching	Speed up reports by using local caching
Storage	Manage data storage
Streaming dataflows (preview)	Connect to, ingest, mash up, model, and build reports using near real-time data
Unlimited content sharing	Share Power BI content with anyone Available for Premium only
Virtual network data gateway (preview)	Connect from Microsoft Cloud to Azure using a virtual network (VNet)
XMLA read/write	Enable XMLA endpoint

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