Power Apps premium license is required only if your application utilizes some of the premium features. If not, a Microsoft 365 license will be enough.
Using a premium license, you can connect many of the premium connectors.
Few examples:
- Microsoft Dataverse
- SQL
- Custom Connector
- Azure App Service
- DocuSign
Premium License Types in PowerApps
- Per App Plan
- Per User Plan
- Pay As You Go Plan
Additional Read
Per App Plan
The Power Apps per-app plan is actually a per-user-per-app.
So, you must buy one “per App” license for each single application user and user provided with this type of license to be able to work with the Power Apps premium feature with one app for one month.
So the costs can really add up quickly. If the licenses are assigned to the app, you can’t use it for other apps, because they were already assigned.
You would instead need to buy more licenses if you want to use this kind of license for a different app.
| User | Environment 1 | Per app licenses consumed | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| User 1 | App A | App B | 2 | |
| User 2 | App A | App B | Port 2 | 3 |
| User 3 | 1 | |||
- Sharing an app with a user consumes the per app capacity
- Each user is required to have a license to run an app
For example:
100 Users want to access 1 PowerApps with premium feature.
Cost: (Number of users*Per Apps License Cost) * No of Apps
Cost: (100*$5) *1= $500/Month
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Pay As You Go Plan
This plan is something different. It is assigned to the environment, not to a User. The Pay-as-you-go plan, like the Power Apps per User/App plans allows users to utilize premium features that are a part of Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse.
The Pay-as-you-go plan is assigned to the environment, so consequently it is assigned to every app hosted on this environment. It means that every activity on each application for each user without a license will count as usage, so it will be charged.
If you will assign pay-as-you-go plan to the environment and you will create an app utilizing premium features, you will be charged $10 per each user using this app – per month. 1 application run by a user is enough to charge you $10. Here is Microsoft’s statement from their documentation:
Microsoft calculate the cost of pay as you go plan as below.
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