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How much does Power BI cost?
Licenses, consulting and our prices.

Straight answers for finance leaders: what Microsoft charges for Power BI, what drives the cost of building it, and our published fixed-fee prices. One price, agreed before work starts. No hourly billing.

Prices published
Fixed fee, quoted up front
You own everything
Our starting prices
Free assessment
$0 · 30 minutes
then
BI Blueprint™
$7,500 fixed · 3–4 weeks
then
Build, fixed price
Dashboards from $20KWarehouse + BI from $60K

What Microsoft charges for Power BI

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Power BI Desktop: free

The tool used to build reports is free to download. On its own, though, it can’t share reports with your team.

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Power BI Pro: $14 per user/month

Needed by everyone who publishes or views shared reports. Billed annually. For most companies under 100 report users, this is the whole licensing bill.

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Premium Per User: $24 per user/month

Adds larger data models, more frequent refreshes and advanced features. Worth it only if Pro limits get in the way.

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Many viewers, few builders

When hundreds of people only need to view reports, Microsoft’s capacity licensing can cost less than per-user licenses. We size this with you during the assessment.

Microsoft list prices in USD, last changed April 1, 2025. Licenses are billed by Microsoft directly to you. We don’t resell or mark them up.

What Nexus Data Works charges

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Every price is fixed and agreed in writing before work starts. If something takes us longer than planned, that’s on us. Any change you ask for is scoped and priced before it’s built.

Four things that move a Power BI project up or down

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How many systems

One accounting system is simple. An ERP plus a CRM, payroll and spreadsheets needs a warehouse to tie them together. This is the biggest cost driver.

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How clean the data is

Duplicate customers, inconsistent job codes or years of manual adjustments take time to fix. We find out during the assessment, not halfway through the build.

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Agreeing on definitions

If finance and operations calculate margin differently, someone has to settle it. We settle it once, in writing, so the dashboard shows one number.

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Who sees what

Security by role, entity or region adds work, but keeps each person seeing only their own numbers.

Power BI cost questions

How much does Power BI cost per month? +
Power BI Pro is $14 per user per month and Premium Per User is $24 per user per month, both billed annually. Power BI Desktop, the tool used to build reports, is free. Prices are Microsoft list prices in USD.
How much does a Power BI consultant cost in Dallas? +
Published Dallas–Fort Worth pricing guides put independent Power BI consultants at roughly $150–$250 an hour, and a single fixed-fee dashboard at about $15,000–$40,000. We don’t bill hourly. Our Blueprint is $7,500 fixed, dashboard builds start at $20,000 and warehouse projects at $60,000.
Why fixed fee instead of hourly? +
Hourly billing rewards taking longer. A fixed price, agreed before work starts, puts the risk of overruns on us and lets you budget with certainty.
What is not included in your price? +
Microsoft licenses and Azure running costs, which Microsoft bills directly to you. Where a data connector is needed for your ERP, its license (often around $1,000 a year) is also paid directly to the vendor.
How do I get an exact price? +
Book the free 30-minute assessment. If a project makes sense, the Blueprint or audit ends with a fixed build price in writing, and its fee is applied to your build if you start within 60 days.
Who owns the dashboards and the data? +
You do. Everything is built in your own Microsoft account, with documentation. If we stop working together, nothing has to move.

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for your reporting.

Thirty minutes on Zoom with a senior consultant. We look at your systems, how your reports get built today and where the numbers don't reconcile. Within one business day you get a one-page summary: whether you need a data warehouse, and the 2–3 steps worth doing first. No pitch deck.

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