BI Pixie Workload in Microsoft Fabric
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Licenses

BI Pixie in Microsoft Fabric uses a bring-your-own-license model. You subscribe to BI Pixie once, and your subscription unlocks usage across the entire BI Pixie product family. This page explains the available plans, how to subscribe, and how an Enterprise agreement can include multiple isolated licenses for different business units or cost centers.

A single BI Pixie subscription covers every BI Pixie product. Whether you add Pixies through the BI Pixie item in Microsoft Fabric or through the BI Pixie subscription portal, the same subscription applies. There is no separate Fabric-only purchase.

Plans

BI Pixie offers three plans: Standard, Pro, and Enterprise. Plan features are identical regardless of how you access BI Pixie. Every plan is a flat price, sized by tracked items: a report with Pixies or a claimed semantic model, counted separately. A semantic model is claimed by its second assessment, its first optimization, or a benchmark run; the first AI Readiness score of any semantic model is always free and claims no tracked item, for up to 500 distinct semantic models per account.

On Microsoft Fabric, BI Pixie also starts free: a first AI Readiness score for each of up to 500 semantic models, one tracked report and one tracked semantic model, one benchmark run in total on your tracked semantic model, and community docs and MCP access. Scoring runs at up to 10 assessments a day. Your one tracked semantic model is the one you can reassess and optimize afterwards. The free state works on every surface, including the BI Pixie dashboard on BI Pixie Cloud within a fair-use allowance of 5,000 monthly sessions. See AI Readiness for what an AI Readiness score covers.

Plan Best for Key features
Standard Single-team production use 10 tracked items, 3 benchmark runs in total, 30-day retention, single license.
Pro Larger BI teams 50 tracked items, 100 benchmark runs per month, extended retention up to 365 days, NPS surveys and feedback, and advanced data search.
Enterprise Multiple business units or cost centers 500 tracked items on your own capacity with unlimited available, up to 1,095 days (3 years) retention, unlimited report viewers, per-business-unit licensing available, data sovereignty and self-hosted deployment available, and onboarding with the architect.

For current pricing and the full feature matrix, visit the Pricing page.

How to Subscribe

There are two supported ways to start a BI Pixie subscription:

  • Azure Marketplace SaaS offer. Subscribe through Microsoft Azure Marketplace to consolidate BI Pixie on your Azure invoice and apply existing Azure commitments (MACC/ECIF). Search for "BI Pixie" in the Azure Marketplace to find the offer.
  • BI Pixie subscription portal. Manage subscriptions, billing, and plan changes at the BI Pixie subscription portal. Choose between credit card billing (via Stripe) and Azure Marketplace billing during sign-up, and switch later if your needs change.
Enterprise: Enterprise plans are annual, tailored to your deployment, and start with a conversation with our sales team. Talk to sales to get a quote.

Once your subscription is active, any BI Pixie item in your Fabric tenant will recognize the entitlement automatically.

License Assignment Enterprise

As BI maturity grows in your organization, different teams or business units may need their own isolated view of engagement data and their own tracked-item allocation. On the Enterprise plan, your agreement can include multiple self-contained licenses so each team sees only the engagement data from their own reports.

Each license is a separately deployed estate that includes:

  • Its own tracked-item allocation.
  • Its own isolated data store, dashboard, and data residency region: telemetry written under one license is not visible to members of another license.
  • A descriptive label so you can map licenses to business units, departments, or cost centers (for example, Marketing, Sales, Finance).

Your Enterprise subscription includes one license, the Primary license. Additional division licenses are part of your Enterprise agreement; contact our sales team to add them. The Primary license is the default for any user who has not been explicitly assigned to another license, and it cannot be deleted.

Screenshot: Licenses view in the BI Pixie item on the Enterprise plan.

When to Use Multiple Licenses

  • Separate tracking by department, team, or business unit.
  • Give each group its own tracked-item allocation.
  • Ensure that members of one team cannot see telemetry generated by another team's reports.

Add a New License

  1. Click Add License at the top right of the Licenses view.
  2. In the dialog, enter:
    • Label: A descriptive name (for example, "Marketing").
    • Assigned Reports: The number of tracked items reserved for this license. The available unassigned count appears in parentheses.
  3. Click Add License. The new license appears in the list.

Edit a License

  1. Click the license card to expand it, then click Edit.
  2. Modify the label or the assigned tracked items. Each input shows an "(X available)" hint indicating the maximum you can assign.
  3. Click Save to apply, or Cancel to discard changes.

Assign Members to a License

In BI Pixie in Microsoft Fabric, the underlying team membership is governed by Microsoft Fabric workspace roles; see Team Access. License assignment binds a workspace user (identified by their Entra ID identity) to one of the licenses you have created so that BI Pixie can scope their data view.

  1. Expand a license card and click Assign Member.
  2. Pick a user from the dropdown. The dropdown shows users who have access to the workspace and who are not already on this license.
  3. Click Assign. The user immediately starts seeing data scoped to this license.

If the user is the last member on another dedicated license, a warning dialog explains that moving them will leave the source license empty and its historic telemetry inaccessible. You can confirm the move or cancel.

Delete a License

  1. Expand the license card and click Delete license at the bottom.
  2. Read the confirmation dialog. It explains that:
    • All members are moved back to the Primary license.
    • Historic telemetry stored in this license's container is permanently deleted.
    • Managed reports remain intact; members can resume tracking by updating Pixies.
  3. Click Delete License to confirm. The action cannot be undone.

Note: The Primary license cannot be deleted.

Setting Up the Dashboard for Each License

For each license, we recommend that the first assigned user installs the BI Pixie Dashboard. Once installed, the user can share the Fabric workspace with other users assigned to the same license.

Each license has its own connection parameters on the expanded license card. The installer copies them and pastes them into Power BI when wiring up the dashboard. See Set up BI Pixie Dashboard for the full walkthrough.

Per-License Dashboard Data Source

Here are the parameters and SAS Token you need to refresh the semantic model of your BI Pixie Dashboard. Each expanded license card has an inline Dashboard Data Source section with two rows: Data Lake URL and SAS Token. These parameters are scoped to the license, so engagement data stays isolated between licenses.

  • Copy and Show / Hide are available to all users assigned to the license.
  • Rotate the SAS Token (workspace admin only). Rotating one license's Token does not affect other licenses.
  • The Expires and Last rotated timestamps appear inline on the card.

When you delete a license, its credentials are invalidated. For full instructions, see Set up BI Pixie Dashboard.

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