Each Power BI Premium capacity subscription retires at the end of its current agreement, and there is no automatic migration. P1 maps to F64, but F SKUs bill through Azure, can pause, and only F64 and above let free users view reports. The mapping, the 30/90-day cliff, the cost math and the right-sizing most teams skip.
Microsoft stopped selling Power BI Premium per-capacity SKUs (P1 to P5) to new customers in July 2024. Existing subscriptions retire at the end of their current agreement term; Enterprise and Microsoft Cloud Agreement customers cannot add or renew P capacity. The replacement is a Microsoft Fabric F SKU, bought in Azure. Premium Per User licences are not affected.
From Microsoft's Power BI Premium to Fabric migration FAQ.
Migration is manual: buy the F capacity, reassign each workspace, validate, then cancel the P SKU. In that order. Same-region reassignment of standard Power BI items has no downtime beyond interrupted refreshes.
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Fabric prices vary by Azure region; reservations save about 41% against pay-as-you-go.
Free viewers only work on F64 and above. On F2 to F32, every viewer needs a Pro ($14 a month since April 2025) or PPU ($24) licence. This single rule decides most sizing: if hundreds of people view reports, F64 is often cheaper than licensing them.
F SKUs can pause and scale. Development and test capacities that sit idle overnight should be paused or on a smaller SKU.
There is no Autoscale on F SKUs. Plan headroom or scale on a schedule instead.
Power BI Embedded is included in every F SKU, so separate EM or A SKUs can go.
Power BI Report Server rights now come with a Fabric reservation or SQL Server Enterprise with Software Assurance. Check this before cancelling the P SKU if you run Report Server.
Run the Fabric Capacity Metrics app against the P capacity for 30 to 45 days. Many P1 capacities run far below their limit outside a few refresh windows; those are candidates for a smaller F SKU for authors plus Pro licences, or for moving heavy refreshes off peak. Capacities near 100% need F64 or more, and adding new Fabric workloads (lakehouses, notebooks) on top will need more still.
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