Microsoft Power Platform

Licensing Guide

January 2023
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 Table of Contents
How to buy ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Licensing Programs ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2
How to license ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Multiplexing ................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
Licensing Requirements for External Users ............................................................................................................................ 3
Power Apps ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Power Apps..................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Power Apps per app plan ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
Power Apps per user plan ........................................................................................................................................................... 4
Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go plan............................................................................................................................... 5
Power Automate ................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Power Automate ........................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Power Automate per user plan................................................................................................................................................. 11
Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan ............................................................................................................ 11
Power Automate per flow plan ................................................................................................................................................ 11
Power Automate unattended RPA add-on .......................................................................................................................... 12
Power Automate hosted RPA add-on ................................................................................................................................... 13
Power Virtual Agents ....................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Power Pages ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 22
Power Pages authenticated users plan.................................................................................................................................. 22
Power Pages anonymous users plan...................................................................................................................................... 23
Power Platform Dataverse Capacity ........................................................................................................................................... 25
Dataverse default subscription capacity ............................................................................................................................... 25
Dataverse capacity for Power Platform pay-as-you-go environments.........................................................................26
Dataverse capacity meters ........................................................................................................................................................26
Capacity add-ons............................................................................................................................................................................... 27
Dataverse (Common Data Service) capacity ........................................................................................................................ 27
AI Builder capacity add-on ....................................................................................................................................................... 27
Power Virtual Agents capacity add-on ..................................................................................................................................29
Trial and Implementation ............................................................................................................................................................... 29
Power Platform Service Support.................................................................................................................................................. 29
Pricing .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
Appendix A: Terminology and Custom Tables ...................................................................................................................... 31
Appendix B: Dynamics 365, Microsoft/Office 365, and Windows licenses that include Power Platform
capabilities ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 33
Appendix C: Change Log ................................................................................................................................................................ 36

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 Using This Guide
Use this guide to improve your understanding of how to license Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate,
Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages.
This guide is not intended to influence the choice of Microsoft products and services. The examples
presented in this guide are illustrative. Microsoft reserves the right to review or update this document at
any time without notice.
This document applies for users with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power
Pages licenses.
To facilitate understanding of licensing requirements this guide is structured as follows:
1) How to buy 3) Capacity add-ons
2) How to license (product licensing) 4) Notes: Change log
For help determining the right technology solution for any given organization, including the license requirements
for a specific product or scenario, consult with your Microsoft account team or your Microsoft Certified Partner.
This guide does not supersede or replace any of the legal documentation covering use rights.

The latest version of this guide can be found here.

What’s new in this licensing guide

See the Change log Appendix C, for minor changes effective January 2023.

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 How to buy
Licensing Programs
Licensing programs are channels through which you can buy Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and
Power Pages licenses. You can license these Power Platform products through the Microsoft Volume Licensing (VL), Cloud
Solution Provider program (CSP), and/or Web Direct (MOSP) programs. In Volume Licensing, Power Apps, Power
Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages are available through:
• Enterprise Agreement (EA)
• Enterprise Agreement Subscription (EAS)
• Server and Cloud Enrollment (SCE)
• Enrollment for Education Solutions (under the Campus and School Agreement) (EES)
Additional channels:
• Microsoft Online Government
• Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA). More information on MPSA is available here.
• Microsoft Online Subscription Program (Web Direct/MOSP)

For more information on Power Platform licensing channels and segment availability, refer to the Product Terms.

Participating in a Volume Licensing program typically involves signing an agreement and/or enrollment, meeting a
minimum purchase requirement, and ordering licenses through a Microsoft reseller. Visit the Microsoft Volume Licensing
website to learn more about how to buy through Volume Licensing, find a reseller partner, and more helpful information.

How to license
Multiplexing
Multiplexing refers to the use of hardware or software that a customer uses to pool connections, reroute information, or
reduce the number of users that directly access or use the with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and
Power Pages services. Multiplexing does NOT reduce the number of subscription licenses of any type required to access
the Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages apps. Any user or device that accesses Power
Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages apps, directly or indirectly must be properly licensed.
Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages services can only be accessed with Power Apps,
Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages licenses. Similarly, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual
Agents and Power Pages, licenses are required for users that input data into, query, or view data from the Power Apps,
Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages apps through a pooling device. With Power Platform services,
pooled connections use a non-interactive user account that can access the system but only via the web service layer.
Internal users accessing Power Platform services indirectly through a portal or via an API to a separate service such as
Microsoft Outlook must also be properly licensed, regardless of whether they are set up as a Power Apps, Power
Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages user in the app, for example:
• Internal users that access Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages services must still
be properly licensed for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages.
• Any user that accesses Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages services made
available through an automated process requires a Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and
Power Pages license.

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 • The number of tiers of hardware or software between with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents
and Power Pages apps and the users or devices that ultimately use Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual
Agents and Power Pages services indirectly does not affect the number of User SLs required.
For additional information about multiplexing refer to the Microsoft Multiplexing Overview.

Licensing Requirements for External Users

External users must be appropriately licensed to access Power Platform services and data. Applicable licensing includes:
• An appropriate Power Platform User SL
• Seeded licensing capabilities from Dynamics 365, Office 365 or Windows licenses
• Power Apps portals login or page view capacity
• Accessing via an appropriately licensed Power Automate per flow workflow
Users must be appropriately licensed whether they are accessing directly or indirectly per multiplexing guidelines.

For additional information on external guest user access please see here.

Power Apps
Power Apps
Service Overview
Power Apps is a low code/no code application platform that allows enterprises to
digitize business operations by easily building line of business applications and
customizing existing Dynamics 365 and Microsoft/Office 365 applications. For more
details, please visit https://powerapps.microsoft.com/.

Licensing overview
General purpose, full Power Apps capabilities are licensed on a standalone basis. Additionally, limited Power Apps
capabilities are included within select Dynamics 365 and Microsoft/Office 365 licenses. For more information, please see
the sections titled Power Apps use rights included with Dynamics 365 licenses and Power Apps use rights included with
Microsoft/Office 365 licenses later in this document.
High-level overview of the licensing structure is provided below.
Per user, per app Per user
Licensing scheme Per user, per app Per user

Allows individual users to run applications1

Equips users to run unlimited applications
Description for a specific business scenario based on the
based on the full capabilities of Power Apps
full capabilities of Power Apps
1
Each license allows end user to run 1 custom app or access 1 website.

Standalone Power Apps plans

Customers that need general purpose and full capabilities of the platform should license Power Apps on a standalone
basis. Licensing is supported on both a “per user, per app” basis and a “per user” basis. Both standalone licenses are fully
featured. Details follow.

Power Apps per app plan

The Power Apps per app plan allows organizations to get started with the platform at a lower entry point. Customers on
the per app plan typically start with 1-2 leading use case scenarios before adopting the platform more broadly. The Power
Apps per app plan is an attractive licensing option for licensing end users that run only a few apps and/or access only a
few websites.
The Power Apps per app plan allows individual users to run 1 custom application (be it canvas or model) or access 1
custom website based on the full capabilities of Power Apps.
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 Per user, per app offer summary
SKU Name Power Apps per app plan
License type Per user license
License assignment In product
Are licenses stackable? Yes

Note:
• Embedded canvas apps within a model-driven app will not count towards the one-app limit.
• A single user might be covered by multiple ‘per app’ licenses to allow the user to use multiple solutions targeted
at various business scenarios, without requiring a per user license.
• Once a pool of Power Apps per app licenses is purchased, individual licenses need to be assigned to specific
environments and to individual users (i.e., if the same app or website exists in two environments, a user will
require two per app User SLs to access both).
• The Power Apps per app plan is available to qualified education customers under faculty and student pricing.
Since these licenses are sold as tenant level capacity and are not assigned to users in Active Directory, customers
and partners will be responsible for ensuring that student pricing is applied to students only. When licenses are
purchased with student pricing, the number of app licenses assigned to nonstudents (i.e., faculty) may not exceed
the number of faculty licenses purchased, as this would indicate that student licenses have been assigned to
faculty.

Entitlement Summary for Power Apps per app license

Power Apps
Plans and capabilities
per app plan
Custom apps / websites Run one custom app (canvas or model driven), or access one website 1 app or website
Standard connectors ⚫

Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors ⚫

On premises data gateway ⚫

Utilize Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) ⚫

Store and manage data Create and access custom tables (includes complex tables) 1
⚫

Dynamics 365 restricted tables access2 Read only

Managed Environments Run apps in a Managed Environment. Manage Power Platform at scale.3 ⚫

Cloud flows (Automated, instant, and scheduled flows) 4

Execute flows Within app context

Business process flows
Dataverse Database capacity5 50 MB
Per license capacity
Dataverse File capacity 5
400 MB
AI Builder AI Builder service credits 6
250 credits
1
For exceptions to Dynamics 365 Field Service use rights for Power Apps users, refer to the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.
2
For a full list of restricted tables and exceptions for Case tables, see Restricted tables requiring Dynamics 365 licenses.
3
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
4
Power Automate use rights included with Power Apps standalone plans do not include desktop flow functionality, which requires a separate purchase of
the Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan.
5
Dataverse Database and Dataverse File capacity entitlements are accrued at the tenant level.
6
Cap on accrued capacity: 1,000,000 credits. For more AI Builder service credits, use the AI Builder capacity add-on.
Please see http://aka.ms/platformlimits for details.

Power Apps per user plan

The Power Apps per user plan allows licensed users to run unlimited custom applications and access unlimited websites
based on the full capabilities of Power Apps.

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 Per user offer summary
SKU Name Power Apps per user plan
License type User license

Entitlement Summary for Power Apps per user license

Power Apps
Plans and capabilities
per user plan
Run custom apps (both canvas and model driven) Unlimited
Custom apps / websites
Access websites Unlimited
Standard connectors ⚫

Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors ⚫

On premises data gateway ⚫

Utilize Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) ⚫

Store and manage data Create and access custom tables (includes complex tables)1 ⚫

Dynamics 365 restricted tables access 2

Read only
Managed Environments Run apps in a Managed Environment. Manage Power Platform at scale. 3
⚫

Cloud flows (Automated, instant, and scheduled flows) 4

Execute flows Within app context

Business process flows
Dataverse Database capacity5 250 MB
Per license capacity
Dataverse File capacity 5
2 GB
AI Builder AI Builder service credits6 500 credits
1
For exceptions to Dynamics 365 Field Service use rights for Power Apps users, refer to the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.
2
For a full list of restricted tables and exceptions for Case tables, see Restricted tables requiring Dynamics 365 licenses.
3
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
4
Power Automate use rights included with Power Apps standalone plans do not include RPA functionality, which requires a separate purchase of Power
Automate per user with attended RPA plan.
5
Dataverse Database and Dataverse File capacity entitlements are accrued at the tenant level. Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.
6
Cap on accrued capacity: 1,000,000 credits. For more AI Builder service credits, use the AI Builder capacity add-on.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go plan

The Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go plan enables individual users to run one custom application based on the full
capabilities of Power Apps.

Power apps per app pay-as-you-go offer summary

SKU Name Power Apps Per App Active User-1
Meter name Power Apps per app meter

Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go meter definition: A measure of the number of unique, active users who open a single
pay-as-you-go enabled app in an environment one or more times in a month.

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 Entitlement Summary for Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go meter
Power Apps
Plans and capabilities per app pay-as-you-
go plan
Custom apps Run one custom app (canvas or model driven) 1 app
Standard connectors ⚫

Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors ⚫

On premises data gateway ⚫

Utilize Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) ⚫

Store and manage data Create and access custom tables (includes complex tables) 1
⚫

Dynamics 365 restricted tables access 2

Read only
Cloud flows (Automated, instant, and scheduled flows) 3

Execute flows Within app context

Business process flows
Managed Environments Run apps in a Managed Environment. Manage Power Platform at scale4

1 GB per pay-as-you-
Dataverse Database capacity5
go environment
Per license capacity
1 GB per pay-as-you-
Dataverse File capacity5
go environment
AI Builder AI Builder service credits
1
For exceptions to Dynamics 365 Field Service use rights for Power Apps users, refer to the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.
2
For a full list of restricted tables and exceptions for Case tables, see Restricted tables requiring Dynamics 365 licenses.
3
Power Automate use rights included with Power Apps standalone plans do not include RPA functionality, which requires a separate purchase of Power
Automate per user with attended RPA plan.
4
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
5
Dataverse Database, File and Log capacity are available with pay-as-you-go as alternatives to the existing capacity add-ons for overages, above and
beyond the standard entitlement of 1GB of Dataverse Database and 1GB of Dataverse File storage for each pay-as-you-go environment. With these
meters customers simply pay for the amount of storage they use rather than purchasing add-on licenses in advance. Please see Pay-as-you-go meters -
Power Platform for more information.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Apps use rights included with Dynamics 365 licenses

Limited Power Apps use rights are included within the same environment(s) as the licensed Dynamics 365 application(s) to
allow users to customize and extend Dynamics 365 applications. Use of Power Apps capabilities included with Dynamics
365 licenses must be only within the context of the licensed Dynamics 365 application. Further, the specific use rights vary
by Dynamics 365 license type.

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 Power Apps use rights with Dynamics 365 applications
Dynamics 365 Dynamics 365 Enterprise
Capabilities
Applications1 Applications2
Within same environment(s) as
Run standalone apps (canvas/model driven) licensed Dynamics 365
Custom apps / websites application(s)3
Within same environment(s) as
Access websites licensed Dynamics 365
application(s)
Standard connectors ⚫ ⚫

Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors ⚫ ⚫

⚫ ⚫
On premises data gateway
Utilize Dataverse
⚫ ⚫
(formerly Common Data Service)
Create and access custom tables 15 per application ⚫
Store and manage data
Create, read,
Dynamics 365 restricted tables use rights update, delete CRUD
(CRUD)
Run apps in a Managed Environment. Manage
Managed Environments ⚫
Power Platform at scale4
Cloud flows (Automated, instant, and scheduled
flows)
Execute flows Within app context Within app context
Business process flows

AI Builder AI Builder capacity add-on $ $

1
Dynamics 365 Sales Professional, Dynamics 365 Customer Service Professional, Dynamics 365 Team Members, Dynamics 365 Operations – Activity,
Dynamics 365 Human Resources Self-Service, Dynamics 365 Business Central Team Members
2
Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise, Dynamics 365 Sales Premium, Dynamics 365 Customer Service Enterprise, Dynamics 365 Field Service, Dynamics 365
Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Dynamics 365 Commerce, Dynamics 365 Human Resources,
Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management
3
For Finance, Supply Chain Management, and Commerce, the Dynamics 365 environment is defined as the environment that the dual write feature is
configured against. For Business Central the Dynamics 365 environment is defined as an environment that includes one or more Power Apps that
integrate with Business Central.
4
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Apps use rights included with Microsoft/Office 365 licenses

Limited Power Apps use rights are included with select Microsoft/Office 365 licenses to allow users to customize and
extend Microsoft/Office 365 for productivity scenarios, and to deliver a comprehensive low-code extensibility platform for
Microsoft Teams. For a complete list of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 and licenses that include Power Apps and Dataverse
for Teams use rights, please refer to Appendix B.

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 Power Apps use rights with Office 365 licenses
Capabilities Office 365
Run custom apps (canvas apps) Unlimited
Custom apps / websites Run custom apps (model driven apps)
Access custom websites
Standard connectors ⚫

Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors 1

On premises data gateway

Utilize Dataverse for Teams Select O365

(use for apps in Teams only)2,3,4 licenses
Store and manage data
Utilize Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service)
Create and access custom tables (includes complex tables)
Managed Environments Run apps in a Managed Environment. Manage Power Platform at scale5
Execute flows Power Automate use rights (See Power Automate with M/O365 section) ⚫

Dataverse Database capacity6

Per license capacity
Dataverse File capacity6
1
Customers can publish their Azure backend service as APIs and export these APIs to the Power Platform as custom connectors via Azure API
Management. Customers with eligible M/O365 licenses that include Dataverse for Teams can use these connectors for custom applications, flows, and
chatbots running in Teams and to connect Azure backend services, not on-premises or 3rd party clouds. Please see Azure API Management page and
technical documentation here.
2
Dataverse for Teams is a built-in flexible datastore that provides data storage and a one-click solution for app deployment in Teams. For a complete list
of M/O365 licenses that include Dataverse for Teams use rights, please refer to Appendix B.
3
Each Dataverse for Teams environment uniquely maps (1:1) to a Teams team and can store up to 1,000,000 records based on typical usage. Please refer
to the public link here for the details on Dataverse for Teams capacity and service limits.
4
Dataverse for Teams does not grant additional entitlements with standalone Power Platform licenses but supports premium functionality that comes
with the corresponding license. Example: In a given Dataverse for Teams environment, accessing premium connectors in the context of an app requires
all users accessing the app to be licensed either with the Power Apps per app or Power Apps per user or Power Apps pay-as-you-go plans depending on
the customer scenario/needs.
5
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
6
Dataverse Database and Dataverse File capacity entitlements are pooled at the tenant level.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Summary of all Power Apps use rights

Power Apps per app pay-
Power Apps subscription plans Power Apps use rights included with:
as-you-go meter

Power Apps
Power Apps Power Apps
Plans and capabilities per app meter Select
per app plan per user plan Select
Select D365 D365
$10 per M/O365
$5 per $20 per licenses1 Enterprise
active user/ licenses
user/month user/month licenses1
app/month

Unlimited Within
Run custom apps 1 app or same Unlimited
apps
Run custom environ. as
apps / 1 app licensed
websites 1 custom Unlimited D365
Run custom websites
website websites application
s
Standard connectors ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
Connect to
your data Premium and custom
⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
connectors

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 On premises data
⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
gateway
Dataverse
Utilize Dataverse ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ for Teams
only
Store and
Create and access
manage data ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ 15 per app ⚫
custom tables2
D365 restricted
Read only Read only Read only (CRUD) (CRUD)
tables access3
Run apps in a
Managed Managed
⚫ ⚫ ⚫
Environments Environment.
Manage at scale.4
Cloud flows
(Automated, instant,
and scheduled Within app Within app Within app Within app Within app
Execute flows
flows)5 context context context context context
Business process
flows
Dataverse Database 1
50 MB6 250 MB6 $ $
Per license capacity (accrued) GB/environment7
capacity Dataverse File 1
400 MB6 2 GB6
capacity (accrued) GB/environment7
AI Builder service
AI Builder 250 credits 500 credits
credits8
1
Use of Power Apps capabilities included with Dynamics 365 licenses must be only within the context of the licensed Dynamics 365 application.
2
For exceptions to Dynamics 365 Field Service use rights for Power Apps users, refer to the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.
3
For a full list of restricted tables and exceptions for Case tables, see Restricted tables requiring Dynamics 365 licenses.
4
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
5
Power Automate use rights included with Power Apps standalone plans do not include RPA functionality, which requires a separate purchase of the
Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan.
6
Dataverse Database and Database File capacity entitlements are pooled at the tenant level.
7
Dataverse Database and Dataverse File capacity are applied to each environment with pay-as-you-go billing enabled and are not granted for each
monthly active user.
8
Cap on accrued capacity: 1,000,000 credits. If more service credits are needed, use the AI Builder capacity add-on.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Automate
Power Automate
Service Overview
Power Automate allows enterprises to implement automated workflows and business processes
and achieve operational efficiencies. For more details, please visit
https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/.

Licensing overview
General purpose Power Automate capabilities are available on a standalone basis. Limited Power Automate capabilities are
also included within Power Apps, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft/Office 365 and Windows licenses. For more information,
please see the sections titled Power Automate use rights included with Power Apps/Dynamics 365/Office 365/Windows
licenses later in this document.
A high-level overview of the licensing structure is provided below.

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 Per user with
Power Automate Per user Per flow
attended RPA
Per flow
Licensing scheme Per user Per user (Minimum initial purchase requirement of 5
flows)
Allows licensed user
Allows licensed user to create and run
to create and run unlimited cloud flows
unlimited cloud using DPA, plus
Allows users within an organization to
flows and automate automate legacy
Description implement cloud flows using DPA with
cloud apps, services apps on a desktop
reserved capacity.
and data with Digital through Robotic
Process Automation Process Automation
(DPA). (RPA) in attended
mode, and AI.

Standalone Power Automate plans

Customers that need full-fledged, general-purpose workflow, business process automation, RPA or DPA capabilities,
should consider purchasing standalone Power Automate plans. Licensing is supported on both a “per user” basis as well as
a “per flow” basis. All standalone plans include the full capabilities of Power Automate with the exception of RPA
functionality which is only included in Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan, the Power Automate unattended
RPA add-on and the Power Automate hosted RPA add-on.

Power Automate plans and capabilities

Power Automate Power Automate

Power Automate per user with per flow plan
Plans and Capabilities
per user plan attended RPA (min. initial
plan purchase 5 units)

Cloud flows (Automated, instant, and

⚫ ⚫ ⚫
scheduled flows)

Execute flows1 Business process flows ⚫ ⚫ ⚫

Attended desktop flows ⚫

Unattended desktop flows2 $ $

Visualize and analyze

Process advisor ⚫ ⚫
processes

Share and collaborate Applies to flows included in the license ⚫ ⚫

Standard connectors ⚫ ⚫ ⚫

Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors ⚫ ⚫3 ⚫

On premises data gateway ⚫ ⚫ ⚫

Run flows in a Managed Environment.

Managed Environments ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
Manage Power Platform at scale.4
Store and manage data Dataverse use rights ⚫ ⚫ ⚫

Enterprise management
Applies to flows included ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
and security
Dataverse Database capacity 250MB5 250MB5 50MB5
Per license capacity
Dataverse File Capacity 2GB5 2GB5 200MB5

AI Builder AI Builder service credit6 $ 5,000 $

1
See technical documentation for definitions of each flow type.
2
Unattended RPA scenarios require the Power Automate unattended RPA add-on or Power Automate hosted RPA add-on which can be purchased
separately. Qualifying base licenses: Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan or Power Automate per flow plan. Multiple unattended RPA add-
ons can be applied against a single qualifying base license. Concurrent instances of a singular process require an additional unattended bot for each

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 instance.
3
Desktop flow connector included (This desktop flow connector is not included in Windows licenses).
4
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
5
Dataverse Database and Dataverse File subscription capacity is accrued at the tenant level. Additional Dataverse Database, Dataverse File and Dataverse
Log subscription capacity can be purchased in increments of 1GB.
6
Additional AI Builder capacity can be purchased per 1M service credits for $500/month.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Automate per user plan

The Power Automate per user plan equips individual users to create and run unlimited workflows and business processes
based on their unique needs. The per user plan is intended to support the broad adoption of an automation culture in an
organization. Should the entire organization be licensed with the Power Automate per user plan, admins will have minimal
overhead with tracking how many flows are being activated and used within the organization.

Per user offer details

SKU Name Power Automate per user plan
Enabled flows Unlimited
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan

The Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan spans legacy and modern applications, allowing the licensed user to
create and run unlimited flows using DPA, plus automate legacy applications with desktop flows through Robotic Process
Automation (RPA) in attended mode and AI. This plan builds on the Power Automate per user plan with the ability for a
user to run an attended RPA bot on their workstation. Additionally, the per user with attended RPA plan includes access to
AI Builder capacity in support of scenarios like forms processing, object detection, prediction, text classification and
recognition, and more.
Please note running an RPA bot in an unattended scenario requires the addition of the Power Automate unattended RPA
add-on or Power Automate hosted RPA add-on; learn more.

Per user with attended RPA offer details

SKU Name Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan
Execute Flows1 (Automated, instant, scheduled,
Unlimited
and business process flows)

Desktop flows (with attended RPA bots)2 1 bot

Included AI Builder service credits 5,000/month

1
See technical documentation for definitions of each flow type.
2
Multiple desktop flows may be authored/recorded for the RPA bot to execute. However, a bot can only execute one discrete desktop flow (i.e.,
process) at a time. Multiple processes must be serialized to run sequentially.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Note:
• Desktop flow authoring, bot orchestration and management are included in the offer.
• The bot must operate concurrently with the user on the same workstation; the bot can run more than one discrete
process (desktop flows), but each process must be serialized to run sequentially.
• Additional AI Builder capacity can be purchased per 1M service credits for $500/month; AI Builder service credit
capacity is pooled at the tenant level.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Automate per flow plan

The Power Automate per flow plan is licensed by flow and allows customers to implement critical business processes with
capacity that serves teams, departments, or the entire organization without individually licensing each end user that
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 triggers the licensed flow.
Power Automate per flow plan is great for departmental scenarios where typically, one power user sets up a flow and
shares the same with the broader group. This plan alleviates the need to license each end user that
knowingly/unknowingly triggers execution of the licensed flow.

Per flow offer details

SKU Name Power Automate per flow plan
Minimum initial purchase 5 units

Note:
• All types of enabled top-level flows need to be licensed (scheduled flows, automated flows, instant flows, and
business process flows). Flows that are only used as “child” flows (triggered by another flow) do not need to be
additionally licensed.
• Should customers wish to license more top-level flows, they should purchase more units of the “Power Automate
per flow plan.”
Should customers only wish to license more usage capacity for currently licensed flows, they can purchase the “Power
Platform Requests add-on” license.
Note: scheduled flows may be configured to trigger every minute, irrespective of license type. There are no limits on the
frequency of flow runs beyond what the connector supports.

Power Automate unattended RPA add-on

The Power Automate unattended RPA add-on extends desktop-based automation by enabling a bot to run autonomously,
i.e., independent of a user. Unattended bots can be deployed on a local, remote desktop, or other virtualized environment.
The Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan or Power Automate per flow plan are qualifying base licenses for
the unattended RPA add-on. Multiple unattended RPA add-on licenses can be added with a single qualifying base license.
Note, the Power Automate unattended RPA add-on is licensed by bot. Concurrent instances of a singular process require
an additional unattended bot for each instance.

Power Automate unattended RPA add-on

SKU Name Power Automate unattended RPA add-on
Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan or Power Automate per
Qualifying base licenses
flow plan

Included AI Builder service credits 5,000/month

Any software automated with an unattended bot may require additional

licensing per software terms. For example, unattended RPA scenarios
Additional licensing may be required
incorporating M/O365 require the Microsoft 365 - Unattended License.
Please see the Product Terms for more information.

Note:
• One unattended RPA add-on license includes the rights to one unattended RPA bot, as well as all necessary
functions tied to desktop flow authoring, bot orchestration and management.
• Running the unattended RPA bot in a VM requires the separate purchase of any necessary compute resources.
• Additional AI Builder capacity can be purchased per 1M service credits for $500/month; AI Builder service credit
capacity is pooled at the tenant level.
• Any services or applications the unattended bot accesses must be licensed separately. For instance, if the bot is
accessing Windows or Office, the Microsoft 365 – Unattended License must also be purchased in addition to the
Power Automate unattended RPA add-on.

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 Power Automate hosted RPA add-on
Hosted RPA extends desktop-based automation by enabling a bot to run autonomously, i.e., independent of a user.
Unattended bots can be deployed on a virtualized machine or in a virtualized environment. Each hosted RPA add-on
provides capacity for a single Microsoft-hosted bot machine. The Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan or the
Power Automate per flow plan are qualifying base licenses for the hosted RPA add-on. Multiple hosted RPA add-on
licenses can be added with a single qualifying base license.
Note: Power Automate hosted RPA is licensed by bot. Concurrent instances of a singular process require an additional
unattended bot for each instance.

Power Automate hosted RPA add-on

SKU Name Power Automate hosted RPA add-on

Qualifying base licenses Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan or Power Automate per flow plan
Included AI Builder service 5,000/month
credits Any software automated with an unattended bot may require additional licensing per
Additional licensing may be
software terms. For example, unattended RPA scenarios incorporating M/O365 require the
required
Microsoft 365 - Unattended License. Please see the Product Terms for more information.
Note:
• One hosted RPA add-on license includes the rights to one hosted RPA bot plus hosting services, and necessary
functions tied to desktop flow authoring, bot orchestration and management.
• Additional AI Builder capacity can be purchased per 1M service credits for $500/month; AI Builder service credit
capacity is pooled at the tenant level.
• Any services or applications the unattended bot accesses must be licensed separately. For instance, if the bot is
accessing Windows or Office, the Microsoft 365 – Unattended License must also be purchased in addition to the
Power Automate unattended RPA add-on.

Power Automate use rights included with Power Apps licenses

Power Apps licenses (the Power Apps per app plan, the Power Apps per user plan and the Power Apps pay-as-you-go
plan) include Power Automate use rights for the purpose of automating workflows associated with the Power Apps
application(s).
Power Automate use within Power Apps is limited to the context of the Power Apps application. What this means is that
for both triggers and actions, flows included within a Power Apps application connect to:
• Any data source within the use rights of the Power Apps application.
• Directly with the Power Apps application (via built in trigger/action).

If the flow is isolated and has nothing to do with the Power Apps application, then standalone Power Automate licenses
will need to be purchased.

Example of Power Automate use within Power Apps application context

A user with a standalone Power Apps license runs an app that uses SQL database as the data source and includes flows
that:
• Read from OR write to SQL database.
• Use a built-in Power Apps trigger and/or action – e.g., send a push notification to the app.

Example of Power Automate use outside of Power Apps application context

The same user (in the example above) now also wants to use a flow that updates an Oracle database, that:
• Is completely unrelated to the Power Apps app.
• Does not interact in any way with the Power Apps app (or its data sources).
This user will then require a standalone Power Automate license.

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 Power Automate use rights included with Power Apps plans

Plans and capabilities Power Apps plans

Cloud flows (Automated, instant, and

⚫
Execute flows1 scheduled flows)
Business process flows ⚫
Standard connectors ⚫
Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors ⚫
On-premises data gateway ⚫

Dataverse (formerly Common Data

Store and manage data ⚫
Service) use rights
Run flows in a Managed Environment.
Managed Environments ⚫
Manage Power Platform at scale.2

AI Builder capacity add-on

AI Builder
1
Power Automate use needs to map to the context of the embedding Power Apps application(s).
2
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Automate use rights included with Dynamics 365 licenses

Dynamics 365 licenses include Power Automate use rights for the purpose of customizing and extending Dynamics 365
application(s). Power Automate use within Dynamics 365 is limited to the context of the embedding Dynamics 365
application. For both triggers and actions, flows included within the Dynamics 365 application can connect:
• To any data source within the use rights of the Dynamics 365 application
• Directly with the Dynamics 365 application (via built in trigger/action)

If the embedded flow is not within the context of the Dynamics 365 application, then standalone Power Automate licenses
will need to be purchased.

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 Summary of Power Automate use rights with Dynamics 365 licenses
Dynamics 365 Enterprise
Plans and capabilities Dynamics 365 Applications2
Applications3
Cloud flows (Automated, instant, and
Execute flows1 scheduled flows) Within app context Within app context
Business process flows
Standard connectors ⚫ ⚫

Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors ⚫ ⚫

On-premises data gateway ⚫ ⚫

Dataverse (formerly Common Data

⚫ ⚫
Service) use rights
Store and manage Create and access custom tables 15 per application ⚫
data
Dynamics 365 restricted tables use
CRUD CRUD
rights
Managed Run flows in a Managed Environment.
⚫
Environments Manage Power Platform at scale.4

AI Builder AI Builder capacity add-on $ $

1
Power Automate use needs to map to the context of the embedding Dynamics 365 applications.
2
Dynamics 365 Sales Professional, Dynamics 365 Customer Service Professional, Dynamics 365 Team Members, Dynamics 365 Operations – Activity,
Dynamics 365 Human Resources Self-Service, Dynamics 365 Business Central Team Members
3
Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise, Dynamics 365 Sales Premium, Dynamics 365 Customer Service Enterprise, Dynamics 365 Field Service, Dynamics 365
Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Dynamics 365 Commerce, Dynamics 365 Human Resources,
Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management
4
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Automate use rights included with Microsoft/Office 365 licenses

Limited Power Automate use rights are included with select M/O365 licenses to allow users to customize and extend
M/O365 for productivity scenarios, and to deliver a comprehensive low-code extensibility platform for Microsoft Teams.
For a complete list of M/O365 licenses that include Power Automate and Dataverse for Teams use rights, please refer to
Appendix B.

Power Automate use within M/O365 is limited to the context of the embedding M/O365 application. For both triggers and
actions, flows included within the M/O365 application can connect:
• To any data source within the use rights of the M/O365 application.
• Directly with the M/O365 application (via built in trigger/action).

If the embedded flow is not within the context of the M/O365 application or if the embedded flow needs to connect to a
premium on-premises or custom data source, standalone Power Automate licenses will need to be purchased.

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 Summary of Power Automate use rights with Microsoft/Office 365 licenses
Power Automate use rights within
Plans and capabilities
M/O365 licenses
Cloud flows (Automated, instant, and scheduled flows) ⚫
Execute flows Business process flows
Desktop flows M365 Business Premium, M365 F3, E3, E5
Standard connectors ⚫
Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors1
On-premises data gateway
Utilize Dataverse for Teams
Select M/O365 licenses
(use for flows in Teams only)2,3,4
Store and manage data
Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) use rights

Run flows in a Managed Environment. Manage Power

Managed Environments
Platform at scale.5
1
Customers can publish their Azure backend service as APIs and export these APIs to the Power Platform as custom connectors via Azure API
Management. Customers with eligible M/O365 licenses that include Dataverse for Teams can use these connectors for custom applications, flows, and
chatbots running in Teams and to connect Azure backend services, not on-premises or 3rd party clouds. Please see Azure API Management page and
technical documentation here.
2
Dataverse for Teams is a built-in flexible datastore that provides data storage and a one-click solution for app deployment in Teams. For a complete list
of M/O365 licenses that include Dataverse for Teams use rights, please refer to Appendix B.
3
Each Dataverse for Teams environment uniquely maps (1:1) to a Teams team and can store up to 1,000,000 rows based on typical usage. Please refer to
the public link here for the details on Dataverse for Teams capacity and service limits.
4
Dataverse for Teams does not grant additional entitlements with standalone Power Platform licenses but supports premium functionality that comes
with the corresponding license. Example: In a given Dataverse for Teams environment, accessing premium connectors in the context of a flow requires all
users accessing the app to be licensed either by the Power Automate per user or per flow plans depending on the customer scenario/needs.
5
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Automate use rights included with Windows licenses

Limited Power Automate use rights are included with select Windows licenses to create and execute personal desktop
automation for attended RPA capabilities in Power Automate Desktop. This expands the digital workforce’s ability to
automate legacy tasks that can slow down workflows, empowering Windows users to start automating redundant and
time-consuming tasks with low-code automation through RPA. For a complete list of Windows licenses that include these
use rights, please refer to Appendix B.
Power Automate use within Windows is available for all applications and websites (across all web browsers). Enterprise
automation and administrative rights are not available in Windows.

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 Summary of Power Automate use rights with Windows licenses

Power Automate use rights within

Plan and Capabilities
Windows licenses

Cloud flows (Automated, instant, and scheduled

flows)

Business process flows

Execute flows1
⚫
Attended desktop flows2
Via Power Automate desktop only

Unattended desktop flows

Share and collaborate Applies to flows included in the license
Standard connectors
Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors
On premises data gateway
Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) use
Store and manage data
rights

Run flows in a Managed Environment. Manage

Managed Environments
Power Platform at scale.4

Enterprise management and

Centralized administration in PPAC Basic report3
security
1
See technical documentation for definitions of each flow type.
2
Via Power Automate desktop only; a free application not intended for business-critical functions; there is no SLA or Microsoft support. Cloud flows,
standard and premium connectors, orchestration (scheduled or automatic triggers for desktop flows, attended or unattended, combined cloud flows +
desktop flows in a single automation), sharing desktop flows, developing in a different environment than the default, Automation Lifecycle Management
(ALM), monitoring and execution logs are not included.
3
Power Automate desktop flows basic usage reports are available via the Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC).
4
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages usage in
that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.

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 Summary of Power Automate use rights
Power Automate paid offers Power Automate use rights included with:

Per user with Per flow Unattended Hosted Select Select

Plan and Capabilities Per user Power
attended RPA plan RPA RPA M/O365 Windows D365
plan (min. 5 Apps
plan initial units)
add-on add-on licenses licenses

Cloud flows (Automated,

⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫2 ⚫2
instant, and scheduled flows)

Execute flows1 Business process flows ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫2 ⚫2

Attended desktop flows ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫3

Unattended desktop flows4 $ $ ⚫ ⚫

Visualize and analyze

Process advisor ⚫ ⚫
processes5
Applies to flows included in
Share and collaborate ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
the license

Standard connectors ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫2 ⚫2

Premium and custom ⚫2 ⚫2

Connect to your data ⚫ ⚫5 ⚫5
connectors
On premises data gateway ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫2 ⚫2

Dataverse use rights ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫2 ⚫2

Store and manage data Dataverse for Teams (use

⚫
for in Teams only)
Run flows in a Managed
Managed Environments Environment. Manage Power ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
Platform at scale.6
Enterprise management Applies to flows included in Basic
⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
and security the license report

Dataverse Database capacity 250MB7 250MB7 50MB7

Per license capacity
Dataverse File capacity 2GB7 2GB7 200MB7
AI Builder AI Builder service credits8 $ 5,000 $ 5,000 5,000 $

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 1
See technical documentation for definitions of each flow type.
2
Within app context - For both triggers and actions, flows included within an embedding application, can connect to any data source
within the use rights of the embedding application and directly with the embedding application.
3
Via Power Automate desktop only; a free application not intended for business-critical functions; there is no SLA or Microsoft
support. Cloud flows, standard and premium connectors, orchestration (scheduled or automatic triggers for desktop flows, attended
or unattended, combined cloud flows + desktop flows in a single automation), sharing desktop flows, developing in a different
environment than the default, Automation Lifecycle Management (ALM), monitoring and execution logs are not included.
4
Unattended RPA scenarios require the Power Automate unattended RPA add-on license, the Power Automate hosted RPA license or
the Power Automate Unattended desktop flow run meter. For the unattended RPA add-on license and hosted RPA add-on licenses,
qualifying base licenses include the Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan or Power Automate per flow plan. Multiple
unattended RPA add-ons can be applied against a single qualifying base license. Concurrent instances of a singular process require
an additional unattended bot for each instance.
5
Desktop flow connector is included. (This desktop flow connector is not included in Windows licenses.)
6
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and
Power Pages usage in that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
7
Dataverse Database and Dataverse File subscription capacity is accrued at the tenant level. Additional Dataverse Database,
Dataverse File and Dataverse Log subscription capacity can be purchased in increments of 1GB.
8
Additional AI Builder capacity can be purchased per 1M service credits for $500/month via the AI Builder capacity add-on.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Power Virtual Agents

Service Overview
Power Virtual Agents empowers teams to easily create
powerful bots using a guided, no-code graphical interface
without the need for data scientists or developers. It easily
integrates bots with hundreds of apps and services using
prebuilt connectors and allows the ability to create custom
workflows with Power Automate, enabling bots to take action
on behalf of customers. It allows users to monitor and continuously improve bot performance using AI-
and data-driven insights available in an easy-to-read dashboard. For more information, please visit:
https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com
With Power Virtual Agents, organizations can publish bots to engage with their customers on multiple
platforms or channels. These include live websites, mobile apps, and messaging platforms like Microsoft
Teams. Please refer to this public documentation on channel details.

Licensing overview
The Power Virtual Agents application is licensed per tenant. Power Virtual Agents will be charged
according to the unit of ‘billed sessions’1 (see below for definition).

Tenant offer summary

SKU Name Power Virtual Agent
License type Tenant license

A user license (Power Virtual Agent User License) is required for each user authoring bots with Power
Virtual Agents. Available at no additional cost, the license can be assigned to users by the administrator in
the admin portal. We recommend acquiring the tenant license (with capacity add-on if needed) and user
licenses as part of a single transaction to simplify onboarding to Power Virtual Agents.

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 Summary of Power Virtual Agents entitlements
Plans and capabilities Power Virtual Agents entitlements

Create and maintain

Deploy chatbots in all channels ⚫
intelligent chatbots
Chat Sessions Sessions / tenant / month1 2K

Cloud flows (Automated, instant and Within the context of Power Virtual Agents
Create flows scheduled flows) bots

Business process flows

Standard connectors ⚫

Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors ⚫

On-premises data gateway ⚫

Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service)

Store and manage data ⚫
use rights
Run bots in a Managed Environment.
Managed Environments ⚫
Manage Power Platform at scale.2
Dataverse Database capacity 10GB
Per license capacity Dataverse File capacity 20GB
Dataverse Log capacity 2GB
1
See billed session definition table below to understand how sessions are defined and counted.
2
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and
Power Pages usage in that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Billed session definition:

A billed session is an interaction between the user and the bot and represents one unit of consumption. The billed
session begins when a user topic is triggered and ends when one of these conditions is met—either: The user's
questions are answered; or the conversation exceeds 60 minutes or 100 turns*. There is no end user experience
impact when exceeding 60 minutes or 100 turns; this simply counts as another billed session for reporting
purposes.

*A turn is defined as one exchange between the user and the bot (i.e., the user sends a message to the bot and the bot
responds or vice versa). One billed session usually contains multiple turns.
Reference this link for details.

Licensing structure

Power Virtual Agents

Power Virtual Agents Power Virtual Agent per user
capacity add-on
Licensed by tenant Licensed by tenant Licensed by user
Offer Details Offer Details Offer Details
• 2K Chat sessions per • Capacity add-on for 1,000 • A per user license is required for each
tenant/month chat sessions per user authoring bots
• Create flows (within the tenant/month • Offered at no cost
context of Power Virtual • Increases the number of chat • It is recommended to acquire the
Agents bots) bot sessions and daily Power tenant license (with the capacity add-
• Connectors: Standard, Platform Requests per tenant on if needed) and user licenses as
Premium and Custom • SKU Name: Chat session for part of a single transaction to simplify
• Dataverse use rights Virtual Agent onboarding to Power Virtual Agents
o 10GB Database capacity
o 20GB File capacity
o 2GB Log capacity

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 Capacity enforcement
All Power Virtual Agents purchased capacity is enforced monthly and unused sessions do not carry over
month to month.
Overage handling
While occasional and reasonable overages will be tolerated, customers exceeding purchased capacity
should adjust their purchase quantity per standard Microsoft terms to remain in compliance.
Comprehensive monitoring, reporting and alerting mechanisms will be instituted to assist customers with
managing Power Virtual Agents capacity. More stringent technical enforcement (including service denial)
will result for usage that is significantly over the purchased capacity.

Power Virtual Agents for Teams use rights included with Microsoft/Office 365 licenses
Power Virtual Agents for Teams enables customers with select M/O365 licenses to build and deploy
custom chatbots directly within Teams, using Dataverse for Teams. For a complete list of M/O365 licenses
that include Power Virtual Agents for Teams use rights, please refer to Appendix B.
Summary of Power Virtual Agents for Teams use rights included with Microsoft/Office 365 licenses
Power Virtual Agents for Teams use
Plans and capabilities
rights with M/O365 licenses

Create and maintain Deploy chatbots in Teams ⚫

intelligent chatbots Deploy chatbots in all channels
Unlimited2
Chat Sessions Sessions / tenant / month1
(Teams only)
Cloud flows (Automated, instant, scheduled Within the context of Power Virtual
Create flows flows) Agents bots
Business process flows
Standard connectors ⚫
Connect to your data Premium and custom connectors3
On-premises data gateway
Utilize Dataverse for Teams
Select M/O365 licenses
(use for chatbots in Teams only)4,5,6
Store and manage data
Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) use
rights
Run bots in a Managed Environment. Manage
Managed Environments
Power Platform at scale.7
Dataverse Database capacity
Per license capacity Dataverse File capacity
Dataverse Log capacity
1
Included sessions are Teams-only; paid capacity utilizing premium functionality can be used for all channels, including Teams, which
consumes paid session capacity. Please refer to http://aka.ms/platformlimits for public documentation on service limits.
2
Chat sessions are unlimited per tenant/month. A service limit of 10 sessions per user/24 hours across all bots in a tenant will be
enforced. Please see Quotas, limits, and configuration values for Power Virtual Agents for more information.
3
Customers can publish their Azure backend service as APIs and export these APIs to the Power Platform as custom connectors via
Azure API Management. Customers with eligible M/O365 licenses that include Dataverse for Teams can use these connectors for
custom applications, flows, and chatbots running in Teams and to connect Azure backend services, not on-premises or 3rd party
clouds. Please see Azure API Management page and technical documentation here.
4
Dataverse for Teams is a built-in flexible datastore that provides data storage and a one-click solution for app deployment in
Teams. For a complete list of M/O365 licenses that include Dataverse for Teams use rights, please refer to Appendix B.
5
Each Dataverse for Teams environment uniquely maps (1:1) to a Teams team and can store up to 1,000,000 rows based on typical
usage. Please refer to the public link here for the details on Dataverse for Teams capacity and service limits.
6
Dataverse for Teams does not grant additional entitlements with standalone Power Platform licenses but supports premium
functionality that comes with corresponding license. Example: In a given Dataverse for Teams environment, accessing premium
connectors in the context of a chatbot requires a tenant to be licensed by the paid Power Virtual Agents plan.
7
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and
Power Pages usage in that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.

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Power Virtual Agents use rights included with Dynamics 365 licenses
Select Dynamics 365 licenses include limited Power Virtual Agents use rights and session capacity for the
purpose of extending Dynamics 365 application(s). Please refer to the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide for
information related to these entitlements.

Power Pages
Service Overview
Power Pages delivers a secure, enterprise-grade platform for
creating, hosting and administering modern external facing
business websites. For more details, please visit
https://powerpages.microsoft.com/

Licensing overview
Power Pages licensing is based on two user types, authenticated users per website/month and
anonymous users per website/month. Each end user that accesses a Power Pages website needs to be
licensed appropriately.
• Authenticated users definition: Power Pages authenticated users are users who obtain secure access
to a website by logging in through an authentication provider on the website.
• Anonymous users definition: Power Pages anonymous users are users who access a website and do
not log in.

Standalone Power Pages plans

All standalone plans include the full capabilities of Power Pages. Organizations that need full-fledged
general purpose Power Pages websites to create, host and administer rich, interactive, data first, business
web apps worldwide should purchase standalone Power Pages plans.

Power Pages authenticated users plan

Authenticated user subscription licenses are offered for the number of unique, authenticated users, i.e.,
users who obtain secure access to a website by logging in through an authentication provider on the
website. This subscription plan is licensed through capacity packs with 100 users per capacity pack. Three
tiers of pricing are offered. Once the minimum purchase requirement is met, additional packs can be
purchased in units of 1.
For example, a customer requiring Power Pages access to a single website for 5,500 authenticated
users/month can purchase 55 Power Pages authenticated user capacity packs at Tier 1 pricing.
Power Pages authenticated user subscription plan offers

Capacity Packs Total Number of users

Capacity Pack Tiers
Minimum purchase (100 users in 1capacity pack)
Tier 1 1 pack 100+ users
Tier 2 100 packs 10,000+ users
Tier 3 1,000 packs 100,000+ users

Customers should purchase the necessary number of capacity pack licenses to cover the anticipated
number of authenticated users that will access each Power Pages website over a monthly period. Unused
capacity does not carry over to the next month.

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 Note: Authenticated user capacity packs do not need to be assigned to individual users. These capacities
are assigned to an environment.

Per authenticated user offer details

SKU Name Power Pages Authenticated users per site
License type Per authenticated user/website

Power Pages anonymous users plan

Anonymous user subscription licenses are offered for the number of anonymous users who access a
website and do not log in. This subscription plan is licensed through capacity packs with 500 users per
capacity pack. Three tiers of pricing are offered. Once the minimum purchase requirement is met,
additional packs can be purchased in units of 1.

For example, a customer requiring Power Pages access to a single website for 20,000 anonymous
users/month can purchase 40 Power Pages anonymous user capacity packs at Tier 2 pricing.
Power Pages anonymous user subscription plan offers

Capacity Packs Number of users

Capacity Pack Tiers
Minimum purchase (500 users/capacity pack)
Tier 1 1 pack 500+ users
Tier 2 20 packs 10,000+ users
Tier 3 200 packs 100,000+ users

Customers should purchase the necessary number of capacity pack licenses to cover the anticipated
number of anonymous users that will access each Power Pages website over a monthly period. Unused
capacity does not carry over to the next month.
Note: Anonymous user capacity packs do not need to be assigned to individual users. These capacities are
assigned to an environment.

Per anonymous user offer details

SKU Name Power Pages Anonymous users per site
License Type Per anonymous user/website

Power Pages use rights included with Power Apps and Dynamics 365 licenses
Power Pages use rights within Power Apps and Dynamics 365 Enterprise Apps are limited to the context
of the Power Apps and Dynamics Enterprise Apps. Dynamics 365 Enterprise Apps are granted use rights
for Power Pages, however, restricted tables and the associated Dynamics 365 license requirements for
users who create, update, or delete data stored within these tables remain in place. For a full list of
restricted tables, see Restricted tables requiring Dynamics 365 licenses.

License Power Pages use rights

Power Apps per app Run 1 Power App or access 1 website
Power Apps per user Unlimited Power Pages websites
Dynamics 365 Team Members None
Dynamics 365 Operations – Activity None
Dynamics 365 Apps1 None
• Power Pages websites that map to licensed Dynamics 365 application
context
Dynamics 365 Enterprise Apps2 • Power Pages websites that map to the same environment as the licensed
Dynamics 365 application
• Unlimited Power Pages websites
Microsoft 365 / Office 365 None

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 1
Dynamics 365 Sales Professional, Dynamics 365 Customer Service Professional, Dynamics 365 Team Members, Dynamics 365
Operations – Activity, Dynamics 365 Human Resources Self Service, Dynamics 365 Business Central Team Members
2
Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise, Dynamics 365 Sales Premium, Dynamics 365 Customer Service Enterprise, Dynamics 365 Field
Service, Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, Dynamics 365
Commerce, Dynamics 365 Human Resources, Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Summary of all Power Pages use rights

Power Pages subscription plans Power Pages use rights included with:

Plans and capabilities Power Pages Power Pages Select D365

Power Apps Power Apps
Authenticated Anonymous Enterprise
per app plan per user plan
user user licenses

Within same
Create, access, host
1 app or 1 environ. as
Custom websites and administer ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
website licensed
websites
D365 app

Standard connectors ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
Connect to your data Premium and
⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
custom connectors

Utilize Dataverse ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫

Create and access

custom tables and ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
Store and manage data complex tables1

Dynamics 365
Read
restricted tables Read only Read only Read only CRUD
only
access2
Dataverse Database
Default capacity 5 GB3 5 GB3 5 GB4 10 GB4
capacity

Dataverse Database
Accrued capacity 2 GB5 500 MB5 20 GB4 20 GB4
capacity

Dataverse File capacity Accrued capacity 16 GB5 4 GB5

Per pay-as-you-go
Dataverse Database
environment
capacity
(Default)
Per pay-as-you-go
Dataverse File capacity environment
(Default)
Run websites in a
Managed Environ.
Managed Environments ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫
Manage Power
Platform at scale. 6

1
For exceptions to Dynamics 365 Field Service use rights for Power Apps users, refer to the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.
2
For a full list of restricted tables and exceptions for Case tables, see Restricted tables requiring Dynamics 365 licenses.
3
Shared entitlement per tenant
4
Per license capacity
5
Per capacity pack
6
When Managed Environments is activated in a specific environment, all Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and
Power Pages usage in that environment requires standalone licenses. Please see Power Platform Managed Environments for details.
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

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 Power Platform Dataverse Capacity
Dataverse default subscription capacity
Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages default subscription capacities
leverage the same tenant and infrastructure and will accrue across one tenant. Every tenant with a Power
Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages license receives default capacity. In
addition, for each Power Apps per user, Power Apps per app, Power Automate per user, Power Automate
per flow plan and Power Pages license there is additional accrued capacity added to the tenant. For
capacity and service limits regarding Dataverse for Teams, please refer to the public documentation here.
Default Default Accrued Accrued
Power Apps Default Capacity per tenant
per user per app per user per app
Dataverse Database capacity 10GB 5GB 250MB 50MB
Dataverse File capacity 20GB 20GB 2GB 400MB
Dataverse Log capacity 2GB 2GB

Default Default Accrued Accrued

Power Automate Default Capacity per tenant
per user per flow per user per flow
Dataverse Database capacity 10GB 5GB 250MB 50MB
Dataverse File capacity 20GB 2GB 2GB 200MB
Dataverse Log capacity 2GB 200MB

Note, customers may have as many flows as needed with the per-flow plan. Each flow will increase
capacity limits.

Default
Power Virtual Agents Default Capacity per tenant
per tenant
Dataverse Database capacity 10GB
Dataverse File capacity 20GB
Dataverse Log capacity 2GB

Accrued Accrued
Default Default entitlement entitlement
Power Pages Default Capacity entitlement entitlement per authenticated per anonymous
per tenant per tenant user capacity user capacity
pack pack
Dataverse Database capacity 5GB 5GB 2GB 500MB
Dataverse File capacity 16GB 4GB

Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages and Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer
Service, and Field Service applications leverage the same tenant and infrastructure. Dataverse capacity
(Dataverse Database, Dataverse File, and Dataverse Log formats) is pooled across the tenant and shared
amongst relevant application workloads.

There are additional Microsoft subscriptions beyond Power Platform that grant Dataverse capacity
entitlements. Please see this page for details related to Project for the web, as well as the Dynamics 365
Licensing Guide for information related to other entitlements.

Dataverse allows integration with Outlook and SharePoint.

Dataverse capacity – Capacity types and Purpose

Type Purpose

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 Database Stores and manages table definitions and data
Stores attachments to notes or emails in Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Service, and Field Service
File applications and Power Apps. These include documents, image files, videos, PDF files and other
crucial files needed in an organization.
Records table and column data changes over time for use in analysis and reporting purposes. Log
Log
capacity is designed to help organizations meet their auditing, compliance, and governance policies.

The first Power Apps OR Power Automate OR Power Virtual Agents OR Power Pages OR Dynamics 365
Sales, Customer Service, and Field Service subscription provides the one-time default capacity entitlement
for the tenant. For example, if a new customer purchases Power Apps per user plan, the tenant will receive
10GB of default Dataverse Database capacity. Additional subscriptions do not add to the tenant’s default
capacity.
When additional subscriptions are added to the tenant, additional Dataverse capacity may accrue to the
tenant.
Example: Let’s assume that a new customer starts by purchasing 10 Power Apps per user licenses and 20
Power Apps per app licenses. In this case, the total tenant wide pooled capacity will be as follows (note 1GB
= 1,024MB):
Default/ Total Tenant
Default and Accrued Capacity Allocation Accrued/10 Enterprise USL
tenant wide capacity
Dataverse Database capacity 10GB 10*250MB + 20*50MB = 3.5GB 10GB + 3.5GB = 13.5GB
Dataverse File capacity 20GB 10*2GB + 20*400MB = 28GB 20GB+28GB = 48 GB
Dataverse Log capacity 2GB NA 2GB

Dataverse capacity for Power Platform pay-as-you-go environments

Dataverse default capacity
Environments that are configured to use Power Platform pay-as-you-go, receive an entitlement of 1GB of
Dataverse Database capacity and 1GB of Dataverse File capacity per environment. These entitlements do
not change based on the number of users using apps in an environment. These pay-as-you-go
environments do not consume tenant-wide Dataverse capacity. For more information on Power Platform
pay-as-you-go please visit http://aka.ms/PowerPlatformPAYG.

Included per
Pay-as-you-go environments pay-as-you-go
environment
Dataverse Database capacity 1GB
Dataverse File capacity 1GB
Dataverse Log capacity

Dataverse capacity meters

With a pay-as-you-go enabled environment, Dataverse capacity meters can be used to pay-as-you-go for
Dataverse usage as alternatives to the existing subscription capacity add-ons for overages. Dataverse pay-
as-you-go capacity is billed based on the amount of capacity used in the environment, beyond the 1GB
Dataverse Database capacity and 1GB Dataverse File capacity entitlements per environment. No capacity
is allocated for Dataverse Logs. (Fractional usage is calculated to 2 decimal places in local currencies.)

Meter definition: Amount of capacity used in the environment beyond any entitled amounts (1GB
database capacity and 1GB of file capacity per environment).

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 Dataverse Capacity/environment Additional Increment
Dataverse Database capacity 1GB
Dataverse File capacity 1GB
Dataverse Log capacity 1GB

Capacity add-ons
If additional subscription capacity (such as additional database or file capacity) is required, these optional
add-on licenses can be added to your subscriptions. Subscription add-ons apply across the tenant and are
not tied to a specific user. Subscription add-ons can be purchased at any time and remain a part of the
subscription for the remainder of the subscription term.

Dataverse (Common Data Service) capacity

Apps, flows or websites utilizing Dataverse will consume varying quantities of Dataverse Database
capacity, Dataverse File capacity, and Dataverse Log capacity. Additional capacity is available through the
Dataverse capacity add-ons.

Subscription Capacity/tenant Additional Increment

Dataverse (Common Data Service) Database capacity 1GB
Dataverse (Common Data Service) File capacity 1GB
Dataverse (Common Data Service) Log capacity 1GB

Please note that Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) capacity add-ons do not apply to Dataverse
for Teams scenarios (i.e., when a Dataverse for Teams environment reaches its limit, customers need to
step up to standalone Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents or Power Pages plans for
additional capacity).

AI Builder capacity add-on

Service overview
AI Builder helps empower everyone – regardless of their technical experience to work with Artificial
Intelligence (AI). This solution helps easily add AI capabilities to both apps and business processes. AI
Builder supports various scenarios such as predictions, business card reader, and many more. For more
information on AI Builder, please visit https://PowerApps.microsoft.com/ai-builder/.

Licensing overview
AI Builder is licensed as an add-on to standalone Power Apps and Power Automate licensing as well as
Dynamics 365 licenses.
AI Builder is licensed on a capacity basis. AI Builder capacity is expressed in the form of “service credits.”
Service credits serve as the single (common) currency across all the scenarios supported by AI Builder.
Available service credits are deducted when AI Builder services are used. Different scenarios (for example,
forms processing, prediction, etc.) burn down service credits at different rates.
Customers should purchase the appropriate number of AI Builder capacity add-on units based on
anticipated usage across all scenarios. Each unit of “AI Builder capacity add-on” includes 1 million service
credits per month. For example, a customer requiring 4.7 million service credits per month (based on
anticipated usage), should purchase 5 units of “AI Builder capacity add-on.”

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 Offer Details
SKU Name AI Builder capacity add-on
License type Tenant wide capacity license
Entitlement 1 million monthly service credits
Power Apps,1 Power Automate2 and Dynamics 365
Qualifying base licenses
licenses3
1
Power Apps per app 250 service credits, per user – 500 service credits. Cap on accrued capacity is 1,000,000 credits.
2
Users licensed with Power Automate per user with attended RPA plan are granted 5,000 AI Builder service
Credits/month.
3
Please see the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide for more information.

Note:
• Purchased service credits can be used from AI Builder models included within Power Automate,
Power Apps and Dynamics 365 applications.
• Service credits are deducted / consumed for both training and production usage.
• Service credits are pooled across the tenant.
AI Builder rate card
Each AI builder capability consumes service credits at different rates. A calculator is available to help
estimate AI Builder Capacity add-on units to be purchased based on the anticipated usage of various AI
Builder services. Administrators can download an Excel capacity consumption report for the tenant here.

Service Credit
Capability Operation Type
Consumption Rate
Business Card Reader Real-time Prediction Prebuilt 100 credits/Card
Training Custom Free
Forms Processing
Real-time Prediction Custom 500 credits/Page
ID reader Real-time Prediction Prebuilt 100 credits/Page
Training Custom Free (Performed on-premises)
Image Classification
Real-time Prediction Custom 4 credits/Image
Invoice Processing Real-time Prediction Prebuilt 500 credits/Page
50 credits/Image (Standard - First 500
images)
Training Custom 400 credits/Image (Domains - First 500
Object Detection images)
10 credits/Image (After 500 images)
Real-time Prediction Custom 20 credits/Image (Standard and Domains)
Training Custom Free
Prediction Scheduled Prediction Custom 1 credit/5 rows
Real-time Prediction Custom 10 credits/1 row
Receipt Scanning Real-time Prediction Prebuilt 100 credits/Page
Training Custom Free
Text Analysis
Real-time Prediction Custom 20 credits/1k chars
Category Classification, Entity Extraction
Real-time Prediction Prebuilt 20 credits/1k chars
Text Analysis
Real-time Prediction Prebuilt 20 credits/1k chars
Key Phrase Extraction, Language Detection, Sentiment

Text Recognition Real-time Prediction Prebuilt 20 credits/Image

Translation Real-time Prediction Prebuilt 100 credits/1k chars

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 Capacity enforcement
For AI Builder capacity add-on SKUs, purchased capacity is enforced monthly and unused service credits
do not carry over month to month.
Overage handling
While occasional and reasonable overages will be tolerated, customers exceeding purchased capacity
should adjust their purchase quantity per standard Microsoft terms to remain in compliance.
Comprehensive monitoring, reporting, and alerting mechanisms will be instituted to assist customers with
managing AI Builder capacity. More stringent technical enforcement (including service denial) will result
for usage that is significantly over the purchased capacity.
Assignment of purchased capacity
Assignment of purchased capacity to appropriate Power Automate, Power Apps applications and
Dynamics 365 workloads is managed in product. Assignment helps ensure capacity for critical AI models.
The minimum capacity to be assigned is 1 service credit.

Power Virtual Agents capacity add-on

Power Virtual Agents capacity add-on increases the number of chat bot sessions and daily Power Platform
Requests per tenant.
Offer details
SKU Name Chat session for Virtual Agent
Purchase requirement Power Virtual Agents
Capacity entitlement 1000 Chat sessions / tenant / month
Please review http://aka.ms/platformlimits for more details.

Trial and Implementation

Free Trials
Sign-up for a free trial of:
• Power Apps here
• Power Pages here
• Power Automate here
• Power Virtual Agents here

Development and Testing with Power Apps and Power Automate

The free Developer Plan is intended for individual use allowing developers to learn and build skills on Power
Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service). To learn more, click here.

Power Platform Service Support

Support Plans
The benefits included in the Subscription Support Plan are applicable for customers who license Power
Platform solutions via MOSP, EA, MPSA, EAS, and EES. Learn more about Power Apps, Power Automate,
Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages and Dynamics 365 support options:
• Professional Direct Support for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform
• Unified Support (for enterprise solutions)

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 Pricing
Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power Pages price lists are located here:
• Power Apps: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
• Power Automate: https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
• Power Virtual Agents: https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
• Power Pages: https://powerpages.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

Resource Link

Power Apps service https://powerapps.microsoft.com/

Power Automate service https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/
Power Virtual Agents service https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/
Power Pages service https://powerpages.microsoft.com/
Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=866544&clcid=0x409

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 Appendix A: Terminology and Custom Tables
Administration: Administration is critical in order to establish boundaries and policies around the use of
Power Apps in organizations
• Manage environments – space to store, and manage, and share data, apps, and flows
• Data policies – create and enforce policies that define how data can be shared
App (definition of Power Apps per app): An “app” is a combination of Power Platform assets that solves a
specific business scenario
• Each “per app” license provides use rights to run 1 custom app (canvas or model driven), or
access 1 custom website.
• No limits on other components (e.g., forms, dashboards, etc.).
Application Program Interface (API): Any form of application programming interface that provides access
to a Microsoft service and any associated tools, including sample code that enables interactions with
Microsoft's services, and documentation that Microsoft makes available under these TOU, and includes all
elements, components, and executables of such API.
Application Types:
• Canvas Apps: Design and build a business application from a canvas in Microsoft Power Apps
without writing code in a traditional programming language. Design the application by dragging and
dropping elements onto a canvas, the designer has complete control over app layout.
• Model-driven Apps: Design is a component-focused approach to app development based on data
model and business processes. Unlike canvas app development where the designer has complete
control over application layout, with model-driven apps much of the layout is determined for you
and largely designated by the components you add to the application.
Connector: It provides a way for users to connect their business data and leverage a set of pre-built
actions and triggers to build their applications and workflows. Examples of connections: Dataverse
(formerly Common Data Service), SharePoint, SQL, OneDrive, Excel, Dynamics 365.
• Standard Connector: Data sources within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Examples: Excel, Outlook,
SharePoint, LinkedIn. A list of standard connectors is located here.
• Premium Connector: Business systems beyond Microsoft 365. Examples: DocuSign, Zendesk, Jira
Software.
• Custom Connector: To support more tailored scenarios, users can build custom connectors with
their own triggers and actions. These connectors are function-based; data is returned based on
calling specific functions in the underlying service. Example: Services that are not available as
prebuilt connectors.
• On-premises Connector: Accesses on-premises data using a gateway. Example: Microsoft SQL
Server.
CRUD: Create, read, update, and delete operations.

Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service): Dataverse lets you store and manage data that is used by
business applications.

Dataverse for Teams, built atop Dataverse, delivers a built-in low code data platform for Microsoft Teams,
and provides relational data storage, rich data types, enterprise grade governance, and one-click solution
deployment.

Dataverse is designed to be used in any application (not just Teams) and includes additional security
features such as auditing, sharing, column level and hierarchical security. For a detailed comparison on
Dataverse for Teams and Dataverse capabilities, please refer to the public documentation here.

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 Desktop flow: A feature in Power Automate targeting the RPA market by enabling legacy apps to be
automated via GUI vs API.
• Processes executed via desktop flows can be contained within a broader API-based automation
scenario or exist standalone.
Flow (definition of flow within app context): For both triggers and actions, flows included within an
embedding application can connect
• To any data source within the use rights of the embedding application
• Directly with the embedding application (via built in trigger/action)
Robotic Process Automation (RPA): A market for process automation that encompasses the use of an
application's graphical user interface (GUI), where a user records a series of steps/actions/tasks for the
automation technology to then perform as a process by repeating directly in the GUI.
RPA robot or "bot": A GUI-based process running on a desktop or virtualized environment
• Attended bot: Triggered by an explicit user action on their workstation, i.e., a local or remote
desktop
o Must operate concurrently with the user on the same workstation
o Can run more than one discrete process, but each process must be serialized to run
sequentially
• Unattended bot: Runs autonomously without requiring user actuation
o Can be deployed on a local or remote desktop, or other virtualized environment
o Can run more than one discrete process, but each process must be serialized to run
sequentially
o Concurrent instances of a singular process require an additional unattended bot for each
instance
Tables: A set of records used to store data, similar to how a table stores data within a database. Tables let
users model business data for use within an organization’s business applications. Examples of tables:
Account, Contact, Lead, Opportunity.
• Standard tables: Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service) provides business tables, out of the
box, that represent most commonly used tables across business applications. Examples: Account,
Appointment, Contact, Email, etc.
• Custom tables: Tables that are created by the customer/partner for a specific business need. For
example, type of machine is not a standard table, so it can be created as a custom table.
• Restricted tables: Tables that requires a Dynamics 365 license for full access. Examples: Case, SAL,
Knowledge Articles. For list of restricted tables click here.
• Complex tables: These are tables that use complex server-side business logic. Any table (whether
standard or custom) becomes complex once the customer/partner associates the table with the
custom business logic. Example: any table that uses a real-time workflow or code plug-in.
Workflows:
• Background workflows: Task automation across systems and services. Runs in the background.
• Real-time workflows: Task automation across systems and services. Runs in a real time manner.
• Business process flows: Structured stateful human interactive workflows which are composed of
multiple steps, allows branching/stage gating, and includes process KPIs and reporting.

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 Appendix B: Dynamics 365, Microsoft/Office 365, and
Windows licenses that include Power Platform capabilities
Dynamics 365
Limited Use Rights Included with Qualifying
License
Qualifying License

Power
Power Apps Power Pages
Automate

Dynamics 365 Sales Premium   

Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise   

Dynamics 365 Sales Professional  

Dynamics 365 Customer Service Enterprise   

Dynamics 365 Customer Service Professional  

Dynamics 365 Field Service   

Dynamics 365 Project Operations   

Dynamics 365 Team Members  

Dynamics 365 Finance   

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management   

Dynamics 365 Commerce   

Dynamics 365 Human Resources   

Dynamics 365 Operations – Activity  

Dynamics 365 Business Central   

Dynamics 365 Business Central Team

 
Members

Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management   

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 Microsoft 365*, Office 365, and Windows
Limited Use Rights Included with Qualifying License

Power
Qualifying License Power Automate Virtual Dataverse
Power
Agents for
Apps
for Teams
Cloud Desktop
Teams
flows flows

Office 365 E1 ○ ○ ○ ○

Office 365 E3 ○ ○ ○ ○

Office 365 E5 ○ ○ ○ ○

Office 365 F3 ○ ○ ○ ○

Microsoft 365 Business Basic ○ ○ ○ ○

Microsoft 365 Business

○ ○ ○ ○
Standard

Microsoft 365 Business

○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Premium

Microsoft 365 F1

Microsoft 365 F3 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Microsoft 365 E3 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Microsoft 365 E5 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Windows 10 Pro ○

Windows Enterprise E3 ○

Windows Enterprise E5 ○

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 Office 365 A1 ○ ○

Office 365 A31 ○ ○ ○ ○

Office 365 A51 ○ ○ ○ ○

Microsoft 365 A12 ○ ○

Microsoft 365 A31 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Microsoft 365 A51 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Windows Education A31 ○

Windows Education A51 ○

1Also included in Student Use Benefit

2Included via accompanying Office 365 A1
*Microsoft 365 is governed by the License Terms of the individual products and services comprising Microsoft 365, as
modified by the License Terms in the Microsoft 365 Product Entry. For more information on Microsoft 365 and Office 365
Suites licensing channels and segment availability, refer to the Product Terms.

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 Appendix C: Change Log
Page Topic Change Action Date
12, 17 Power Automate New Hosted RPA January 2023
Various Power Platform New Managed Environments January 2023
Various Power Pages New Power Pages Nov 2022
24 AI Builder Updated Image Classification added to rate card June 2022
Various Power Platform Clarified Minor clarifications May 2022
Service credit consumption rates by
24 AI Builder New April 2022
capability and operation listed
Power Virtual Agents for
20 Clarified Chat sessions per user/24 hours April 2022
Teams
5 Power Apps New Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go plan March 2022
Power Platform pay-as-you-go Dataverse
22, 23 Dataverse New March 2022
capacity
Power Apps and Power Rebranded as Power Platform Requests
10, 17 Rebranded Feb 2022
Automate capacity add-on add-on
4, 5 Power Apps New AI Builder service credits Dec 2021
Dynamics 365 Field Service use rights for
5 Power Apps New Dec 2021
work orders
Various Power Platform requests Updated Updated footnotes Nov 2021
Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order
28 Appendix B Updated Oct 2021
Management added
3, 4 Power Apps per app Updated Entitlements updated Oct 2021
Various WinAutomation Updated End of support Oct 2021
8 Power Apps Portals Updated Channels for per login add-on June 2021
11, 17 Power Automate New Process Advisor June 2021
Terminology change from entities to
Various Microsoft Dataverse Updated May 2021
tables
Power Virtual Agents use rights included
19 Power Virtual Agents New May 2021
with Dynamics 365 applications
Various Subscription capacity Updated Power Apps and Power Automate May 2021
Various Daily API request limit Rebranded Rebranded as Power Platform requests May 2021
Various Power Virtual Agents Clarified Daily API request limit April 2021
7 Power Apps portals Clarified End user type March 2021

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