Compare Tableau vs Microsoft Power BI

billed Yearly

Discover insights faster by combining a powerful suite of products for visual data prep, best-in-class analytics, and secure collaboration to support your end-to-end analytical workflow.

Features

• Web and mobile
• Embedded content
• Interact with visualizations and dashboards
• Create and share custom views
• Download visualizations as images (.pdf, .png)
• Download summary data
• Download full data
• See data quality warnings1
• Consume predictive models from Einstein Discovery5
• Comment on a dashboard or visualization
• Create a subscription for yourself
• Receive data-driven alerts
• Create subscriptions for others
• Create data-driven alerts
• Edit existing workbooks and visualizations
• Create and publish new workbook from existing published data source
• Explore an existing published data source with Ask Data
• Create and publish new workbook with a new data source
• Create and publish new data sources
• Create new workbooks based on pre-built Dashboard Starters2
• Create new data flows (.tfl)
• Edit and modify a data flow (.tfl)
• Export data (.tde, .hyper or .csv)
• Publish and run flows1
• Schedule flows1
• Monitor flow performance and health1
• Manage users and permissions
• Manage content and certify data sources
• Server administration3
• View lineage and impact1
• Set data quality warnings1
• Advanced Server Deployment Monitoring4
• Programmatic Content Migration4

Add-Ons

• Tableau Data Management : $5.50 per User per Month billed Yearly
• Einstein Discovery in Tableau : $25 per User per Month billed Yearly
• Resource Blocks : $250 per User per Month billed Yearly
  • Minimum 1 Resource Block required (1 Resource Block can run 1 concurrent Prep flow at a time)

Note :

• 1 = Available with Tableau Data Management
• 2 = Only available on Tableau Online
• 3 = Only available on Tableau Server
• 4 = Available with Server Management
• 5 = Available with Einstein Discovery in Tableau

billed Yearly

Explore trusted data and answer your own questions faster with full self-service analytics.

Features

• Web and mobile
• Embedded content
• Interact with visualizations and dashboards
• Create and share custom views
• Download visualizations as images (.pdf, .png)
• Download summary data
• Download full data
• See data quality warnings1
• Consume predictive models from Einstein Discovery5
• Comment on a dashboard or visualization
• Create a subscription for yourself
• Receive data-driven alerts
• Create subscriptions for others
• Create data-driven alerts
• Edit existing workbooks and visualizations
• Create and publish new workbook from existing published data source
• Explore an existing published data source with Ask Data
• Schedule flows1
• Manage users and permissions
• Manage content and certify data sources
• View lineage and impact1
• Set data quality warnings1
• Includes features of Add-Ons

billed Yearly

View and interact with dashboards and visualizations in a secure, easy-to-use platform.

Features

• Web and mobile
• Embedded content
• Interact with visualizations and dashboards
• Create and share custom views
• Download visualizations as images (.pdf, .png)
• Download summary data
• See data quality warnings1
• Consume predictive models from Einstein Discovery5
• Comment on a dashboard or visualization
• Create a subscription for yourself
• Receive data-driven alerts
• View lineage and impact1
• Includes features of Add-Ons

billed Yearly

Discover insights with a powerful suite of products that support your end-to-end analytics workflow.

Features

• Web and mobile
• Embedded content
• Interact with visualizations and dashboards
• Create and share custom views
• Download visualizations as images (.pdf, .png)
• Download summary data
• Download full data
• See data quality warnings1
• Consume predictive models from Einstein Discovery5
• Comment on a dashboard or visualization
• Create a subscription for yourself
• Receive data-driven alerts
• Create subscriptions for others
• Create data-driven alerts
• Edit existing workbooks and visualizations
• Create and publish new workbook from existing published data source
• Explore an existing published data source with Ask Data
• Create and publish new workbook with a new data source
• Create and publish new data sources
• Create new workbooks based on pre-built Dashboard Starters2
• Create new data flows (.tfl)
• Edit and modify a data flow (.tfl)
• Export data (.tde, .hyper or .csv)
• Publish and run flows1
• Schedule flows1
• Monitor flow performance and health1
• Manage users and permissions
• Manage content and certify data sources
• Server administration3
• View lineage and impact1
• Set data quality warnings1
• Advanced Server Deployment Monitoring4
• Programmatic Content Migration4

Add-Ons

• Tableau Data Management : $5.50 per User per Month billed Yearly
• Einstein Discovery in Tableau : $25 per User per Month billed Yearly
• Resource Blocks : $250 per User per Month billed Yearly
  • Minimum 1 Resource Block required (1 Resource Block can run 1 concurrent Prep flow at a time.)

Note :

• 1 = Available with Tableau Data Management
• 2 = Only available on Tableau Online
• 3 = Only available on Tableau Server
• 4 = Available with Server Management
• 5 = Available with Einstein Discovery in Tableau

billed Yearly

Explore trusted data and answer your own questions faster with full self-service analytics.

Features

• Web and mobile
• Embedded content
• Interact with visualizations and dashboards
• Create and share custom views
• Download visualizations as images (.pdf, .png)
• Download summary data
• Download full data
• See data quality warnings1
• Consume predictive models from Einstein Discovery5
• Comment on a dashboard or visualization
• Create a subscription for yourself
• Receive data-driven alerts
• Create subscriptions for others
• Create data-driven alerts
• Edit existing workbooks and visualizations
• Create and publish new workbook from existing published data source
• Explore an existing published data source with Ask Data
• Schedule flows1
• Manage users and permissions
• Manage content and certify data sources
• View lineage and impact1
• Set data quality warnings1
• Includes features of Add-Ons

billed Yearly

View and interact with dashboards and visualizations in a secure, easy-to-use platform.

Features

• Web and mobile
• Embedded content
• Interact with visualizations and dashboards
• Create and share custom views
• Download visualizations as images (.pdf, .png)
• Download summary data
• See data quality warnings1
• Consume predictive models from Einstein Discovery5
• Comment on a dashboard or visualization
• Create a subscription for yourself
• Receive data-driven alerts
• View lineage and impact1
• Includes features of Add-Ons

Features

• Powerful analytics
• APIs to integrate
• Customized experience for your customers
• Single Sign-on authentication
• Increase revenue

License individual users with modern, self-service analytics to visualize data with live dashboards and reports, and share insights across your organization.

Features

• Included with Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise E5
• Mobile app access
• Publish reports to share and collaborate
• Model size limit : 1 GB
• Refresh rate : 8/day
• Connect to more than 100 data sources
• Create reports and visualizations with Power BI Desktop4
• Embed APIs and controls
• AI visuals
• Data security and encryption
• Metrics for content creation, consumption, and publishing
• Maximum storage : 10 GB/user

Add-ons: Autoscale (preview)--$85 per vCore/24 hours

• Autoscale is an optional add-on that requires Power BI Premium per capacity (Gen2) and Azure subscriptions.
• Limits can be preset with autoscale to control costs, such as thresholds on vCore scaling or total subscription charges.

Note :
3 Representative of features available in preview and general availability (GA) status.
4 Power BI Desktop is the data exploration and report authoring experience for Power BI, and it is available as a free download.

License individual users to accelerate access to insights with advanced AI, unlock self-service data prep for big data, and simplify data management and access at enterprise scale.

Features

• Includes features of Power BI Pro plan, plus
• Available now to buy with a credit card
• Paginated (RDL) reports
• Model size limit : 100 GB
• Refresh rate : 48/day
• Advanced AI (text analytics, image detection, automated machine learning)
• XMLA endpoint read/write connectivity
• Dataflows (direct query, linked and computed entities, enhanced compute engine)
• Application lifecycle management
• Maximum storage : 100 TB
• Includes features of Add-ons

per Capacity per month.

License your organization with capacity to accelerate access to insights with advanced AI, unlock self-service data prep for big data, and simplify data management and access at enterprise scale—without per-user licenses for content consumers.

• Requires a Power BI Pro license for publishing content into Power BI Premium capacity.
• Enable autoscale with your Azure subscription to automatically scale Power BI Premium capacity.

Features

• Mobile app access
• Paginated (RDL) reports
• Consume content without a per-user license
• On-premises reporting with Power BI Report Server
• Model size limit : 400 GB
• Refresh rate : 48/day
• Connect to more than 100 data sources
• Create reports and visualizations with Power BI Desktop4
• Embed APIs and controls
• AI visuals
• Advanced AI (text analytics, image detection, automated machine learning)
• XMLA endpoint read/write connectivity
• Dataflows (direct query, linked and computed entities, enhanced compute engine)
• Data security and encryption
• Metrics for content creation, consumption, and publishing
• Application lifecycle management
• Multi-geo deployment management
• Bring your own key (BYOK)
• Autoscale add-on availability (preview)
• Maximum storage : 100 TB
• Includes features of Add-ons