How much does Microsoft Power Platform cost in 2026?

The direct answer

Power Platform has no single price. Each product is licensed on its own, most of them per user per month, some per website, bot or tenant, and every one of them also has a pay-as-you-go meter billed through Azure. The list below is what Microsoft shows US buyers on its own pricing pages on November 11, 2026, paid yearly unless noted.

Sources: Microsoft pricing pages for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio and Power BI (accessed 2026-11-11). Microsoft states on each page that these prices are shown for marketing purposes, can differ by currency, country and region, and that the actual price appears at checkout.

Power Apps

Premium at $20 per user per month gives the assigned user, in Microsoft's words, "unlimited Power Apps and Power Pages", prebuilt, custom and on-premises connectors, and Dataverse entitlements of 250 MB database and 2 GB file; agentic features work in model-driven apps. Above 2,000 seats Microsoft lists $12. The free Developer Plan is for building and testing only. For apps that a few people open occasionally, the pay-as-you-go meter charges $10 per active user per app per month: a user who opens an app once in a month counts once for that app, and a user who never opens it is not charged (Microsoft Learn, accessed 2026-11-11).

Users who already hold a Power Apps per-user license are not counted by the meter, and Microsoft Learn states that a user with a Microsoft 365 license that provides Power Apps is not counted when the app uses only standard connectors. An app with premium connectors is charged for that user, so premium connectors are what move an app out of Microsoft 365 rights.

Power Automate

Power Automate Premium ($15 per user per month) covers cloud flows within service limits, "desktop flows (RPA) in attended mode", process and task mining with 50 MB of data, and Dataverse entitlements of 250 MB database and 2 GB file. Unattended automation runs on a Process license ($150 per bot per month) or Hosted Process ($215 per bot per month, Microsoft-hosted machine); one bot runs one unattended desktop flow at a time. Process Mining is a $5,000 per tenant per month add-on to Premium.

Pay-as-you-go charges per run instead: $0.60 for each premium cloud flow run or attended desktop run and $3.00 for each unattended or hosted run. Flows that use only standard connectors are not charged, and runs inside a user's license entitlement are not charged (Microsoft Learn, accessed 2026-11-11).

Power Pages

Power Pages is licensed per website by the number of monthly users: $200 for 100 authenticated users and $75 for 500 anonymous users, each per website per month, sold in packs and assigned at the environment level. Pay-as-you-go charges $4 per active authenticated user and $0.30 per active anonymous user per website per month; sites in trial or private mode are not counted, and neither are bots and crawlers (Microsoft; Microsoft Learn, accessed 2026-11-11).

Copilot Studio and AI

Copilot Studio is sold tenant-wide in Copilot Credits: $200 per month for a pack of 25,000 credits, $0.01 per credit on pay-as-you-go, or a pre-purchase plan that Microsoft says saves up to 20%. The number of credits an agent uses depends on the work each response or action does. Microsoft 365 Copilot, $30 per user per month paid yearly, includes the standard Copilot Studio harness for building internal agents. An Azure subscription is required to use agents.

Dataverse storage

Paid plans add database and file capacity to a pool at the tenant level. More database capacity is a $40 per GB per month add-on. In a pay-as-you-go environment, the first 1 GB of database and 1 GB of file storage are free, then database storage costs $48 per GB, file storage $2.40 per GB and log storage $12 per GB per month. Log storage is used only when auditing is on, and it is billed from the first GB (Microsoft Learn, accessed 2026-11-11).

Per-user license or pay-as-you-go?

Microsoft Learn works the choice through examples (labelled illustrative). One automated flow run 145 times over three months by one owner costs $45 on a $15 per-user license and $87 on pay-as-you-go, so the license wins. The same 145 runs spread across ten users of an instant flow cost $450 in licenses and $87 on pay-as-you-go, so the meter wins. The rule that follows: license the people who use the platform every day, and meter the ones who touch an app or flow occasionally.

• Heavy daily makers and users: Power Apps Premium and Power Automate Premium per user.
• Many occasional users of one or two apps: the $10 per active user per app meter.
• High-volume unattended automation: Process or Hosted Process bots, not per-run billing.
• External portals: Power Pages capacity packs when traffic is steady, the meter when it is seasonal.

Costs that surprise budgets

1. Unattended runs in a pay-as-you-go environment. They are charged $3.00 each even if Process capacity is assigned there; Microsoft Learn says process licenses in that environment are ignored, so keep license-backed flows in a separate environment.
2. Service-principal-owned flows. A service principal has no license entitlement, so its flow runs are charged on pay-as-you-go unless a licensed user is designated.
3. Audit log storage. Dataverse log storage in a pay-as-you-go environment is billed from the first GB.
4. App passes. Once an environment is on pay-as-you-go, assigned app passes are ignored; reassign them to another environment.
5. Premium connectors. One premium connector moves an app or flow off Microsoft 365 rights and onto a paid license or meter.

Where EPC Group helps

EPC Group maps who builds, who uses and how often, then sets the licensing mix: which users get Premium, which apps and flows go on pay-as-you-go meters, which automation needs Process bots, and which environments to keep apart so the meters and licenses do not overlap. The same work sets the data loss prevention policies and environment strategy that keep costs predictable. See Power Platform consulting and the Microsoft 365 license optimization assessment. EPC Group does not publish price ranges; engagements are priced after a scoping call.

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