Help understanding Model-Driven App cost

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I'm trying to understand the costs associated with PowerApps.

My work place has a Microsoft 365 license, and we can create Canvas Apps without additional costs. However, for Model Driven (and Portal) apps we need to pay extra. I looked at the subscription plans and I still don't quite understand the fee structure.

Referring to this, in the 'Subscription plans', the [ Per user/app/month = $5] plan says one App or Portal per user. Does that mean for creating the app/portal, or does that include using it as well? In other words, if I were to create a Model Driven or a Portal app under this option, would all the individual users in my company who merely want to access it also be categorized as a 'users'. For instance, if I develop the app and publish, and a group of 5 people including me use it, would the cost be $5/month or $25/month?

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Hamish Sheild 3,005 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @SachS

Your interpretation is correct. Everyone who uses your model-driven app needs to be licensed with a Power Apps per app license.

Power Apps licensing enables user to both create and use apps. There are not a different licenses for users vs creators.

One tip I will give you is that it is a good idea to get at least 1 Power Apps per User license for yourself as the primary maker as you will probably want to have a Dev version of your app too and this licenses also adds 10GB of database capacity to your tenant (which you will most likely also need).

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SachS 151 on at

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Got it, thanks!
So this means $1,000 a month for a 200-employee organization.

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SwJ23 85 on at

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Lol do we really have to pay the $1k just to have a model driven app to input data into a table? That's insane.

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Thats why i still haven't started using dataverse. .

Because for very small apps with abit of data, having lots of users makes the costs very high. Microsoft needs to work on creating a proper balance between data-verse usage and licensing costs, and start thinking about integrating data-verse with M365 plans, to help businesses not having to deal (or at least minimizing) with all these pricing aspects of dataverse

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