Your Power Platform bill, person by person.

Power FinOps reads your Microsoft tenant every day and answers four questions: what Power Platform costs you, what will change it in the next twelve months, where to save without putting anyone at risk, and what happens if you act.

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Contoso, a sample tenant. Each point is one of its 1,800 people. Scroll to follow them.

The same tenant, in the app.

Five screens, one dataset, so the numbers agree with each other. This is the real layout with Contoso's data: open a risk, add a saving to your plan, move the renewal slider.

Contoso, Power PlatformData collected today

Overview

What Power Platform costs, and what is coming.

$154,200

What you spend today

per year, 2 lines still at list price

+$10,080

Already scheduled

price rise on Jan 1, 2027

312

Users could be blocked

from February 2027

$20,632

Savings found

on your bill, 3 actions

  • Power Apps $100,800
  • Power Automate $18,000
  • Dataverse $9,600
  • Pay-as-you-go $25,800

Next deadlines

Top actions

The four numbers above are never added together: a bill saving, an avoided purchase and a reduced risk are different things.

Fictional tenant of 1,800 people. Every figure is consistent from one screen to the next.

What each screen answers

What will change your bill in the next twelve months.

Microsoft changes Power Platform licensing every 12 to 24 months. These are the dates on the table today. Power FinOps measures each one against your tenant, and adds the next one when it is announced.

  1. Oct 2026

    Pipelines need managed environments

    Unmanaged pipeline targets get flagged, with 30 days plus a 30 day extension. Switching to managed creates users who need a license.

  2. Nov 9 to Dec 4

    Dataverse storage validation

    Environments over their allowance cannot be created, copied or restored. Sandboxes without pay-as-you-go go to admin mode at 30 days and are disabled at 60.

  3. Jan 1, 2027

    Power Apps Premium goes from $20 to $22

    $12 to $14 at the 2,000 seat tier, for any term that starts on or after that day.

  4. Feb 2027

    Users without the right license are blocked

    In managed environments, in model-driven apps, and in premium apps outside a Dynamics 365 context.

And your renewal. The one deadline that comes back every year, and the only day prepaid licenses can go down. The plan screen works back from it.

See every exposure the product tracks

Sources: Pipelines in Power Platform, Microsoft 365 message center MC1483519, Power Apps Premium price update, Power Apps licensing FAQ.

It runs by itself, read-only, inside your tenant.

Your security team reviews a small footprint once. After that, the data refreshes every day without anyone exporting or uploading a file.

  • It needs one service account

    An account with the Power Platform Administrator role. Nothing to develop, nothing to wire up on your side.

  • It never changes anything

    No license assigned or removed, no owner changed, no flow disabled. A person acts, in the Microsoft tools.

  • It says when a source is late

    Every source shows its age. If one fails, the screen names it and the others keep working.

Your Microsoft tenant

  • Licenses and who holds them
  • Environments and capacity
  • Apps and flows
  • Pay-as-you-go usage
  • Microsoft license reports
Power FinOps

Collects every day. Reads everything above, writes only to its own tables.

Collected today

Used byYour CoEProcurementFinanceIT admins
Nothing is sent to us. No hosted service holds your data.

Every number can be questioned.

One click on Why? shows the calculation, the source, the date of the data and the Microsoft rule in plain words. Try it on the card. That is what makes a figure usable in front of procurement.

Four kinds of number, never added

A bill saving, an avoided purchase and a reduced risk are different things. Adding them is how a business case falls apart in front of finance.

Unknown is not zero

When a figure is missing, the screen says so and how to get it. A cost at list price says list price until you enter yours.

Confidence per line

Flagged by Microsoft, seen in billed usage, seen in a Microsoft report, or declared by you. Never one total that hides which is which.

Savings, on your bill

Reduce Power Apps Premium at renewal

High confidence

$12,936

a year, from April 1, 2027. Procurement acts.

Calculation
49 licenses × $22 × 12 months = $12,936
Source and date
License inventory from the tenant, collected today.
Microsoft rule, in plain words
A license counts as unused when it is bought and not assigned. Names of assigned but idle users are never listed.

Two ways to use it.

Same product, same numbers. The difference is who runs it, and how often.

Diagnostic

We run it, you get the file

We install Power FinOps, run it on your tenant and walk you through the results. Once, before a renewal, or on a schedule that suits you.

  • Cost, risks, savings and the quantity to renew
  • A file procurement can forward as is
  • Fixed price, quoted by tenant size

License

You own it, your team uses it

Power FinOps stays in your tenant for good. Your CoE and procurement use it every day, and run every decision through the simulator first.

  • One payment, perpetual right of use
  • Optional yearly updates as Microsoft changes its rules
  • Installed and handed over with your team

Compare the two on the pricing page

What practitioners said after a walkthrough.

Feedback on an earlier version of the tool, from people who run Power Platform governance for a living.

“This is an awesome solution that helps customers truly control and understand their licensing across Power Platform. It is the first time I have seen someone with this specific vision for license governance, you are definitely on the right way.”
Eduardo AmaralMicrosoft MVP, Founder of Governance4U
“[...] It provides incredibly accurate licensing data and identifies massive cost-saving opportunities. It is the perfect solution for anyone looking to conduct professional audits and deliver real financial value in the Power Platform sector.”
Marcel BroschkCo-Founder M365 Con, M365 Show & Power Bros

What people ask first.

What is Power FinOps?
Power FinOps is a license cost tool for Microsoft Power Platform, installed in your own tenant as a Power Platform solution. It calculates what you pay for Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and pay-as-you-go, lists the Microsoft changes that will move that bill, finds savings that put nobody at risk, and simulates your renewal.
Does Microsoft not already show this?
Partly, in separate places. The admin center lists licenses, capacity, and, in preview, unlicensed users in managed environments. It does not put a cost on each option, cover model-driven apps outside managed environments or the Dynamics 365 context, find the savings, or tell you how many licenses to renew. Power FinOps brings those pieces together and adds the decision and the proof.
Is Power FinOps a Power Platform cost calculator?
It does what a Power Platform cost or licensing calculator does, from your tenant instead of a spreadsheet: what each user and each app costs on Power Apps Premium or pay-as-you-go, Power Automate and Dataverse capacity. Then it goes further, with the Microsoft changes coming, the savings and a renewal simulator. A free Excel calculator is also available for a first estimate.
Is it only about February 2027?
No. February 2027 is the most visible change on the table, and the product measures it. It also calculates what you pay today, tracks every other change that moves the bill, finds savings, and simulates your plan before each renewal. Those questions come back every year.
Does it change anything in our tenant?
No. It reads, and it writes only to its own tables. It never assigns or removes a license, changes an owner or disables a flow. It recommends and records, and a person acts in the Microsoft tools.
What do we need to provide?
A service account with the Power Platform Administrator role. The data is then collected every day without anyone exporting or uploading files. Your negotiated prices make the amounts exact; until you enter them, amounts are labeled list price, which is a label, not a blocker.
How does the data stay up to date?
Collection runs every day inside your tenant. Each source shows its age on screen, and if one is late the screen says which one while every other screen keeps working. Microsoft refreshes its two native license reports once a month, and the app reminds you when that is due.
Is it an audit or a compliance certification?
Neither. It shows an exposure calculated on published, dated rules, with a confidence level per line. It is not software asset management and it certifies nothing. It gives you the numbers to decide and to prove the decision.
Is it SaaS?
No. It is installed in your tenant as a Power Platform solution. No hosted service holds your data, and nothing leaves your tenant. You either buy it outright, or have us run it as a diagnostic.
What if Microsoft changes the rules again?
It will. Each change becomes an entry in the rules catalog and reaches your installation as an update, with the yearly updates of the license or with your next diagnostic. A figure that rests on a rule says which one, and when it was last checked.

See it on your own licensing questions.

Thirty minutes: the product on a sample tenant, then your questions about cost, risks and your next renewal.

Check my February 2027 exposure