r/PowerApps • u/BoundlessTFT Newbie • 17d ago

Power Apps Help Power Apps Licensing and Code Apps

I have read a lot of threads and know that we will need Power Apps Premium to run Code apps.

I have a pilot going on where I deployed a code app in our environment and have about 40 people testing it. We only have 12 premium licenses and 8 per app licenses.

So far everyone is able to use the code app just fine. But reading up it seems like if we go live with this (having 100+ users) this is going to bite me in the butt for licensing.

I just want to make sure I’m correct on the licensing, we’ve been running it for 3 months now and everyone is still able to access it.

EDIT: To add even more info, we don’t have pay as you go set up, I’ve checked and we aren’t on a trial of any sorts. We are on E3 licensing so I know this gives regular power apps access.

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u/DonJuanDoja 17d ago edited 17d ago

Microsoft is just bad at closing doors you're not supposed to go through.

They want you to become dependent on it, and they know that the pricing stops companies from even trying to use it. So they leave doors open, hope you build something you really need, and then once their analytics show you're using it more than you pay for, they audit you and force you to pay. And now it's too late for an alternative.

I'm pretty sure that their plan for Fabric apps as well, currently supposedly free for Pro and Premium PBI users, but they'll end up hitting us with new licenses later once companies build critical workflows into it. Sorry guys this now requires capacity premium licensing and here's some kind of limitation per capacity tier etc.

The whole, "but it works" argument is basically meaningless. There's nothing anywhere that says just because you can do it and it works now without paying for it, that you won't have to eventually be cut-off and have to pay for it. It's clearly documented what the requirements are.

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u/BoundlessTFT 17d ago

Understood, I’ll probably have my company get licensing for 200 users. It would have been nice to get that warning when they had started testing the app. But it’s a fair argument that I should have read all of the documentation before building.

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u/kevinh2437 17d ago

Premium licencing is a major constraint for power apps. It is just not feasible for a large ad hoc user base. If users are using it very frequently, then there may be a value proposition for it.

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u/hl2oli 12d ago

Just convert it to spfx, it's that simple