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Power Platform Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for Microsoft Power Platform: layered model combining per-user subscriptions (Power Apps Premium $20, Power Automate Premium $15), per-bot subscriptions (Process $150, Hosted Process $215), tenant-level add-ons (Process Mining $5,000, Dataverse storage $40/GB/month), pre-paid Copilot Credits ($200 per 25,000), and pay-as-you-go overage for Power Apps. The unifying meter is Power Platform Requests (PPR), entitled per license on a 24-hour sliding window. Add-on capacity packs raise target identities by 50k PPR/day each and are stackable.

Power Platform Finops is the FinOps profile for Microsoft Power Platform APIs on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 8 billable meters, billed in USD, on a annual (per-user/per-bot) and monthly (payg and copilot credits) cycle, and pricing category subscription + per-bot + pay-as-you-go + tenant add-ons.

The profile maps 9 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Business Applications, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, Low-Code, and Microsoft.

Category: Business Applications Pricing: Subscription + Per-Bot + Pay-As-You-Go + Tenant Add-Ons Billing: Annual (per-user/per-bot) and Monthly (PAYG and Copilot Credits) FOCUS v1.3
Business ApplicationsCopilot StudioDataverseLow-CodeMicrosoftPower AppsPower AutomateFinOpsFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

PurchaseUsageTaxAdjustmentCredit

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Purchase
InvoiceIssuerName
Microsoft Corporation
PricingUnit
seat-month / bot-month / GB-month / 25k-credits
ProviderName
Microsoft
PublisherName
Microsoft Corporation
ServiceCategory
Business Applications
ServiceName
Microsoft Power Platform
ServiceSubcategory
Low-Code Platform

Meters

power_apps_premium_seats
Unit: seat-month
Per-user Power Apps Premium subscriptions.
power_automate_premium_seats
Unit: seat-month
Per-user Power Automate Premium subscriptions.
process_bots
Unit: bot-month
Per-bot Process and Hosted Process subscriptions for unattended desktop flows.
power_platform_requests
Unit: request
Daily request entitlement consumed per user (Premium) or per flow (Process), evaluated on a 24-hour sliding window.
copilot_credits
Unit: credit
Microsoft Copilot Studio Credits consumed by custom copilots.
dataverse_storage
Unit: GB-month
Dataverse database, file, and log storage at the tenant level.
process_mining_storage
Unit: GB-month
Process Mining add-on storage capacity.
payg_actions
Unit: action
Pay-as-you-go cloud-flow actions billed when daily PPR limits are exceeded.

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