Power Apps Pay as you go discussion thread

[Kavishi_MSFT]

Use this thread to share feedback or ask questions about Power Apps Pay-as-you-go.

Pay-as-you-go plan overview - Power Platform | Microsoft Docs

@Shawn_MSFT 

[PowerRanger]

@Kavishi_MSFT 

One of the biggest concerns my customers raise is the fact that if an users launches an app by accident (clicked the wrong link, etc...) it will be charged. This may result in high costs...

Another major "complain" I get is the fact that the meter is counted as per user per app. This in combination with the above may result in unpredicted costs without any use...

[Kavishi_MSFT]

Thank you for the feedback. Totally agree that there might be some cases of accidental app opening and this is something we will continue to monitor via data and feedback and will prioritize improving based on that. Please let us know if you hear that this is a common situation. 

Regarding meter unit, Pay as you go is a per app model, most common for scenarios being where you have one or two apps that are occasional or seasonal. It is also great for cases where one needs to establish the usage pattern before purchasing prepaid licenses. Per user licenses are best suited and economical when users need to use multiple apps. For predicting costs, you should look at how many users are expected to use the app in a month. If no such information is available, then observing trends over a month or two, will provide a great visibility into what the usage patterns are - # of users and # of apps used per users via the detailed report available in Power Platform Admin Center. There are also Azure cost alerts that can be used for cost management, the exact same framework that is used for any Azure product. Check this out: View usage and billing for pay-as-you-go plan - Power Platform | Microsoft Docs. Does this help?

[Irfan]

@Kavishi_MSFT 

We have enabled PAYG feature in one of our Test Environments.

Apps in that environment are open to a learge set of users.

Is it possible to trace down which users (user name or email) had accessed an app and on which date (not after how many users and which date BUT after which user and on which date)

Thanks.

-Irfan

[ginnyh]

It's my understanding that pay-as-you-go isn't available for academic institutions with A3 licenses; can you confirm that? I can't find this documented anywhere but was told that by someone at Microsoft.

If that's true, would it be available under the A5 license?

[MattyJ_09]

I'm not sure if you're still looking for a solution but what I have done is for the App OnStart patch the user's email, app name, and date.  I'm not sure if this will work in your scenario but it will also be a per app solution.  I have a screenshot below of what I'm doing to tag this information.  

Then what I would do is create a Power BI report that you can visualize this information.  

[Flospeakman]

We have a question about an environment becoming "pay as you go" as soon as you turn it on.  Does adding a pay as you go for power apps eliminate the dataverse/file/log storage that comes with an instance of say a Sales Enterprise license (10GB for the instance and then 250MB for every license after that).  

[borhot]

HI,

Any dates for when the Power Platform Requests meter will go GA and we will start getting billed for the usage for Pay as you go?

Thanks