Costs- Dev/Test Lab PowerApp/Dataverse

[useruk1]

Hi all,

I am looking to get pricing for two developers in a dev/test sandbox tenant on Azure both using PowerApps and data verse. How much would this cost per month?

Thanks

[useruk1]

@ivan_apps thanks for this! How can I accurately estimate the cost in pricing calculator?

Do I need to select the product Microsoft Dev Box? Then counting on two developers have two dev boxes as below? How can I forecast for the compute element when powerapps and dataverse are involved, or do I just need to pay attention to the storage that will incur costs? Thanks

[useruk1]

thanks for this! How can I accurately estimate the cost in pricing calculator?

Do I need to select the product Microsoft Dev Box? Then counting on two developers have two dev boxes as below? How can I forecast for the compute element when powerapps and dataverse are involved, or do I just need to pay attention to the storage that will incur costs?

thanks for this! How can I accurately estimate the cost in pricing calculator?

Do I need to select the product Microsoft Dev Box? Then counting on two developers have two dev boxes as below? How can I forecast for the compute element when powerapps and dataverse are involved, or do I just need to pay attention to the storage that will incur costs? I'm really looking to get a final estimate for costs 

Thanks

[ivan_apps · Accepted solution]

No, you have to remember that Power Apps and Dataverse is a Software-as-a-Service product and a low-code platform. To get started you don't need a Dev Box. That's basically a virtual machine that can come pre-loaded with developer tools and software for "pro-code" use. Unless you already know that your developers will need to create C# plugins, custom code connectors, or PCF controls AND they can't run that software on their work laptops or PCs... then it's a waste of money in my opinion.

All you really need to have to create Power Apps with Dataverse is a browser and decent internet speeds (once licensing is taken care of). VSCode is useful for JavaScript or Power Automate expressions, but that is a free tool. Buying a subscription to GitHub or Azure DevOps would be more beneficial for source control and CI/CD than a dev box in my opinion. 

Since you are buying a SaaS product license - you don't need to worry about compute power, the platform auto-scales for you based on demand. The only thing you have to take into account is License counts, and how much storage you consume for dev purposes, which should be minimal.

Once you start planning for Production use - then you take into account more variables for planning - what type of apps are you making, whats the user base for each app and total it for the organization, what's your projected growth rate for the DB based on app usage, and does that exceed the DB capacity granted per user (n# users * 250MBs). It's a guessing game at the beginning and you'll have to monitor or set up alerts to monitor capacity usage in the Power Platform Admin Center. Then buy add-ons or licenses as necessary.  If your devs know they will need azure resources, they should be able to tell you what specifically so you can price those things out.

[Jmanriquerios · Accepted solution]

Hi @useruk1 

If exactly it has $ associated with it for consumption of azure services and resources.

[useruk1]

@ivan_apps 

As I see it in the new development environment, we need the below:

1 PowerApps Premium Plan account
1 M365 E3 equivalent account
2 service accounts with PowerApps Premium Plan
Small Azure SQL Database
1 service account with Power BI Pro
1 Power BI Free

Any idea around how to get costs for this? Thanks

[useruk1]

@Jmanriquerios 

As I see it in the new development environment, we need the below:

1 PowerApps Premium Plan account
1 M365 E3 equivalent account
2 service accounts with PowerApps Premium Plan
Small Azure SQL Database
1 service account with Power BI Pro
1 Power BI Free

Any idea around how to get costs for this? Thanks

[ivan_apps]

Power apps Premium $20 per month per user - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

Power Automate Premium $15 per user per month. https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

Power BI Pro $10 per user per month - https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/#features-compare-charts

M365 E3 $36 per user per month, E5 $57 per user per month. Note that E5 includes Power BI Pro.

I’m not sure why you need azure SQL if you are buying Power Apps Premium, which would give you Dataverse included, but if you have a special need for it, pricing is here- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-sql-database/single/

you pay for storage and how long the Azure SQL is running, as well as how beefy you want it to be, depending on what you want to do with it. Processing cores can range in price quite a lot.