Test the waters

When building enterprise flows that is shared with a large set of users in your organization, it is often tough to predict how many users will want to use it. Now you can start with the pay-as-you-go option to gauge usage patterns then determine whether purchasing a pre-paid Power Automate subscription plan makes sense.

Share costs across your organization

Many organizations want to allocate software license costs to the department or team that used the licenses.  Pay-as-you-go makes this possible by letting teams pay for flow runs using Azure subscriptions linked to their own departmental budgets, and by providing the option to use Azure Cost Management and Azure tags to visualize and divide up costs.

Setting up Power Automate pay-as-you-go plan enables users to build and run premium Power Automate flows and to pay for their usage using Azure subscription based on the number of times these flows run.

Users and flows with standalone licenses will not incur charges for running flows. This means that you can simultaneously leverage the per user plan to license some users of your flows in a pay-as-you-go environment while also using the Power Automate pay-as-you-go meter to cover for seasonal/occasional usage. You can review usage reporting for Power Automate pay-as-you-go meters in the downloadable pay-as-you-go consumption report from the Power Platform admin center and move users to standalone licenses for optimal pricing.  For more details about how flow run charges work please review our documentation.

To make it easy to test and fix your flows no charges will be incurred if you’re testing your flow in the designer or resubmitting failed runs. Additionally, if you use the child flow feature for cloud flows or attended desktop flows, there will only be a single charge for the parent flow run, no charges will be incurred for child flow runs.

In addition to Power Automate, other services like Power Apps and Dataverse are available in a pay-as-you-go model offering flexible licensing across the Power Platform.

If your organization already has one or more Power Platform pay-as-you-go environments configured, Power Automate pay-as-you-go will be enabled for all those environments and any Power Automate usage in those environments that qualifies based on our documentation, will result in charges to your Azure subscription.

Check out this video for a deep dive on Power Automate Pay-as-you-go plan

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You can change the owner to an individual or an Azure Active Directory service account. If the flow is using a service account, see here for guidance on licensing service accounts.

To change the owner, first select a solution flow and edit the flow details section:

Next, remove the current owner and search for the new owner:

If the flow is a scheduled or Automated flow, once the owner is changed, the flow will run under the license of the new owner and use their Power Platform request limits. If the flow is a manual flow, the flow will run under the license of the user who runs the flow. The Plan section shows whose license plan is used by the flow.

This change is limited to solution flows. For changing the owner of a non-solution flow, the flow must be exported and imported by the new owner. Check out this video to learn how to export and import as new owner.

For more details, see the documentation here.

Happy Automating!

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First let us clarify a bit on the self-assisted premium trial that we are referring here.

As we know, Power Automate premium trials allow individual users to get hands-on experience on all the Power Automate premium features, including analyzing their processes and creating unlimited cloud flows, plus automating legacy applications through robotic process automation (RPA) and AI. However, some people might not know is that, Power Automate offers 2 separate channels to start premium trials.

1. The first channel to obtain RPA trials is centrally managed by organization admins from Microsoft 365 admin center.  Admins could obtain 25 seats of the free  Power Automate per user plan with attended RPA trial, as well as the Power Automate unattended RPA add-on trial. The admins then could assign those attended RPA trials to 25 individual makers, and assign the unattended add-ons to targeted environments in order to get thing fully setup for the makers to use. Click here to learn more. The admin managed trials will start with 30 days, and could be extended once to a total 60 days, before doing actual purchasing.
2. There is also a 2nd channel to start RPA trials, which is the 90-days self-assisted premium trial that we are referring to for today’s enhancement. Everyone in the organization should be able to obtain these trials for themselves and start building automations (unless admins have disabled any trials to get started within the whole organization).

For an individual user to get started with the self-assisted premium trial, you can click the Start free trial links from one of the following user interfaces:

1) From the pricing page  click the Try free link under Per-user plan with attended RPA

2) Or, from the Power Automate portal desktop flow page, click start a free trial link.

You are all set! It may take some minutes to get all license information synced up, but you should be ready to go and run both attended and unattended scenarios on your machine without additional cost for 90 days!

After your trial expired, you will have a few options: either ask your admin to purchase a paid attended RPA plan and assign to you, or directly purchase an attended RPA plan using your own credit card. Read more about direct purchase here. (Note: currently we don’t support direct purchase on unattended RPA add-on yet. Therefore in order to purchase unattended RPA add-on, you will still need to go through your admin channel.)

Hope this article helps you get started with Power Automate premium trials, and we are excited to learn what you build!

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Report in Power Platform Admin Center

Are you wondering how many AI Builder add-on you need to purchase for your business? The AI Builder calculator allows you to perform an upfront assessment. Administrators need to compare this with the actual usage of their organization so they can adjust along the way.

Sign in to the  Power Platform Admin Center and open the Capacity menu. Here,  you can access a new feature that allows you to download an Excel report containing the AI Builder consumption.

You can select the target date, which means you can get the data for the 30 days preceding.

Once the report is ready, you can download the report as an Excel file.

The report will show your credits consumed by day and by environment.

You can compare the aggregated consumption for current calendar month on each environment with what has been allocated. Using this information, you can take action to allocate more credits to environments that are in overage.

Remember, the number of allocated credits by environment is visible and can be changed from the Add-ons page in the Power Platform Admin Center.

Learn more about AI Builder licensing and AI Builder Consumption Reporting.

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