Transparent, Fixed-Fee Pricing

Power BI consulting costs range from $150-$400/hour for senior consultants at boutique firms specializing in Power BI, $200-$600/hour at mid-tier consultancies, and $300-$800/hour at big-four firms. Fixed-price projects: dashboard builds start at $15,000-$40,000; DAX performance audits $15,000-$50,000; enterprise rollouts $200,000-$1,500,000+. Managed services retainers $3,000-$60,000/month. 90-day fixed-scope pilots $25,000-$75,000. Our transparent pricing eliminates the hourly-billing ambiguity: every engagement starts with a scoped assessment and a fixed-price SOW.

Microsoft Fabric consulting costs run $175-$450/hour for senior consultants at boutique firms specializing in Fabric, $250-$650/hour at mid-tier consultancies, and $350-$900/hour at big-four firms. Fixed-price engagements: 30-day capacity audits start at $15,000; departmental Fabric rollouts $50,000-$150,000; enterprise migrations from Synapse or Databricks $250,000-$1,500,000+. 90-day fixed-scope pilots run $40,000-$75,000 and include capacity sizing plus a bounded proof-of-value use case.

Power BI licensing options (separate from consulting): (1) Power BI Free — for consumers of personal reports only; (2) Power BI Pro — $14/user/month, required to publish content to others; (3) Power BI Premium Per User (PPU) — $24/user/month, adds AI features, larger models, dataflows; (4) Microsoft Fabric F-SKU capacity — $262/mo (F2) through $268,903/mo (F2048), F64+ includes free Power BI Pro seats for all users. For organizations with 50+ Power BI users, Fabric F64 ($8,403/mo) is typically more cost-effective than Power BI Pro seats.

Microsoft is transitioning Power BI Premium capacity SKUs (P1/P2/P3) to Microsoft Fabric F-SKUs. Fabric F64 ($8,403/mo pay-as-you-go) matches old P1 capacity plus adds all Fabric workloads (Data Engineering, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Science). Reserved capacity discounts are up to 41% for 1-year commitments. For organizations with 50+ Power BI users, F64 pays back in year 1 by eliminating per-user Pro seat charges. For advanced analytics organizations, F64 replaces separate Synapse + Data Factory + Databricks + Power BI Premium billing.

Yes. Every engagement starts with a scoped assessment where we define deliverables, timelines, and price before work begins. The price in the SOW is the price you pay. If we underestimate, that is our problem, not yours. This structure eliminates the runaway T&M billing that clients often experience with big-four consulting engagements.

These are starting points. Most enterprise clients need custom scoping. We provide a free 30-minute assessment call and deliver a fixed-price proposal within 5 business days. For engagements over $250,000, we offer phased pricing with go/no-go gates between phases — you commit to Phase 1 and can walk away before Phase 2 if it does not deliver value.

Yes. Monthly retainers: Basic ($3,000-$5,000/mo) for 10 hours/month with break-fix and refresh support; Standard ($8,000-$15,000/mo) for 30 hours/month including 1-2 new dashboards per quarter and quarterly capacity reviews; Enterprise ($20,000-$60,000/mo) for dedicated senior consultant, 24/7 on-call, unlimited support, and executive reporting. Most clients move to retainers because ROI compounds over time — a well-run retainer typically reduces total analytics cost of ownership 20-40% in year 1.

Our SOW defines exact deliverables and acceptance criteria. Any scope additions require a written change order with cost approved before work begins. In 500+ engagements, fewer than 5% required change orders. Common scope-creep sources we prevent: (1) surprise data-quality work — we scope data-source discovery upfront; (2) additional stakeholder requirements — we lock stakeholder list in the SOW; (3) integration surprises — we scope source-system access as pre-work.

A 30-minute call where we review your current environment, identify quick wins, and outline a realistic roadmap. No obligation, no pressure. We deliver a written proposal within 5 business days including: (1) target-state architecture sketch; (2) recommended engagement structure (audit, pilot, or full rollout); (3) fixed-price options with clear deliverables; (4) references from similar engagements. Book via our contact form.