This blog post is based on the Licensing document released by Microsoft in April 2019. The intent of this blog post is to help you understand the licensing better based on the Office 365 license you currently have.
If you have any of these Office 365 Licenses –
| Office 365 Business Essentials | Office 365 Business Premium | ||
| Office 365 A1 for Students | Office 365 A1 Plus for Faculty | Office 365 A1 Plus for Students | Office 365 A1 for Faculty |
| Office 365 A3 for Faculty | Office 365 A3 for Students | Office 365 A3 for Student Use Benefit | |
| Office 365 A5 for Student Use Benefit | Office 365 A5 | Office 365 A5 for Faculty | Office 365 A5 for Students |
| Office 365 Education E3 for Faculty | Office 365 Education E3 for Students | Office 365 Education for Homeschool for Faculty | Office 365 Education for Homeschool for Students |
| Office 365 Enterprise E1 | Office 365 Enterprise E2 | Office 365 Enterprise E5 | |
| Office 365 Enterprise E3 | Office 365 Enterprise E3 Developer | Office 365 Enterprise E3 without ProPlus |
This means you have –
“PowerApps for Office 365” and “Flow for Office 365” License
which allows you to do all the stuff below –
| PowerApps | |
| Create, run and share apps | ✅ |
| Run canvas apps in context of Office 365 | ✅ |
| Connect to Office 365 data | ✅ |
| Connect to cloud services using standard connectors | ✅ |
| Run apps in a browser or PowerApps mobile for iOS and Android | ✅ |
| Run Canvas apps offline | ✅ |
| Support for data policies established by the Office 365 administrator | ✅ |
| Flow | |
| Create unlimited automated workflows | ✅ |
| Maximum number of runs per month (per user) | 2,000 1 |
| Maximum flow frequency | 5 minutes |
| Create flows from thousands of templates available in the public gallery | ✅ |
| SLA | 99.9% |
| Connect to Office 365, other Microsoft services, and common cloud-based services like Twitter and WordPress using standard connectors | ✅ |
| Access on-premises data using on-premises data gateway | ✅ |
| Invite others to share ownership and run flows | ✅ |
| Access on-premises data or use premium or custom connectors | – |
| Data storage and management in Common Data Service | – |
1 – The number of flow runs is aggregated across all users in the company. If your company exceeds more than the included runs per month per user, you can buy an additional quota of runs per month:
| For every additional: | 50,000 runs |
| Added cost / month: | USD $40.00 |
If you have Office 365 Enterprise F1, you get the below functionalities –
| PowerApps | |
| Create, run and share apps | ✅ |
| Run canvas apps in context of Office 365 | ✅ |
| Connect to Office 365 data | ✅ |
| Connect to cloud services using standard connectors | ✅ |
| Run apps in a browser or PowerApps mobile for iOS and Android | ✅ |
| Run Canvas apps offline | ✅ |
| Support for data policies established by the Office 365 administrator | ✅ |
| Flow | |
| Create unlimited automated workflows | ✅ |
| Maximum number of runs per month (per user) | 750 |
| Maximum flow frequency | 15 minutes |
| Create flows from thousands of templates available in the public gallery | ✅ |
| SLA | NA |
| Connect to Office 365, other Microsoft services, and common cloud-based services like Twitter and WordPress using standard connectors | ✅ |
| Access on-premises data using on-premises data gateway | ✅ |
| Access on-premises data or use premium or custom connectors | – |
| Data storage and management in Common Data Service | – |
Other references used for this post-
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/pricing-billing-skus#licenses
For the pricing for PowerApps and Flow Standalone plans, refer to these links –
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
This post definitely doesn’t cover everything related to licensing and is focused more towards what your existing Office 365 license includes.
Let me know if you have any questions in the comments.