# Power BI

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/power-bi/  
**Website:** https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/developers/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics service that delivers insights to enable fast, informed decisions. It provides interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards.

## Kin Score — 63.0 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 63.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 100.0 |
| Contract Quality | 72.0 |
| Governance | 26.5 |
| Contract Governance | 26.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 61.8 |
| Access Clarity | 61.8 |

## Agent readiness — 48.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **Power BI Embedded** — Azure service that enables ISVs and developers to embed Power BI visuals, reports, and dashboards into their applications.
- **Power BI Management API** — API for managing Power BI capacity, workspaces, and tenant settings.
- **Power BI Push Datasets API** — The Push Datasets API enables real-time data streaming by allowing applications to create push datasets and post rows of data directly into Power BI datasets.
- **Power BI Report Server REST API** — The Power BI Report Server REST API provides programmatic access to report server catalog objects such as folders, reports, KPIs, data sources, datasets, refresh plans, and subs...
- **Power BI Visuals API** — The Power BI Visuals API enables developers to create custom visuals that can be used in Power BI reports and dashboards, extending the built-in visualization capabilities.
- **Power BI Dashboards API** — Manage dashboards including listing, creating, and retrieving tiles. Dashboards are single-page canvases with pinned visualizations.
- **Power BI Datasets API** — Manage datasets including creating, updating, refreshing, and deleting datasets. Datasets represent the data model behind Power BI reports.
- **Power BI Gateways API** — Manage on-premises data gateways and their data sources for connecting to on-premises data.
- **Power BI Groups API** — Manage workspaces (groups) including listing, creating, deleting, and managing workspace users. Workspaces are containers for dashboards, reports, datasets, and dataflows.
- **Power BI Imports API** — Import Power BI content such as PBIX files, Excel workbooks, and RDL reports into workspaces.
- **Power BI Reports API** — Manage reports including listing, cloning, exporting, rebinding, and deleting reports. Reports are visual presentations of data from datasets.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Power BI MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Power Bi Agentic Access** — 36 operations · 14 acting

## Security (4)

- **Power Bi Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Power Bi Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Power Bi Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Power Bi Trust Center** — SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, PCI DSS, HIPAA / HITECH, HITRUST, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR

## Plans (1)

- **Power Bi Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Executive Dashboards** — Provide C-suite executives with real-time KPI dashboards for data-driven decision making.
- **Sales Analytics** — Track sales performance, pipeline metrics, and revenue forecasting with interactive reports.
- **Financial Reporting** — Automate financial reporting with scheduled refreshes and pixel-perfect paginated reports.
- **Embedded Analytics for ISVs** — Embed Power BI visualizations into SaaS applications to provide analytics to end customers.
- **IoT Monitoring** — Visualize real-time IoT sensor data with streaming datasets and live dashboard tiles.
- **HR Analytics** — Analyze workforce metrics, retention rates, and employee engagement across the organization.

## Tags

Analytics, Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Data Analysis, Reporting, Visualization

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/power-bi/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.