# Isn't accessing reports without a PRO license only possible from the F64?

### Introduction

A very common question is about F64/P1 and Embedded licensing.

Some customers believe that only using F64/P1 licensing or higher allows them to access reports without having a PRO license. Others believe that even with Fabric, you still need to have a Power BI Embedded capability, or that you can only embed the reports if you have a certain capability.

Let's now explain exactly how this licensing works.

### The F64 and P1 capacities

Users can access reports through the Power BI service in a workspace associated with an F64 capacity or above (or Premium per Capacity = P1), using free accounts, without the need to have Pro accounts for each user. And this is true.

If you have a Power BI Embedded or Microsoft Fabric license that is smaller than F64, in order for users to access reports through **the Power BI portal (app.powerbi.com)**, you do need them **all to have a Power BI PRO license.**

However, when we talk about Embedded Analytics and Power Embedded, we find cheaper alternatives for this licensing.

### Using Embedded Analytics to reduce costs

Even when using a capacity below F64, with F2, F4, F8, etc. or a Power BI Embedded capacity, you can view Power BI reports via the Power Embedded portal instead of accessing the reports via the Power BI portal (app.powerbi.com).

**Using the Power Embedded portal, your users will NOT need to have PRO licenses to access the reports inserted in the web applications.**

**Any Fabric or Power BI Embedded capability allows you to view the reports in Power Embedded**, and your users can view the reports using any email, without needing a Microsoft account or any per-user license (PRO or PPU).

In this [link here](https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-embedded-with-microsoft-fabric/?cdn=disable), Microsoft shows that Microsoft Fabric can also be used normally to insert reports into third-party applications in any capacity size.

<figure><img src="https://2731617315-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FdK3JKuIebMeMb9nnUas8%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-3f5f7fed59b782f00870982674e466366d00beca%2Fimage%20(405).png?alt=media" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Talking about capacity licensing, in the [link below](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/power-bi-embedded/), Microsoft makes it very clear that users who are viewing content published in Power BI Embedded do not need Power BI licenses assigned to them, so a PRO license is not required to view reports through Power Embedded.

<figure><img src="https://2731617315-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FdK3JKuIebMeMb9nnUas8%2Fuploads%2FPIJwc0GOijnv8CO7OVO7%2Ffaq.png?alt=media&#x26;token=ef793acd-8ded-4f03-aa1e-7d82ffb5bacf" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>