How much does Dataverse cost in 2026?

Dataverse has no price tag of its own. You get it through a licence: Power Apps Premium at $20 per user a month, a Dynamics 365 customer-engagement app from $50 to $195 per user a month, Power Automate Premium at $15, or pay-as-you-go at $10 per active user per app. Each licence adds storage to a tenant-wide pool. Above the pool, Microsoft sells database capacity at $40 per GB a month, file at $2 and log at $10. The file pool, and an estimator for it, is in Dataverse file storage pricing. All figures are US list prices, paid yearly, and were checked on 13 October 2026.

The short answer

Sources for every row are in the sections below and listed at the end. Microsoft’s pricing pages carry a “for informational purposes” disclaimer, and the price you see at checkout depends on region, currency and agreement, so treat these as the starting point for a quote, not the quote.

Ways to get Dataverse

Power Apps Premium

The general-purpose licence. Microsoft lists Power Apps Premium at $20.00 per user per month, paid yearly, and $12.00 per user per month for 2,000 or more new licences. It covers unlimited apps and portals for that user, premium connectors and Dataverse. The Power Platform Licensing Guide (October 2026, p. 7) says the same.

Power Apps pay-as-you-go

If you would rather not commit to seats, an environment can be linked to an Azure subscription and billed through pay-as-you-go meters: $10 per active user per app per month, counted only for users who do not already hold a Premium or Dynamics 365 licence. The same meters bill Dataverse storage above a small included amount, at a higher rate than the add-ons, which the worked examples below show.

Power Apps per app: end of sale

The $5 per-user-per-app plan that many small deployments ran on reached end of sale on 2 January 2026. Existing Enterprise Agreement customers can renew it, MPSA customers get a 60-day migration window after their term, and the SKU was restored to the CSP price list in April 2026. It no longer appears on the public pricing page or in the October 2026 Licensing Guide. The per-app option for everyone else is now the $10 pay-as-you-go meter.

Dynamics 365

Every Dynamics 365 customer engagement app runs on Dataverse and includes it. Microsoft lists Sales Professional at $65, Sales Enterprise at $105 and Sales Premium at $150 per user per month, paid yearly. The Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide (October 2026) lists Customer Service Professional at $50, Enterprise at $105 and Premium at $195, and Field Service at $105. These rose on 1 October 2024: Sales Enterprise went from $95 to $105, Sales Premium from $135 to $150. A Dynamics 365 licence also gives the tenant a larger default storage pool than Power Apps does.

Power Automate

Flows that read or write Dataverse need a Power Automate licence or a Power Apps licence that covers the flow. Microsoft lists Premium at $15.00 per user per month, Process at $150.00 per bot per month and Hosted Process at $215.00, paid yearly. A per-flow plan at $100 per flow per month, five-flow minimum, is in the Licensing Guide (p. 9). Pay-as-you-go runs are $0.60 for cloud or attended flows and $3.00 for unattended. Premium and Process licences each bring Dataverse capacity; the table in the next section has the figures.

Power Pages

External users reach Dataverse through Power Pages, priced per site by monthly users: $200 per pack of 100 authenticated users and $75 per pack of 500 anonymous users per site per month, paid yearly, with volume tiers down to $50 and $25. Pay-as-you-go is $4 per authenticated and $0.30 per anonymous active user per site per month.

Free, with limits

Two routes cost nothing and are not for production. The Power Apps Developer Plan gives up to three developer environments with 2 GB of database each and 750 flow runs a month, no add-ons, and the environment is disabled after 30 days without use. Dataverse for Teams, included with eligible Microsoft 365 licences, gives each Teams environment 2 GB of combined database and file capacity, roughly a million rows; when it fills, nothing new can be created, and the only way to buy more is to upgrade the environment to full Dataverse.

What capacity is included

Dataverse storage is billed as three separate pools: database (rows and table definitions), file (attachments, notes, file and image columns) and log (audit). Each has a tenant default, set once by the first qualifying subscription, plus an accrual for every eligible user licence. The pool is tenant-wide: production and sandbox environments draw from it together, while Teams, trial, developer and support environments count as zero. The default environment has its own allowance of 3 GB database, 3 GB file and 1 GB log. The capacity report counts only what that environment uses above the allowance.

Sources: Power Platform Licensing Guide pp. 19–20, Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide pp. 29 and 51, and the Power Platform licensing FAQ. One inconsistency to know about: the Licensing Guide table says default database capacity rose from 10 GB to 20 GB in November 2025, but the guide’s own worked example and several Microsoft Learn pages still say 10 GB. The file default, 20 GB, is the same in both places. Use the number in the Power Platform admin center, not whichever document you opened last. Defaults are not cumulative: a second subscription type does not add a second default.

What you pay above it

Capacity above the pool is bought in 1 GB increments, billed annually, at the prices in the licensing FAQ and the Licensing Guide (p. 21). Environments on pay-as-you-go are metered instead, above 1 GB of database and 1 GB of file included per environment, at about 20 percent more per GB.

The ratio is the point. A gigabyte of database costs twenty times a gigabyte of file. Attachments stored as notes land in file, so they are cheap; audit history lands in log; anything you keep as rows, including integration staging tables, plug-in traces and old activities, lands in database at $480 a year per GB. The file storage cost article covers the file pool in detail, with an estimator. Beyond storage, the only other Dataverse-specific add-on with a list price is the Power Platform Requests pack: 10,000 requests a day for $50 a month.

When you run over

Microsoft’s capacity page says the admin center warns at 15 percent and 5 percent remaining and again above 100 percent. Spare capacity is borrowed in the order database, log, file, and nothing can cover a database deficit. While the needed pool is short you cannot create, copy, restore or recover an environment, convert a trial to paid, or add a database to an environment; each of those needs at least 1 GB free. The same page describes a storage overage lifecycle that Microsoft is rolling out: at the day you exceed 100 percent those operations are blocked; 30 days later the affected sandbox environments become admin-only; 90 days later sign-in to those sandboxes is blocked, with data retained. Production environments are not disabled, and sandboxes linked to pay-as-you-go are exempt.

Three worked examples

Dataverse only, US list prices, paid yearly. Licence spend and storage spend are shown separately because they move independently, and the second is the one that surprises people.

What changed in 2025 and 2026

• 2 January 2026: Power Apps per app ($5) reached end of sale on the public price list. Enterprise Agreement customers can renew; the SKU returned to the CSP list in April 2026.
• November 2025: the Licensing Guide records the tenant default database capacity rising from 10 GB to 20 GB for Power Apps and Power Automate Premium.
• 1 November 2025: the AI Builder capacity add-on (1 million credits for $500 a month) reached end of sale; seeded credits stop on 1 November 2026, and AI Builder usage is billed in Copilot Credits at $0.01 each on pay-as-you-go.
• Rolling out: the three-stage storage overage lifecycle described above, announced through the Message Center.
• 1 October 2024: Dynamics 365 list prices rose, Sales and Customer Service Enterprise to $105 and Sales Premium to $150. No Power Apps or Power Automate list-price change has been announced for 2025 or 2026 at the time of writing.

Questions people ask

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Related reading

• Dataverse file storage cost in 2026The file pool in detail, with an estimator and the ways to shrink it.
• Per-environment vs per-seat licensing for Dataverse add-onsWhere the crossover sits and five questions to ask a vendor.
• Dynamics 365 document generation tools comparedNine options with the price each vendor publishes.
• PricingEvery licence, implementation and change price we publish, in one place.

Sources

Microsoft pricing pages, licensing guides and documentation this article relies on (checked 8 October 2026; the Dynamics 365 range, the default-environment allowance and the worked examples were corrected on 13 October 2026):

1. Power Apps pricing, microsoft.com
2. Power Automate pricing, microsoft.com
3. Power Pages pricing, microsoft.com
4. Dynamics 365 Sales pricing, microsoft.com
5. Dynamics 365 Customer Service pricing, microsoft.com
6. Power Platform Licensing Guide, October 2026 (PDF), pp. 7, 9, 19–22 and Appendix C, Microsoft
7. Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide, October 2026 (PDF), pp. 29 and 51, Microsoft
8. Power Platform licensing FAQs, Microsoft Learn
9. Pay-as-you-go meters, Microsoft Learn
10. Dataverse capacity-based storage details, Microsoft Learn
11. Power Apps per app plan end of sale, Microsoft Licensing
12. Partner Center announcements, March 2026, Microsoft Learn
13. New pricing for Dynamics 365 effective October 2024, Microsoft
14. End of AI Builder credits, Microsoft Learn
15. Power Apps Developer Plan, Microsoft Learn
16. About the Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environment, Microsoft Learn