How much does this Power Pages actually cost?

[TxTechnician]

Once again Microsoft chose to make their licensing model as confusing as possible. 

Here is their overview:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/powerapps-flow-licensing-faq#portals

I'm looking at using Power Pages to build a website for a client.

In Microsoft's pricing overview they list:

External user (authenticated)	Per login	Power Apps Portals login capacity add-on	100 logins	$200	All	A login provides the authenticated user with access to a single portal for up to 24 hours
		Power Apps Portals login capacity add-on Tier 2	1000 logins	$1000	All
		Power Apps Portals login capacity add-on Tier 3	5000 logins	$3500	CSP only
External user (anonymous)	Per page view	Power Apps Portals page view capacity add-on	100,000 page views	$100	All
Internal user	Via license	Dynamics 365 (various)	n/a	n/a	n/a	Custom portal use rights are aligned with custom app use rights
		Power Apps per app plan
		Power Apps per user plan

See the red one?  What does that even mean?  Will they charge my customer if they hit 100,000 views after a set amount of time?  Is this concurrent views.  Is the cost auto opt in?  As in they will charge you whether you want it or not. 

I had assumed I would be able to create a website using the PowerApps Portals feature.  Seeing these additional line items is very confusing. 

Someone mind clarifying? 

[JohnSaxton]

Adipod, 

100 users / site / month means  - 100 unique users for the entire website for the month. The next month the unique user count starts all over again.  Doesn't matter how many pages or pageviews your site has. It doesn't matter how many times the same user logs in. The capacity license is only looking at unique users per month.

A site is defined as the base URL so https://<site1>.mysite.com is a website. https://<site2>.mysite.com is a second website and so on. Each would require its own capacity licenses. Basically each new Power Pages portal app that you create becomes its own website. 
https://powerpages.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ 

[JohnSaxton]

It's not by pageview. It is by unique users https://powerpages.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

[TxTechnician]

The wording they had the time of writing this was confusing.

So, I assume that they mean:

Anonymous User:  A user who can login to your website, but doesn't have an account authenticated with your Microsoft tenant. 

Correct?

[ap-ug-hagedorn]

oh sorry, used my other account…

Ok, I meant something like https://subdomain.mysite.com/page1

https://subdomain.mysite.com/page2

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does their ‚site‘ include all my subpages in this webproject? Reading your answer I would say I would pay „only“ $200 for 100 registered users. What would be OK in our case…

[KH_2437]

So you basically need a license for each website you create in a dataverse. You can have as many child pages as you wish of this. 

[KH_2437]

Define 'login'? There is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.

[TxTechnician]

If you head to my website:  www.txtechnician.com

There's an option to create a user account.  These are "unlicensed users" (anonymous users) I suppose would be the parlance in Microsoft Speak.

Meaning they can view my pages, lookup their account info, take courses, participate in forums, etc...  But they don't have any form of admin access to the website.  Someone with admin access would be a "Authenticated User".

So, an "Auth User" and a "Unlicensed User" could both login.  But only one actually has a paid license. 

I cannot imagine another way that Microsoft would be able to track (accurately) anonymous users ("unlicensed users"). 

If they are in-fact logging any site visitor who isn't logged in as an anonymous/unlicensed user....   Well, any script kiddie can spin up a web scrapping tool and anonymize their IP address to quickly rack up "Page Views from Anonymous Users".  (why, some ppl just wanna create havoc.) (I could be completely wrong.  I have no idea how Microsoft is tracking the anonymous users.  And would really like a detailed explanation.)

Microsoft's chosen wording makes it seem that you'd be paying per view.  Which is luda. 

I have a client meeting in about an hour.  And I'm pitching two different platforms to build their new site on.  Microsoft Power Pages wont be one of them.  Which is a shame.  Because my clients love the PowerApps I'm making.  I'd love to be able to tie all services I offer in one ecosystem. 

[ap-ug-hagedorn]

I understood they track anonymous users by cookies. If someone visits your solution they place a cookie. If someone with cookie comes back it is still the same anonymous user. But someone deletes his cookies maybe daily they are tracked each day of the month worst case…

[JohnSaxton]

In your example page1 and page 2 would be part of the same site. If you have page 3 ... page 100  for https://subdomain.mysite.com... they would also be part of the same site. 

If you were to create another pages website say https://subdomain2.mysite.com ... that would be considered a second site and would require its own licenses. 

[TxTechnician]

Do you have a reference for this?