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Power BI Embedded

85Judge labels
4First choices
33Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in Embedded analytics for enterprise buyers
Rank 14 of 72 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 41% of its 27 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Power BI Embedded →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In embedded analytics · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Power BI Embedded for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Embedded analyticsData platform2%14 of 7241%27criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Power BI Embedded yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Power BI Embedded across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.502114
GPT-5.4 mini01102
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast02024
Mistral Small10102
DeepSeek V4 Flash00033
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K201113
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500011
GPT-6 Luna02013
Muse Glimmer 30B02002

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct15 labelsNone
Paraphrase24 labels2
Comparative14 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels2
Scale-constrained10 labelsNone
Negative13 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative85 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Power BI Embedded and Explo are the top recommendations due to their ease of integration, strong security, and focus on customer-facing analytics” Mistral Small · Embedded analytics · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“capacity-based pricing that scales without per-viewer cost and represents the strongest economic model in the market for external sharing at scale” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Embedded analytics · direct prompt · alternative
“Microsoft-heavy environments favor Power BI Embedded for native Azure integration and broad connector support.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Embedded analytics · comparative prompt · alternative
“If you're in Microsoft/Salesforce ecosystems, lean Power BI Embedded (~$1/hr capacity) or Tableau.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Embedded analytics · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Note that setting up true external multi-tenancy and matching your app's exact UI/UX in these legacy tools can be complex and expensive.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Embedded analytics · scale prompt · soft negative
“Cons: Multi-tenancy challenges. ... unless you pay for dedicated capacity units (which gets expensive quickly).” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Embedded analytics · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Capacity-based pricing explodes with growth (platform fees); Copilot/AI limited in embedded mode” Grok 4.1 Fast · Embedded analytics · negative prompt · soft negative
“Tier 3 (Fastest time-to-value, some limitations): Power BI Embedded, Tableau Embedded, Domo” Kimi K2 · Embedded analytics · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Power BI Embedded, over the 85 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Power BI Embedded was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Sisense48 of 859Not among the top eight
Looker42 of 852Not among the top eight
Metabase38 of 8516Not among the top eight
Luzmo38 of 857Not among the top eight
ThoughtSpot Embedded38 of 853Not among the top eight
Tableau Embedded Analytics31 of 850Not among the top eight
GoodData28 of 856Not among the top eight
Embeddable21 of 851Not among the top eight
Tableau20 of 850Not among the top eight
Qrvey17 of 854Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Power BI Embedded. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 82 of the 85 answers that named Power BI Embedded and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

holistics.io52
luzmo.com46
embeddable.com40
zoho.com40
omni.co38
peliqan.io37
querio.ai35
thoughtspot.com32
cube.dev30
explo.co28

No domain is on file for Power BI Embedded, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Power BI Embedded stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
590 a month (“power bi embedded”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
104 a month
Its own site
No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 14 of 72 in embedded analytics
Segment leader
22%
Metabase
First choices
4 across its categories
Named in
85 answers
Its own site cited
No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Power BI Embedded

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Power BI Embedded; a claim can dispute any of them.
Power BI Embedded (Microsoft) 2Power BI Embedded / Tableau (Salesforce) 1

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  • where Power BI Embedded is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Power BI Embedded, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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