Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence product from Microsoft for building dashboards and data visualizations used in reporting and analysis
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
BambooHR is first at 46%.
ChartHop is first at 23%.
Visier is first at 65%.
Why models recommend it
“Power BI is likely the cheapest if you already have clean data and someone who can build reports.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Choose Power BI/Tableau if you have limited budget, strong internal data analyst support”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“start with your current HRIS, or use Power BI on a governed data source”GPT-6 Luna · Paraphrase question · alternative
“The Data Team Option: Power BI or Tableau”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“If you want more customization (but requires more internal effort).”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Power BI, over the 34 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 11 | View → | |
| 21 | 6 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 4 | View → | |
| 16 | 2 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 3 | View → | |
| 12 | 2 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 26 of the 34 answers that named Microsoft Power BI and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Microsoft Power BI, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |