The short version: Power Pages is licensed by monthly user capacity, not per site, as at 22 September 2026. An authenticated capacity pack covers 100 unique logged-in users a month for NZ$323.60; an anonymous pack covers 500 unique visitors for NZ$121.30. Both bundle a slice of Dataverse storage, and provisioning the site itself needs no separate capacity at all.
100 authenticated users, 500 anonymous, per pack
| Capacity type | Users per pack | Price, NZD per month |
|---|---|---|
| Authenticated per user/website | 100 users | NZ$323.60 |
| Anonymous per user/website | 500 users | NZ$121.30 |
| Pay-as-you-go, per user | Whoever actually turns up | USD 4 authenticated, USD 0.30 anonymous |
| Minimum assignable per environment | 25 authenticated / 200 anonymous | Same subscriptions, split across sites |
An authenticated Power Pages capacity pack covers 100 logged-in users a month for NZ$323.60, as at 22 September 2026, on a site licensed and billed in NZD. The pay-as-you-go alternative, billed through Azure at USD 4 a authenticated user and USD 0.30 a anonymous user, suits a site whose traffic is lumpy rather than steady, such as a portal three clients use hard one month and nobody touches the next. I've worked the full cost comparison, including when a capacity pack beats pay-as-you-go and when a Power Pages site is the wrong tool altogether, in what Power Pages actually costs a small NZ business.
What one unit actually means
An authenticated user is a unique person who logs in through an authentication provider at least once in a calendar month, tracked against the ID of their Dataverse contact record. Logging in every day that month still counts as one user, not thirty, which is the opposite of the old Power Apps portals model that counted every login. An anonymous user is a unique visitor identified by a cookie in their browser; using a different browser, a different device, or clearing that cookie creates a fresh anonymous user even if it's the same person. A sign-in page on its own doesn't need an anonymous licence at all, as long as the rest of the site sits behind authentication.
Where a site mixes internal staff and outside customers or contractors, the licence for each internal user can instead come from an existing Power Apps per-user plan or a Dynamics 365 enterprise licence, in which case that person doesn't count against the Power Pages authenticated capacity at all. That's the same trade-off worth checking before pricing a build: what a Power Pages site actually costs in NZD walks through it with real numbers.
The Dataverse storage bundled in
Unlike the older Power Apps portals licensing, which needed a separate 1 GB of Dataverse capacity just to provision an extra website, a Power Pages capacity pack bundles storage in. An authenticated capacity pack adds 2 GB of Dataverse database storage and 16 GB of file storage per pack; an anonymous pack adds 500 MB of database and 4 GB of file storage per pack, both on top of a flat 5 GB database baseline included per tenant. For a site expecting to store meaningful attachments or list data rather than just log-ins, that storage allocation is worth checking against Dataverse's own capacity rules before assuming the pack covers everything.
Common questions
How many users come in one Power Pages capacity pack?
100 users in an authenticated pack, 500 in an anonymous pack, each priced per month. On a New Zealand site that's NZ$323.60 for the authenticated pack and NZ$121.30 for the anonymous pack.
What counts as one authenticated or anonymous Power Pages user?
An authenticated user is a unique contact who logs in through an authentication provider at least once in a calendar month; logging in five times that month still counts as one. An anonymous user is a unique visitor identified by a browser cookie who never logs in; clearing cookies or switching devices creates a new anonymous user.
Does a Power Pages capacity pack include Dataverse storage?
Yes. Each authenticated capacity pack adds 2 GB of Dataverse database and 16 GB of file storage; each anonymous pack adds 500 MB of database and 4 GB of file storage, on top of a flat 5 GB database baseline per tenant. Provisioning the website itself needs no separate Dataverse capacity.
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