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Power BI Q&A is retired in February 2027

Power BI Q&A experiences are being retired in February 2027, with Copilot for Power BI recommended as the replacement.

107days until February 2027
Act by
Oct 4, 2026
window passed: act now

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Who’s affected

Power BI teams that use Q&A visuals, Q&A in dashboards, or Q&A as a self-service way for business users to ask questions of semantic models. The record lists no specific plans, so assume any tenant using Q&A is affected.

Not affected: Teams that have never used Q&A visuals or Q&A-based experiences in their reports and dashboards.

What it costs

The record gives no price change. The cost is migration effort: finding Q&A usage, rebuilding those experiences, and possibly paying for Copilot for Power BI, whose licensing and capacity requirements you should confirm with Microsoft.

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When to act

The date is only stated as February 2027, so plan against 2027-02-01 and leave time to inventory Q&A usage, test Copilot, and retrain users before the cutoff.

Blast radius: Dashboards and reports with Q&A visuals will lose that functionality. Linguistic schema and synonym tuning built for Q&A may no longer be useful. Business users will need new ways to ask ad hoc questions.

What should you do? decision tree

  1. you don't know where Q&A is used in your tenant
    Inventory reports and dashboards for Q&A visuals and Q&A entry points, and rank them by user traffic.
  2. Q&A is used in few or low-traffic reports
    Remove or replace those visuals with standard filters, slicers or a curated report page before February 2027.
  3. business users depend on natural-language questions
    Pilot Copilot for Power BI, the replacement Microsoft recommends, and check its license and capacity requirements before committing.
  4. copilot isn't affordable or doesn't fit your governance rules
    Build curated self-service reports on your semantic models, or evaluate other BI tools with natural-language querying.

Options

Alternatives editorial picks, not sponsored

TableauMature BI platform for teams that want to move off Power BI.
SigmaCloud warehouse-native BI that suits self-service business users.
OmniSemantic-layer BI for data teams that want governed self-service.
LookerGoverned LookML modeling for centralized, model-driven analytics.

The facts straight from the source

Vendor / product
Microsoft Power BI · Power BI Q&A
Change
End of support
Effective
February 2027
Stated as February 2027 with no specific day; Microsoft recommends Copilot for Power BI as the alternative.
Source
learn.microsoft.com
Evidence
“Q&A experiences are going away in February 2027. We recommend using”

Date as quoted: “Q&A experiences are going away in February 2027”

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