Power BI training: the 8 best courses in 2026, by profile

ONLC sells Power BI as a ladder of short live classes, in one of its centers or remote. The Introduction for Excel Users takes two days for $795, the Intermediate class follows in two days for $995, and a three-day class prepares the PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst exam for $1,795. The cheapest live class is Get and Transform Data with the M language, one day for $495, and the two-day DAX Introduction costs $995.

On-demand video versions also exist if you prefer to learn at your own pace. Public classes come with a retake option and a money-back guarantee, and groups are quoted on request, virtual, onsite or both. Only the PL-300 class is tied to a Microsoft certification, and ONLC teaches it as a Microsoft training partner.

Learning Tree's Power BI Training is its Course 8574, a three-day live class built on the PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst exam. The page lists the tuition at $2,785 or $2,474 depending on the pricing option selected (the page offers commercial or government pricing without saying which price is which) and states that the Microsoft exam voucher is included in the course tuition, so the $165 exam is not an extra line on the invoice. After-course instructor coaching is included, and the live in-class version earns 23 NASBA CPE credits.

It is the most expensive three-day class on this page. Compared with ONLC's three-day PL-300 class at $1,795, you pay about $1,000 more, of which $165 is the exam you would otherwise buy yourself. For a manager who wants one purchase order covering class and exam, that simplicity is the point.

Power BI Fundamentals is a track of six courses for beginners, with exercises in the browser and a Statement of Accomplishment at the end.

Its strength is the team plan: $28 per user per month billed yearly, from two users, with the rest of the DataCamp catalog included. Two things to know. Subscription prices change, so check the pricing page before you budget. And DataCamp's own ranking of Power BI courses lists only DataCamp courses, so do not treat it as a neutral comparison.

Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari teach this course: 39 hours of training, including 32 hours of video lectures, in 433 videos. It goes deep on how DAX evaluates formulas: row and filter context, CALCULATE, time intelligence and performance. You get a PDF certificate of completion.

The pricing is built for professionals: $449 for an individual license valid 36 months, $1,790 for a transferable license that a company can move from one employee to another, and published group discounts applied in the cart: 25% from 10 students, rising to 72% from 350. It is not a beginner course: take it once you have built a few models.

Microsoft publishes free learning paths on getting started with data analytics, modeling data in Power BI and building visuals and reports, plus a free practice assessment for the PL-300 certification. The same content exists as an official course, PL-300T00 "Design and manage analytics solutions using Power BI", rated Intermediate: free in self-paced form, or three days in a classroom with a Microsoft training partner.

The instructor-led version is not sold by Microsoft: each partner sets its own price, and ONLC, for example, runs it as a three-day PL-300 class for $1,795. The free paths are the most exam-aligned material you will find, but they are a menu rather than a course: nobody tells you what to learn next or checks your model.

Microsoft's Power BI Data Analyst Professional Certificate on Coursera is an 8-course series that Coursera estimates at 5 months at 10 hours a week. It starts from data preparation and ends with exam prep. Learners who complete it receive a 50% discount voucher for the PL-300 exam; the exam itself is not included. The courses are rated 4.6 out of 5 across 9,672 reviews.

The program page shows no price of its own; access comes through a Coursera Plus subscription, listed at $59 a month or $399 a year. At the suggested five months, the monthly plan comes to about $295, less than the yearly plan; the yearly plan only pays off if you take seven months or more.

Noble Desktop teaches Power BI in 12 live hours, in its New York classroom or online. The program covers Power Query, visuals, basic DAX (measures, calculated columns, SUM vs SUMX), relationships, the Power BI service, scheduled refresh and drill-through. You can retake the course for free within a year and get a digital certificate of completion.

Noble also trains teams onsite or online, with volume discounts. At $799 for 12 hours, it works out to about $67 an hour, less per hour than Learning Tree or the ONLC PL-300 class.

NobleProg's Power BI Training Course is 14 hours of instructor-led, live training, online or onsite, for beginner to intermediate data professionals and business analysts. The outline runs from Power BI architecture and data sources with the M language to data modeling, DAX, visualizations, row-level security, and team collaboration and mobile use. Sessions mix short lectures with exercises in a live lab environment.

Public dates are listed at $2,220 online and $3,420 in a classroom, and a public class runs only with a minimum of 4 people. For one-to-one or a private group, NobleProg asks you to request a quote, and the course can be customized to your needs. It ends without a Microsoft exam: if the PL-300 is the goal, Learning Tree or ONLC prepare it directly.