Azure Cost Management Power BI for MCA - Reader Access

Your EA-to-MCA migration exposes two different permission requirements, even though the portal already displays the costs. Microsoft currently documents Contributor or greater at the MCA billing account or billing profile for the Power BI Cost Management connector; Billing Account Reader does not meet that connector requirement. I cannot explain the product design decision beyond that documented boundary. The pricing calculator is different: Microsoft lists Billing Profile Reader among the supported roles for MCA negotiated pricing. Have the billing administrator check your effective access to the specific billing profile. In the calculator, sign in within the estimate, choose Microsoft Customer Agreement under Licensing Program, then select the correct billing account and profile. For read-only Power BI consumers, consider an administrator-managed Cost Management export and grant access to the exported data rather than broadening everyone’s billing permissions. Confirm your MCA type too, because the connector excludes indirect and pay-as-you-go MCA agreements.