Most consultants and agencies hide the number behind "request a quote." Here is the real range for 2026, what moves it up or down, and exactly what you get.
A Power BI dashboard from Three Birds Labs starts at $2,000 as a fixed price for a clean, single-source build, and scales with complexity from there. Ongoing or open-ended work is $125 an hour. The price is driven by how many data sources you have, how clean they are, and how many connected dashboards you need — and you get the exact fixed number before any work begins. No hourly surprises, no "request a quote."
Fixed-price tiers for one-time builds, plus an hourly option for open-ended work.
These are typical ranges, not a fixed menu — every project gets one exact fixed number on the first call, before any work begins. A dashboard's price tracks your data, not the number of charts.
If you have a defined dashboard with a clear goal, fixed price is almost always better: your cost is locked before work starts and the risk of overruns sits with the consultant, not you.
If the work is open-ended or evolving — clearing a reporting backlog, maintaining reports over time, or exploring before the question is settled — hourly at $125 is more honest, because nobody can fix-price a moving target without padding it. On the first call you'll be told which one fits.
When a quote comes back at $15,000 or more for a single dashboard, you're usually paying for overhead, not output: account managers, a sales layer, and project managers — and the senior who sold the work is often not the one who builds it. A solo senior consultant prices the build directly, which is how a fixed dashboard can start at $2,000 instead of five figures.
That doesn't make an agency the wrong choice for every job. For a large, multi-person, multi-quarter program, the structure earns its keep. For one well-built dashboard you can trust, it rarely does. See the full solo-vs-agency-vs-offshore comparison.
It starts at $2,000 as a fixed price for a clean, single-source build, and scales with complexity from there. Ongoing or open-ended work is $125 an hour. You get the exact fixed number before any work begins — no hourly surprises and no "request a quote."
Price is driven mostly by your data, not the visuals: how many sources are involved, how clean they are, how much modeling and DAX the logic needs, whether you need several connected dashboards, and whether you need row-level security. A single clean source is the cheapest starting point.
A defined dashboard with a clear goal is fixed price, so your cost is locked before work starts. Open-ended or evolving work is hourly at $125. On the first call you'll be told which one fits your situation.
Agencies carry overhead a solo senior consultant doesn't: account managers, sales teams, and project managers, often with five-figure minimums — and the senior who sells the work frequently isn't the one who builds it. Pricing the build directly is why fixed dashboards can start at $2,000.
Yes, outright. You get a real Power BI project (.pbip) file you can open, edit, version, and hand to your team. It lives in your environment, not a hosted tool you rent, and your data stays yours with zero retention.
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