Difference between Tableau and Power BI | Tableau vs Power BI | Compare Power BI and Tableau

Features	Tableau	Power BI
General	Developed by Tableau.	Developed by Microsoft.
General	Year of Establishment is 2003	Year of Establishment is 2013
General	Uses MDX for measures and dimensions.	Uses DAX for calculated columns and measure columns.
Availability	Tableau Desktop, Tableau Online, Tableau Server.	Desktop, Mobile, and Service.
Visualizations	Users can create charts, scatter plots in the tableau and don’t have any restrictions on the number of data points.	Offers numerous data points to provide visualizations. It has around 3500 data points for drilling down across the datasets and performing an analysis.
Performance	Can handle huge volume of data with better performance.	Can handle only limited volume of data.
Target Audience	Used by data analysts and experienced users mostly for their analytics purposes	Used by both naive and experienced users or by general audience that needs business intelligence to enhance their analytics.
Learning	Little difficult to learn.	Very easy to learn.
Pricing	High. Tableau Explorer – $35 per user/month	Comes at a lower price point, but scaled features and additional users will increase the price. Power BI Pro – Starts at $9.99 per month
Data Capacity	Tableau works on the columnar based structure which stores only unique values for each column and thereby making it possible to fetch billions of rows.	Each workspace/group could handle up to 10 GB of Data. For more than that, either data needs to be in cloud(Azure) or in the other case, if it is in local databases then Power Bl selects or fetches the data from database for reporting purpose and does not import.
Data Source	Has a wider variety and allows connecting to numerous data sources.	Connects to limited data sources but increases its data source connectors in monthly updates.