Measure Killer
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Free desktop tool, tenant-wide enterprise license, and setup-assisted automation — side by side.
Free
Measure Killer Free
Scan scope
- ✓ Power BI Desktop file (.pbix, .pbip)
- — Shared semantic models in Power BI Service
- — Online thin / live reports (no download)
- — Paginated reports
- — Excel files · Analyze in Excel
- — Composite & child models
- — Personal, Pro and Premium workspaces
- — Microsoft Fabric items
- — Analysis Services models (SSAS SQL Server 2019+ & Azure AS, Tabular)
- — Workspace-level scan
- — Full tenant-wide scan
Detection & analysis
- ✓ Unused columns, measures and tables
- ✓ Where-used analysis (27 categories)
- ✓ Implicit measures & anti-patterns
- ✓ Column-level lineage from semantic model to visual
- — Cross-report lineage
- — End-to-end lineage (source → report)
- — Column-level lineage from data source to Power BI visual
- — Downstream / composite model tracking
- — "Clean your model" guide — includes advanced optimizations
- ✓ Table relations analysis
Code search
Governance & tenant analysis
- ✓ Best-practice analysis (reports + models)
- — Custom (user-defined) best-practice rules
- — Tenant summary (workspaces, items, owners, users)
- — Access & permissions tracking
- — Row-level security (RLS) & object-level security (OLS)
- — Semantic model inventory + refresh events
- — Dataflow inventory (Gen1 + Gen2) + refresh events
- — Apps & audiences — who has access
- — Find Excel users across your tenant
- — Report performance
- — Page-level usage & consumption
- — Custom visual consumption — who uses what (license compliance)
- — Report subscriptions — owner & recipients
- — Broken visuals detection — which visuals, where, and why
- — Broken DAX detection — erroring measures, columns & tables per model
- — Capacity metrics with historical tracking
- — Fabric Notebook inventory + run events
Similarity & duplicates
Cleanup & actions
- ✓ Export model & report documentation
- — Export to JSON for AI or downstream tools
- ✓ Clean TMDL (recommended cleanup method)
- ✓ DAX backup & restore (measures + calc columns)
- ✓ Save & resume an analysis (.measurekiller file)
- — 1-click cleanup (online removal)
- — Tenant backups of models, reports & dataflows
Operations
- ✓ Manual run (interactive UI)
- — Scheduled automated scans — on any cadence
- — Trigger from a Fabric pipeline or CI/CD job
- — Customize every feature — rule sets, scope and outputs per run
- — Write results anywhere — Fabric tables, warehouse, Teams
- — Email or Teams alerts (e.g. runaway CU consumption)
- — Track tenant changes over time — inventory & consumption trends
- — Setup & 30+ sample notebooks from Brunner BI
- — Custom development hours included on higher tiers
Commercial
- ✓ Personal & commercial use
- • Price $0 forever€0 foreverCHF 0 forever →
- — Support
Enterprise
MK Enterprise
Scan scope
- ✓ Power BI Desktop file (.pbix, .pbip)
- ✓ Shared semantic models in Power BI Service
- ✓ Online thin / live reports (no download)
- ✓ Paginated reports
- ✓ Excel files · Analyze in Excel
- ✓ Composite & child models
- ✓ Personal, Pro and Premium workspaces
- ✓ Microsoft Fabric items
- ✓ Analysis Services models (SSAS SQL Server 2019+ & Azure AS, Tabular)
- ✓ Workspace-level scan
- ✓ Full tenant-wide scan
Detection & analysis
- ✓ Unused columns, measures and tables
- ✓ Where-used analysis (27 categories)
- ✓ Implicit measures & anti-patterns
- ✓ Column-level lineage from semantic model to visual
- ✓ Cross-report lineage
- ✓ End-to-end lineage (source → report)
- • Column-level lineage from data source to Power BI visual Coming soon
- ✓ Downstream / composite model tracking
- ✓ "Clean your model" guide — includes advanced optimizations
- ✓ Table relations analysis
Code search
Governance & tenant analysis
- ✓ Best-practice analysis (reports + models)
- • Custom (user-defined) best-practice rules On roadmap
- ✓ Tenant summary (workspaces, items, owners, users)
- ✓ Access & permissions tracking
- ✓ Row-level security (RLS) & object-level security (OLS)
- ✓ Semantic model inventory + refresh events
- ✓ Dataflow inventory (Gen1 + Gen2) + refresh events
- ✓ Apps & audiences — who has access
- ✓ Find Excel users across your tenant
- ✓ Report performance
- ✓ Page-level usage & consumption
- ✓ Custom visual consumption — who uses what (license compliance)
- ✓ Report subscriptions — owner & recipients
- ✓ Broken visuals detection — which visuals, where, and why
- ✓ Broken DAX detection — erroring measures, columns & tables per model
- ✓ Capacity metrics with historical tracking
- ✓ Fabric Notebook inventory + run events
Similarity & duplicates
Cleanup & actions
- ✓ Export model & report documentation
- ✓ Export to JSON for AI or downstream tools
- ✓ Clean TMDL (recommended cleanup method)
- ✓ DAX backup & restore (measures + calc columns)
- ✓ Save & resume an analysis (.measurekiller file)
- ✓ 1-click cleanup (online removal)
- — Tenant backups of models, reports & dataflows
Operations
- ✓ Manual run (interactive UI)
- — Scheduled automated scans — on any cadence
- — Trigger from a Fabric pipeline or CI/CD job
- — Customize every feature — rule sets, scope and outputs per run
- — Write results anywhere — Fabric tables, warehouse, Teams
- — Email or Teams alerts (e.g. runaway CU consumption)
- — Track tenant changes over time — inventory & consumption trends
- — Setup & 30+ sample notebooks from Brunner BI
- — Custom development hours included on higher tiers
Commercial
- ✓ Personal & commercial use
- • Price From $108/user/monthFrom €91/user/monthFrom CHF 83/user/month →
- • Support Email support included
Automation
MK Automation
Scan scope
- ✓ Power BI Desktop file (.pbix, .pbip)
- ✓ Shared semantic models in Power BI Service
- ✓ Online thin / live reports (no download)
- ✓ Paginated reports
- ✓ Excel files · Analyze in Excel
- ✓ Composite & child models
- ✓ Personal, Pro and Premium workspaces
- ✓ Microsoft Fabric items
- ✓ Analysis Services models (SSAS SQL Server 2019+ & Azure AS, Tabular)
- ✓ Workspace-level scan
- ✓ Full tenant-wide scan
Detection & analysis
- ✓ Unused columns, measures and tables
- ✓ Where-used analysis (27 categories)
- ✓ Implicit measures & anti-patterns
- ✓ Column-level lineage from semantic model to visual
- ✓ Cross-report lineage
- ✓ End-to-end lineage (source → report)
- • Column-level lineage from data source to Power BI visual Coming soon
- ✓ Downstream / composite model tracking
- ✓ "Clean your model" guide — includes advanced optimizations
- ✓ Table relations analysis
Code search
Governance & tenant analysis
- ✓ Best-practice analysis (reports + models)
- • Custom (user-defined) best-practice rules On roadmap
- ✓ Tenant summary (workspaces, items, owners, users)
- ✓ Access & permissions tracking
- ✓ Row-level security (RLS) & object-level security (OLS)
- ✓ Semantic model inventory + refresh events
- ✓ Dataflow inventory (Gen1 + Gen2) + refresh events
- ✓ Apps & audiences — who has access
- ✓ Find Excel users across your tenant
- ✓ Report performance
- ✓ Page-level usage & consumption
- ✓ Custom visual consumption — who uses what (license compliance)
- ✓ Report subscriptions — owner & recipients
- ✓ Broken visuals detection — which visuals, where, and why
- ✓ Broken DAX detection — erroring measures, columns & tables per model
- ✓ Capacity metrics with historical tracking
- ✓ Fabric Notebook inventory + run events
Similarity & duplicates
Cleanup & actions
- ✓ Export model & report documentation
- ✓ Export to JSON for AI or downstream tools
- ✓ Clean TMDL (recommended cleanup method)
- ✓ DAX backup & restore (measures + calc columns)
- ✓ Save & resume an analysis (.measurekiller file)
- ✓ 1-click cleanup (online removal)
- ✓ Tenant backups of models, reports & dataflows
Operations
- ✓ Manual run (interactive UI)
- ✓ Scheduled automated scans — on any cadence
- ✓ Trigger from a Fabric pipeline or CI/CD job
- ✓ Customize every feature — rule sets, scope and outputs per run
- ✓ Write results anywhere — Fabric tables, warehouse, Teams
- ✓ Email or Teams alerts (e.g. runaway CU consumption)
- ✓ Track tenant changes over time — inventory & consumption trends
- ✓ Setup & 30+ sample notebooks from Brunner BI
- ✓ Custom development hours included on higher tiers
Commercial
- ✓ Personal & commercial use
- • Price From $1,583/monthFrom €1,333/monthFrom CHF 1,167/month →
- • Support SLA-level support
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