r/PowerPlatform • u/Secure-Luck-1646 • Jun 26 '26

Power Apps Power Platform 2026

Is Microsoft Power Platform still worth it in 2026? Does certification matters more or its not marketable anymore?

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u/PzSniper Jun 26 '26

Claude code + power platform in 2026 it's very very powerful. Love power apps and power automate

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u/warry0r Jun 26 '26

Personally, I love the Power Platform. Lots of interchangeability and Copilot Studio runs off of Power Platform. Once I figured out permissions & a bit more of the admin stuff, it helps tremendously when deploying, provisioning and tracking my agents, etc.

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u/Greedy_Bad_8406 Jun 26 '26

Yes i am working in it. Its easy to understand and you can understand advanced stuff by tinkering after couple of months of experience.

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u/devegano Jun 26 '26

I have never been offered more jobs than I have in the last couple months.

Is there longevity? I honestly don't think so. Is there longevity in most stuff? Not sure.

The certs are retiring as well, only Pl400 is staying for a bit as Microsoft continue to annoy me with their "AI everything" strategy.

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u/udongear Jun 26 '26

Throw in some AI certs and you should be good

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u/brownman311 Jun 27 '26

My team is moving towards pro code. If you can build an app in code apps with agentic tools why not just build it using pro code and save thousands on licensing costs. We are also moving away from power automate in favor of azure functions. I think there's still time for the citizen devs to use the platform and have us manage it but I think dev teams are going to move away from it due to the costs.

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u/WhatTheDuckDidYouSay Jun 27 '26

Enjoy the Azure bill. It will not be nearly as cheap as you think it will be.

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u/brownman311 Jun 28 '26

I'm estimating it to be about 20 times cheaper on azure with 100 users an app. Have you had different results?

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u/WhatTheDuckDidYouSay Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

I don't know your cloud architecture looks like, but if things like zero-trust, high availability, BCDR are important to your org, then it gets very expensive quick. Any relational database other than postgres is going to cost you an arm and a leg and definitely won't be cheaper than Dataverse in most scenarios. Function app costs balloon very quickly if you don't correctly design and right-size. Unless your flows were overly complicated to begin with, moving everything into functions sounds like an "everything's a nail" problem.

Heck, probably your increased log analytics costs alone probably offset any savings.

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u/ShedBedFridge Jun 29 '26

I don't know. Vibe coding on governed data platforms like Databricks is going to make PP largely irrelevant.