| Parameter | Power BI | Excel |
| Tabular reports | Power BI is not so handy for tabular style reports | Excel is better at handling tabular-style reports. |
| Duplicate Table | Cannot display duplicated tables | Allows to display duplicated tables |
| Reports | Offers beautiful, personalized, and interactive reports | Doesn’t offer advanced cross-filtering between charts. |
| Cross filtering | Offers advanced features in cross-filtering between charts. | Doesn’t offer advanced cross-filtering between charts. |
| Analytics | Offers simple analytics | Offers high-level analytics |
| Applications | Ideal for dashboards, KPIs, alerts, and visualizations, including analysing your data visually. | Excel does have some new charts now, and they can’t connect to the data model. |
