Why PowerPivot add-in is missing from some Office 365 plan?

When you follow the steps in my previous post "How to: Enable PowerPivot Add-ins for Excel 2013" to add PowerPivot in excel with Office 365, you may not be able to find PowerPivot in available COM add-ins.

You may wonder whether you missed any steps? That may not be the case. From "Feature availability across Office 365 plans", you will know PowerPivot feature is only available for the following Office 365 Plans (as of 11/2017):

• Office Professional Plus 2013         
• Office Professional Plus 2016
• Office 365 ProPlus                     
• Office 365 Business
• Office 365 Business Premium
• Office 365 Enterprise E3

So go ahead to check your Office 365 Plan first. If it is not available, the alternative is to use Power BI Desktop, the tool for desktop data analytics. Good luck!