Pricing scenario using a data pipeline to load 1 TB of CSV data to Lakehouse files

In this scenario, a Copy activity was used in a data pipeline to load 1 TB of CSV data stored in Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 to Lakehouse files in Microsoft Fabric.

The prices used in the following example are hypothetical and don’t intend to imply exact actual pricing. These are just to demonstrate how you can estimate, plan, and manage cost for Data Factory projects in Microsoft Fabric. Also, since Fabric capacities are priced uniquely across regions, we use the pay-as-you-go pricing for a Fabric capacity at US West 2 (a typical Azure region), at $0.18 per CU per hour. Refer here to Microsoft Fabric - Pricing to explore other Fabric capacity pricing options.

Configuration

To accomplish this scenario, you need to create a pipeline with the following configuration:

Screenshot showing the configuration of a pipeline copying CSV data to a Lakehouse table.

Cost estimation using the Fabric Metrics App

Screenshot showing the duration and CU consumption of the job in the Fabric Metrics App.

The data movement operation utilized 95,760 CU seconds with a 290.27 second (4.84 minute) duration while activity run operation was null since there weren’t any non-copy activities in the pipeline run.

Note

Although reported as a metric, the actual duration of the run isn't relevant when calculating the effective CU hours with the Fabric Metrics App since the CU seconds metric it also reports already accounts for its duration.

Metric Data Movement Operation
CU seconds 95,760 CU seconds
Effective CU-hours (95,760) / (60*60) CU-hours = 26.6 CU-hours

Total run cost at $0.18/CU hour = (26.6 CU-hours) * ($0.18/CU hour) ~= $4.79