Microsoft Fabric pricing

Question

Hi there,

Can you clarify how Fabric pricing works, I see the Fabric pricing but question, will I pay additional pricing for Data Factory, Synapse while using Fabric?

Answer 1

Hello @Mike Matveev

Microsoft Fabric has launched as a public preview and is temporarily provided free of charge when you sign up for the Microsoft Fabric (Preview) trial. Your use of the Microsoft Fabric (Preview) trial includes access to the Fabric product experiences and the resources to create and host Fabric items. The Fabric (Preview) trial lasts for a period of 60 days

Understanding Azure Data Factory pricing through examples

There are two licensing components of Power BI that are critical to understanding the overall licensing model: user-based licensing and capacity-based licensing.

User-based licenses are not changing with the introduction of Fabric. Everyone in your tenant can be assigned a free license, a Pro license, or a Premium Per User License (PPU). Without going into depth of the individual features, this is basically what they mean:

• Free licenses provide an entry point to publish reports to a personal workspace on the web with limited sharing capabilities.
• A Pro license is an entry point to creating workspaces for collaboration with other Pro users.
• A PPU license is an elevated Pro license as an entry point to Power BI Premium features for dataflows, Datamarts, using the XMLA endpoint, and more.

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Answer 2

Hello Mike Matveev ,

For your question: "how Fabric pricing works, I see the Fabric pricing but question, will I pay additional pricing for Data Factory, Synapse while using Fabric"

Data factory pipeline cost will be included in the Fabric

Capacity and Skus:

Capacity is a dedicated set of resources reserved for exclusive use. It offers dependable, consistent performance for your content.

Each capacity offers a selection of SKUs, and each SKU provides different resource tiers for memory and computing power. The type of SKU you require depends on the solution you wish to deploy.

Capacity units(CUs) = Compute power

CUs are units of measure that represent the pool of computing power. Compute power is needed to run jobs, queries, or tasks.

CU consumption:

The CU consumption is correlated to the underlying compute needed for the tasks performed during the processing time by the capacity,

Each capacity with the associated queries, jobs, or tasks has a unique consumption rate.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/enterprise/licenses#capacity-and-skus

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Answer 3

Hi,

I am not sure if in an organization, with F or P capacity license, the Pro and Premium per user licenses are necessary when creating Workspaces or when collaborating with Power BI items in workspaces.

Please, help me to understand if these use cases are right or wrong.

1. Capacity licences and Free licenses ? In a Tenant with F or P capacity license there is no workspace, all users with Free licenses can create Microsoft Fabric items but without sharing items.
2. Capacity licences with workspaces and Free licenses ? In a Tenant with F or P capacity license they create one or more workspaces for different groups of users with Free licenses. Users with Free licenses can create and collaborate with Microsoft Fabric items in workspaces but without sharing Power BI items. For example, users connect to OneLake and collaborate in different workspaces on different machine learning models in Synapse Data Science.
3. Capacity licences with workspaces, Power BI items and per user licenses: In a Tenant with F or P capacity license, a group of users wants to collaborate with Power BI items (such as reports or dashboards) in a workspace. Then the users need to have Pro or Premium per user license to create Power BI items and collaborate in this workspace. Free users can only be assigned the Viewer role.

Have a nice day!