Microsoft Fabric Pricing Calculator
Price the Fabric capacity you choose. Compare PAYG with one- and three-year reservation monthly equivalents, then add OneLake hot storage and net-new Power BI Pro licences.
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Checked regional reference rates
Public USD retail snapshots retrieved on 23 October 2026. PAYG uses the Fabric Compute Pool Capacity Usage CU meter; reservation figures are full-term prices for one CU. OneLake hot and billable replica rates are separate meters with the same values in these regions.
| Azure region | PAYG / CU-hour | 1 year / CU | 3 years / CU | Hot / GB-month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East US | $0.18 | $938 | $2,814 | $0.026 |
| West Europe | $0.22 | $1,146 | $3,438 | $0.024 |
| Central India | $0.20 | $1,042 | $3,126 | $0.025 |
| Southeast Asia | $0.22 | $1,146 | $3,438 | $0.025 |
| UK South | $0.21 | $1,094 | $3,282 | $0.024 |
| Australia East | $0.21 | $1,094 | $3,282 | $0.025 |
Example: East US F64 always on at 730 hours is $8,409.60 PAYG compute. A one-year reference reservation is $60,032 per term, or $5,002.67 monthly equivalent. Storage, licences, tax and other charges are additional. These are not guaranteed customer prices.
How the estimate works
- PAYG compute: selected CUs x USD/CU-hour x billable active hours. Fabric bills per second with a one-minute minimum; idle capacity is still running capacity.
- Reservation equivalent: selected CUs x full-term USD/CU price / 12 or 36. This assumes a reservation fully covering the selected SKU. Partial reservations and multiple scaled capacities are outside this model.
- Ordinary hot storage: average billable GB x USD/GB-month, including retained data while paused. Enter only chargeable OneLake data, not included Power BI import-model storage or included native mirror storage.
- Eligible replicas: running free quota = CUs x 1,024 GB. Weighted billable GB = max(replica GB minus quota, 0) x active fraction + replica GB x paused fraction. Storage growth, changing SKUs, retention and exact billing intervals can change the actual amount.
- Pro licences: entered net-new creator seats plus entered unlicensed viewers below F64, multiplied by your Pro price. At F64+, the viewer exemption applies only to eligible Power BI consumption with the required Free licence, permissions and workspace configuration.
- Additional services: Spark autoscale and capacity overage are separately billed when enabled; reservation discounts do not cover them. Copilot and shared-capacity operations consume resources, not a fixed universal dollar amount per prompt or job. Add separately metered charges rather than assuming the base capacity includes them.
Hot storage only is modeled directly. Cool/cold storage, retrieval, minimum retention, geo-replication, KQL cache and SQL/Cosmos DB storage are not silently included. The current Microsoft pricing page says Fabric networking billing is coming soon with at least 90 days’ notice; upstream Azure or source-system network charges can still apply. Recheck the official page before budgeting.
Pricing questions, answered
Does this calculator recommend the right Fabric SKU?
No. Choose a SKU using a proof of concept, the Microsoft Fabric capacity estimator and Capacity Metrics app. Job duration or user count alone cannot predict CU demand, memory limits, concurrency, smoothing or throttling. This tool prices the capacity you select; it does not certify that the SKU can run your workloads.
How are PAYG and reservations different?
Fabric PAYG is billed per second with a one-minute minimum. This estimate multiplies selected CUs by the regional CU-hour price and your billable active hours. A reservation is a one- or three-year CU commitment: the monthly equivalent is the full term price divided by 12 or 36. Pausing the capacity does not stop the reservation commitment, although the capacity itself can still be paused. Unused reserved hours do not roll forward.
What happens to storage when I pause a capacity?
Retained OneLake storage remains billable. Eligible mirrored replicas have a free allocation of one TB per purchased CU while the capacity runs; that allocation is unavailable while paused. This tool weights the billable replica storage by active and paused hours, assuming a constant retained size. Native mirrored storage already included in another Fabric item must not be entered again.
Who needs Power BI Pro with Fabric?
For ordinary internal Power BI sharing below F64, viewers need Pro, PPU or an eligible trial. On F64 or larger, users with a Fabric Free licence and appropriate viewing permissions can consume eligible Power BI content. Creators and collaborators still need the appropriate Pro or PPU entitlement. Enter only net-new Pro seats, excluding existing Pro/PPU or qualifying Microsoft 365/Office 365 E5 entitlements. PPU workspaces and app-owns-data embedding have different rules and are outside this model.
Is F64 required for Copilot?
No. Current Microsoft guidance permits Copilot on paid F2 or larger capacity, subject to supported regions, tenant configuration, permissions and feature-specific requirements. Trial capacities are not supported. Copilot consumes capacity; there is no universal fixed cost per prompt or automatic production-size recommendation here.
Is the result my complete Azure invoice?
No. It includes the selected capacity model, entered hot storage, eligible replica storage, net-new Pro licences and your additional monthly charges. It excludes taxes, discounts and any charges you have not entered, including Spark autoscale, capacity overage, pause settlement, KQL cache, BCDR, cool/cold tier retrieval and retention charges, Fabric SQL/Cosmos DB storage and backup, source-system costs and applicable networking. See Microsoft pricing and your Azure agreement for actual charges.
Are these live prices or currency conversions?
These are public USD list-rate snapshots retrieved from the Azure Retail Prices API on 23 October 2026 for six regions, not a live quotation. Power BI Pro uses the US public price of USD 14 per user/month paid yearly. There is no estimated foreign-exchange conversion. Override rates using your Azure or licensing quote; switching region restores its published reference rates.
Official sources and review scope
The calculation logic, visible guidance and the six regional rate snapshots were reviewed on 23 October 2026. This is an independent tool, not produced, endorsed or certified by Microsoft. The source pages and your Azure offer take precedence.
- Microsoft Fabric pricing: capacity, storage, mirroring allocation, Spark autoscale, overage and networking scope.
- Azure Retail Prices API and API documentation: filter serviceName to Microsoft Fabric and armRegionName to the region shown. Reservation retailPrice is the full term price, not an hourly rate.
- Fabric capacity reservations: CU quantity, commitment, scope and purchase terms.
- Fabric and Power BI licences: F-SKU sizes, F64 viewing threshold and licensing exceptions.
- Power BI pricing: US Pro list price and yearly-payment terms.
- Pause and resume: availability and settlement of cumulative overages and smoothed operations.
- OneLake consumption and Mirroring costs: chargeable storage and included-storage exceptions.
- Copilot prerequisites: paid F2+ capacity, region and configuration requirements.
