Microsoft Fabric · Capacity cost
Fabric capacity is billed per minute while it runs — and you can pause it. Plug in your SKU and your real run pattern to see what pausing saves, and whether pay-as-you-go or a 1-year reservation is cheaper for you.
Your capacity
US base list price. Prices vary by region (±10–15%) — set your region's exact $/CU-hour for an accurate estimate.
How you actually run it
Always-on assumes 730 hours/month. Your schedule = hours/day × days/week, averaged across the month. Pausing only applies to pay-as-you-go capacity; a reservation is billed whether the capacity runs or not.
Right-size your real capacity, not a slider.
This is one chapter of the Fabric Migration Handbook. Bring your actual workload and I'll do a live teardown — SKU, pause schedule, governance, the lot.
Estimates only. Based on US base list pricing for pay-as-you-go Fabric F-SKUs (≈$0.18 per CU-hour) and a ~41% one-year reservation discount; both are editable above. Actual cost varies by region, Azure agreement, currency, and OneLake storage / networking (billed separately and not included here). Always confirm on the official Azure Fabric pricing page.
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