Microsoft Fabric Licensing and Cost: The Complete Guide

Microsoft Fabric offers an end-to-end analytical solution. It encompasses data integration, data warehousing, data science, and real-time analytics. The big question is, how much will it cost to take advantage of all these exciting workloads? In this video we will answer this question so can properly choose which of the Fabric licensing options are right for you!

0:00 What is the cost of Microsoft Fabric
6:10 Pay-As-You-Go Licensing
12:06 What if you already have Power BI Premium?
13:56 What about Individual Power BI Licensing?
17:34 Workspace Capacities
21:22 Any Additional Costs for Fabric?
24:36 Additional Fabric Licensing Items
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[krishraj]

Has Something changed about the pro license usage on non-power bi fabric item creation? The official fabric licensing page shows for the creation of no-power bi fabric items you need pro even if it's backed by a capacity!

[brandonperks]

Are you able to automate the pausing and resuming of the Fabric Capacity?

[BISimplifier]

I am having PBI premium capacity (P2) and have not enabled preview features .So currently i am not availing fabric to users(even trial).But in next month on wards does it make automatically Fabric enabled if admin does not change any setting in the portal?
Second thing is that you mentioned that in premium you can leverage fabric with no extra costs. Is that mean with the amount that i am paying for premium capacity, i can work with all fabric personas? If so, this new pricing mechanism(pay as you go) not applicable for premium capacities?

[davebennett]

A couple of questions:
1 Can a Fabric Admin enable access for individual users for specific Capacities and Workspaces ?
2 Is a user who isn’t an admin able to pause and restart a Capacity ?

[yoismelperez]

Great video, thanks for sharing. I may have a few question for Pay-as-you-go approach.
Let's say an Admin creates the Fabric Capacity, and selects the tier, I get billed based on that tier and storage, but kind of confused with the users part.
1. Which license and/or Azure permission do developers need to create artifacts in the Workspace?
2. If I deploy reports to this workspace, what license should users have to use these reports?
3. If I have my LakeHouse in this workspace, can I have reports deployed to non-fabric workspace and will regular Pro-License users be able to consume the reports?

[ChrisSmithFW]

I believe this was prior to PPU integration or am I mistaken? If it was prior, are there any plans to update this?

Thanks so much for providing it. I've viewed so many (and read docs) in order to get my arms around this. While all were good, yours may have been the clearest, simplest explanation I've heard. Really appreciate it.