Microsoft Fabric Pricing in 2025 — Everything You Need to Know
OneLake — the unified data lake behind Fabric — is priced separately:
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$0.023/GB/month ($23 per TB) -
Deleted data retained for 7–90 days (still billable)
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Includes lakehouse and KQL caches
3️⃣ Power BI Licensing
Microsoft Fabric is deeply integrated with Power BI. Here’s how licensing works:
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Power BI Pro: $14/user/month
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Power BI Premium Per User: $24/user/month
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With F64+ capacity: Viewers don’t need a Pro license — only creators do
📊 Below F64, every user still requires a Pro license to consume content.
4️⃣ Consumption Flexibility
✅ Pay-as-you-go allows pausing unused capacity during off-hours.
🧠 Reserved plans offer cost predictability for consistent workloads.
🎯 Fabric workloads (Power BI, Synapse, Data Factory) share the same capacity — no double-billing.
🧮 Sample Cost Scenario
A medium-sized team using F8 capacity:
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Compute: ~$1,051/month
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Storage: ~$50/month (2 TB)
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10 Pro users: $140/month
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Total: ~$1,241/month (pay-as-you-go)
With reserved pricing, this drops by nearly 35–40%.
Microsoft Fabric pricing is scalable and modular. Small teams can start lean with F2 or F4, while large organizations benefit from the efficiency of shared capacity under F64 and above. Understanding how capacity, licensing, and storage interact helps optimize costs while unlocking the full power of Fabric.
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