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msprog
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1 year ago
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Fabric billing

Hey team i had a question on fabric capacity billing when you are on payg my understanding was if an operation consumes  say 10 CUs you are billed 10x (cu per second rate).  Now I hear the billing...
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  • SamsonTruong's avatar
    SamsonTruong
    1 year ago

    Hi msprog ,

    Fabric billing for Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) capacities is based on runtime, not actual usage. As long as the capacity is running, you are billed, regardless of how much of the allocated compute you consume. The only way to stop charges is to pause the capacity.

    When you purchase a PAYG capacity, you’re provisioned a fixed number of Capacity Units (CUs), and billing occurs per minute based on the CU allocation, not usage. This means even if your workload only uses a small fraction of the capacity, you're still billed for the full provisioned amount as long as it's active.

    For reference, here is a reddit thread with a similar inquiry from another user. In this thread, this concept is confirmed by a Microsoft Employee: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFabric/comments/1f9o6nu/fabric_capacity_usage_costs_if_i_dont_pause_it/

     

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    Thanks,

    Samson

msprog's avatar
msprog
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1 year ago

Thanks SamsonTruong for your help on this.   Looking at the snip that suparnababu8 has posted, 

What does one-minute minimum mean here ?  any thoughts,

 

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v-achippa
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1 year ago

Hi msprog,

 

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.

 

Here the billing is calculated per minute, not per second. There is a minimum charge of 1 minute even if your workload runs for just a few seconds and you will be billed for one full minute. After that the charges are still calculated in full minute increments not per second.

For example if your capacity runs for 10 seconds it will charge for 1 minute.

This model is flexible to pause the capacity when not in use, which saves cost by only paying for active time per minute, not for the entire day or month.

 

Please refer below document:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/microsoft-fabric/

 

 

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Thanks and regards,

Anjan Kumar Chippa