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Connecting to a Rest API source - pipeline vs dataflow gen2
Hi pmscorca,
In general Dataflow Gen 2 is just more expensive.
You can see the pricing calculations here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/pricing-dataflows-gen2
Compared to the Pipeline CU costs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/pricing-pipelines
If you want the most cost effective approach, that would probably be to use a Python notebook to pull the data out of the REST API.
Hi pmscorca,
In general Dataflow Gen 2 is just more expensive.
You can see the pricing calculations here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/pricing-dataflows-gen2
Compared to the Pipeline CU costs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-factory/pricing-pipelines
If you want the most cost effective approach, that would probably be to use a Python notebook to pull the data out of the REST API.