Microsoft Fabric Licensing

A Microsoft Fabric subscription consists of tenants, capacities, and workspaces and can be organized in various ways according to your organizational needs. This illustration provides two example subscriptions, each organized differently. Typically, companies organize their subscription in a model that resembles the Retail company A example.

Licensing includes:

1. Capacity unit cost

• SKUs lower than F64 would require Power BI individual licenses (Pro or PPU) for Power BI sharing.
• To share the Power BI content freely across the organization, you must be on a minimum F64 (Equivalent of P1) or higher SKUs.
• This means that if you use F2 and you want Power BI content sharing, then you would also need Power BI Pro individual accounts.

2. Storage Cost

• The OneLake cost is similar to ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage) pricing. For example, US West 2 storage costs $0.023 per GB monthly.

3. User-based licensing

• Nothing has changed in the Power BI licensing with the appearance of Fabric. You still have the Free, Pro, and PPU user-based licenses plus the EM, A, and P SKUs for dedicated capacity licenses, and they all work as they did before.
• User-based licensing was used in Microsoft Power BI and is still in use. In Power BI, the capacity can be shared capacity or Dedicated (Premium or Embedded). And users also need to have accounts. The User accounts are Free, Pro, and PPU (Premium Per User).

You can have a look at the Microsoft Fabric licenses for more detail.