Microsoft Fabric Licensing

If you ever wanted to use 'Premium' for less than the lowest cost, $5000/month, Fabric will enable that option to become a reality without purchasing an A SKU (embedded). Fabric has brought not only more functionality, but also a reduction in cost for entry into the capacities of the service.

As you can see in the image above, the entry level can be as low as $262.80/month. Now, this is a minimum set of resources, but it does show how easy it is to convince management to start on this path.

P1 is equivalent to a F64 in resources, but there is a price difference - $5000(P1) versus $8409.60(F64). Now, this is not explained anywhere, but my assumption is the features of Fabric are larger than just a capacity for the Power BI Service.

Above is a link to the features of Fabric, which is the Data Factory and Synapse features along with the Premium of Power BI Service. The server-less SQL Server is my favorite along with creating a Lakehouse or Warehouse. I look forward to more with Fabric (and bug fixes) and I strongly suggest just using Fabric in its current stage in a Proof of Concept implementation. Remember, it is still Public Preview, which is equivalent to Beta in the old software days or labeling releases.

Unless, of course, you are working directly with Microsoft, with the implementation. :)