Fabric Planning capacity & cost
Size your Microsoft Fabric capacity by user role, then see the F-SKU that fits and what it costs each month.
Who is using Fabric Planning?
Rates below are sustained CU, the average capacity each user keeps occupied.
Your plan
Region only changes the dollar price of one CU, not how much capacity you need.
Pricing as of June 16, 2026 · figures in USD.
How Fabric Planning is billed
When you start using Fabric Planning, the cost follows a 30-day pattern. The first time a user takes an action, that action sets their role, and that role's capacity is billed for the next 30 days.
Build or model the plan, you are a Planner. Enter or write back data, you are a Stakeholder. View only, you are a Viewer.
Each role holds a sustained slice of capacity: a Planner holds 1.16 CU, a Stakeholder 0.23 CU, a Viewer 0.05 CU. Sustained CU is the average capacity a role keeps occupied, in the same unit your Fabric capacity (the F-SKU) is sold in. It is not CU per hour, and it is not CU-seconds, so it lines up directly with the SKU number. One Planner holds 1.16 of an F2's 2 CU, about 58% of it.
Add up the sustained CU across everyone and that total is what your plan needs. Microsoft meters this per second underneath, but from a capacity view it reads cleanly as the share of your F-SKU each role occupies.
The number of CUs each role consumes is the same in every region. What changes by region is the dollar price of one CU, which is what the region selector adjusts.
This calculator is kept deliberately simple: one consistent unit and one set of numbers. For the fuller, more detailed capacity estimator, see Lumel, Microsoft's development partner for Fabric Planning, at lumel.com. For the current dollar cost of a CU in your region, see Microsoft's Fabric pricing page.
Prices are per-CU figures derived from published F2 capacity pricing (F2 = 2 CU), in USD, as of June 16, 2026. Reservation reflects a 1-year monthly equivalent. Confirm current rates with Microsoft, as pricing changes.