F8
8 Dedicated Capacity Units (CU)
Microsoft Fabric F8 Capacity
F8 provides 8 CUs, serving as a solid foundation for departmental workloads and medium-sized Spark notebook transformations.
Billing Option 1
Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG)
$1.44 / hour
~$1,051.2 / month ($12,614.4 / yr)
Billed per second with no long-term commitment. Ideal for temporary development, testing, or workloads that auto-pause on weekends.
~41% Savings
Recommended Enterprise Billing
1-Year Reserved Instance
$620.21 / month
$7,442.52 / year (Save $5,171.88/yr)
Commit to 1 year of continuous baseline capacity to lock in massive cost savings across all data workloads.
F8 Technical Specifications & Entitlements
Power BI Free License Viewer Access
LOCKED: Users require individual Power BI Pro or PPU licenses to view reports on this capacity.
Microsoft Fabric Copilot AI Assistant
ELIGIBLE CAPACITY: Verify tenant settings, region, permissions, and feature requirements.
Max Burst Compute Limit
Bursting and smoothing depend on workload and service rules. Use actual Capacity Metrics; this page does not establish a guaranteed maximum burst.
Recommended Use Cases
Medium Dev Environments • Departmental Pipelines • Small Data Science Models
Frequently Asked Questions about Fabric F8
Can I run Spark on F8?
Yes, Apache Spark notebooks run smoothly on F8, though large parallel node allocations should be tuned to avoid throttling.
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