capacity billing

Capacity billing covers how Microsoft charges for shared compute in services such as Microsoft Fabric, where planning workloads run on capacity rather than per-user licences. The tagged discussion looks at Microsoft Fabric Planning billing starting August 1 with published capacity rates, using a customer story about Canlak Coatings moving sales forecasting out of emailed Excel workbooks and into Fabric Planning. The reported result, roughly one week per forecast cycle instead of three to four, comes from a Microsoft marketing case study and has not been independently audited. The architecture matters for capacity billing because planning was added on top of an existing Power BI semantic model, so forecasts and actuals share the same data, definitions and row-level security.