Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Plans Pricing
Azure Synapse Analytics is consumption-priced per compute resource family — Dedicated SQL Pool (DWU-hour, hourly), Serverless SQL Pool (per TB processed), Apache Spark Pool (vCore-hour), and Data Integration / Pipelines (per orchestration activity-run + per-DIU-hour). Storage is billed separately via Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Reserved capacity discounts of up to ~65% available for 1-year and 3-year commitments on Dedicated SQL Pools. Microsoft is steering new workloads to Microsoft Fabric.
Plans
Provisioned data warehouse compute billed per DWU-hour. Sizes from DW100c to DW30000c. Storage billed separately at $122.88 per TB per month.
- Pause / resume to save cost
- 1-year and 3-year reserved capacity
- Geo-redundant backups
Pay per TB of data processed by ad-hoc queries on data lake. No provisioning; fully managed.
- Query data lake without ETL
- T-SQL syntax over Parquet/CSV/JSON
- No infrastructure to manage
Apache Spark compute billed per vCore-hour. Memory-optimized node sizes from Small (4 vCore) to XXLarge (64 vCore). Auto-pause idle pools to control cost.
- Auto-pause to stop billing
- Auto-scale executors
- Optimized for memory-intensive workloads
Mirrors Azure Data Factory pricing. Billed per orchestration activity-run, per data integration unit (DIU)-hour for data movement, and per Spark execution hour.
- Visual pipeline designer
- 90+ source/sink connectors
- Mapping and wrangling data flows
Pre-commit to dedicated SQL pool DWU capacity for 1-year or 3-year terms; ~37% / ~65% off pay-as-you-go.
- Discount up to 65%
- Auto-renew option
- Enterprise Agreement bundling