# Pricing transcribed from the provider's own page — see provenance. Numbers are quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-09-20'
method: searched
source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/synapse-analytics/
sources:
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/synapse-analytics/
provenance:
  tool: planning/api-economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20260920T120546
  grounding: every price_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
audience: developer-api
pricing_basis: usage-other
delivery:
  delivery: managed
  method: page
  read: '2026-09-20'
published: true
note: 'Nearly all unit rates on the page render as "$-" placeholders (region/currency selector did not
  populate), e.g. serverless "$- per TB of data processed", Spark "$- per vCore-hour", DWU tables. The
  only numeric prices shown are the Synapse Commit Unit pre-purchase tiers, captured above. Free-account
  mention: "$200 credit to explore Azure for 30 days".'
plan_count: 6
currency: USD
plans:
- name: Pre-Purchase Plan Tier 1 (5,000 SCUs, 6% discount)
  price_text: $4700
  price: 4700
  currency: USD
  period: one-time
  unit: 5,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs) over 12 months
  included_quota: 5,000 SCUs
- name: Pre-Purchase Plan Tier 2 (10,000 SCUs, 8% discount)
  price_text: $9200
  price: 9200
  currency: USD
  period: one-time
  unit: 10,000 SCUs over 12 months
  included_quota: 10,000 SCUs
- name: Pre-Purchase Plan Tier 3 (24,000 SCUs, 11% discount)
  price_text: $21360
  price: 21360
  currency: USD
  period: one-time
  unit: 24,000 SCUs over 12 months
  included_quota: 24,000 SCUs
- name: Pre-Purchase Plan Tier 4 (60,000 SCUs, 16% discount)
  price_text: $50400
  price: 50400
  currency: USD
  period: one-time
  unit: 60,000 SCUs over 12 months
  included_quota: 60,000 SCUs
- name: Pre-Purchase Plan Tier 5 (150,000 SCUs, 22% discount)
  price_text: $117000
  price: 117000
  currency: USD
  period: one-time
  unit: 150,000 SCUs over 12 months
  included_quota: 150,000 SCUs
- name: Pre-Purchase Plan Tier 6 (360,000 SCUs, 28% discount)
  price_text: $259200
  price: 259200
  currency: USD
  period: one-time
  unit: 360,000 SCUs over 12 months
  included_quota: 360,000 SCUs
rate_limit_statements:
- Up to 50 concurrent pipeline activities
- Up to 800 concurrent external pipeline activities
- The minimum cluster size to run a Data Flow is 8 vCores
- Queries will incur a minimum charge of 10 MB and each query will be rounded up to the nearest 1 MB of
  data processed
- requires a minimum of two compute instances