How does reported billing in Azure relate to Databricks?

raffael — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:09:55 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to understand how costs in Azure relate to costs in Databricks. I'm currently on Azure Pay-as-you-Go and Databricks Trial. There's nothing on my Azure account going on apart from Databricks.

This is the costs bar chart on Azure (€):

This is the costs dashboard from Databricks ($):

1$ = 0.88€ and 1€ = 1.14$

Let's take April 9:

Databricks: 4$ SQL, 7.9$ ALL_PURPOSE
Azure: 3.4$ VMs, 1.1$ Storage

My first question would be; am I correct to assume that I have to pay the sum of all those costs for April 9? Meaning:

I pay 11.9$ to Databricks
And I pay 4.5$ to Azure

Is that correct?

If I am not mistaken then SQL at Databricks means Serverless SQL which is hosted by Databricks and not related to Azure - is that correct? At least I never see any compute spinning up in Azure when I use SQL on Databricks.

But ALL_PURPOSE on Databricks of course is running on Azure VMs for which I have to pay 4.5$ to Azure and 7.9$ to Databricks. My question here would be - isn't that a bit much? I pay twice the amount to Databricks for something running on Azure that I also have to pay for separately (to Azure)?

I hope my question isn't too confusing. I'm just trying to understand what's going on. Nobody likes surprise with regard to costs.

Thanks

Re: How does reported billing in Azure relate to Databricks?

raffael — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:38:24 GMT

Here's the SKU perspective of the costs in Databricks:

Re: How does reported billing in Azure relate to Databricks?

Advika — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:55:57 GMT

Hello @raffael!

It appears that this post duplicates another one you’ve posted earlier. The original post has already been answered. I recommend continuing the discussion there to keep the conversation focused and organized.

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