dbt pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Developer: $0 month
- Starter: $100 user/month
- Enterprise: Custom (custom)
- Enterprise+: Custom (custom)
- Worth noting: Starter offers a trial (length not stated). The comparison table's per-feature checkmarks are not legible in the source text, so only rows with stated values are included. Starter includes five developer seats.
Plans
Developer
$0 month
- One developer seat
- 3,000 successful models built per month
- 1 project
- Browser-based IDE
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Job scheduling and monitoring
- CI checks on GitHub and GitLab
- Upgrade to the latest dbt release automatically
Starter
$100 user/month
- Five developer seats
- 15,000 successful models built per month
- 5,000 queried metrics per month
- 1 project
- All features in Developer
- Lineage with dbt Catalog
- Define & query metrics with dbt Semantic Layer
- API access
Enterprise
Custom custom
- Custom developer seat count
- 100,000 successful models built per month
- 20,000 queried metrics per month
- 30 projects
- All features in Starter
- Column-level lineage in dbt Catalog
- Governed metrics with caching
- Multi-project architecture (dbt Mesh)
- SSO, Role-Based Access Control, and SCIM provisioning
- Priority support with SLAs
Enterprise+
Custom custom
- Custom developer seat count
- 100,000 successful models built per month
- 20,000 queried metrics per month
- Unlimited projects
- All features in Enterprise
- PrivateLink
- IP Restrictions
- Run dbt in your own environment (Hybrid Projects)
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Developer | Starter | Enterprise | Enterprise+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer seats | 1 | 5 | Custom | Custom |
| Projects | 1 | 1 | 30 | Custom |
| Successful models built per month | 3,000 | 15,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Queried metrics per month | — | 5,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
| dbt Wizard | Free $100 Wizard credit for 30-day free trial, followed by pay-as-you-go | Free $100 Wizard credit for 30-day free trial, followed by pay-as-you-go | $100/mo in Wizard credits per account, additional usage billed as consumption add-on | $200/mo in Wizard credits per account, additional usage billed as consumption add-on |
| Release tracks | Access to the "Latest" release track | Access to the "Latest" and "Compatible" release tracks | Access to all release tracks | Access to all release tracks, including rollbacks |
| Support level | — | 24x5 | Priority support | Priority support |
| Onboarding & Professional Services | — | — | Available to purchase | Available to purchase |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| dbt State | $0.094 per DATT (pay-as-you-go); custom pricing for upfront commits | Self-hosted dbt or any dbt platform plan; 30-day free trial and free monthly usage |
| dbt Wizard | Per-token pricing varying by AI model; BYOK option | Any plan; Developer/Starter get $100 credit 30-day trial, Enterprise $100/mo credits, Enterprise+ $200/mo credits |
dbt pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dbt | Free; paid from $100 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | — | |
| Snowflake | Contact sales | No | Usage-based | Enterprises that run data engineering, analytics and AI on governed enterprise data, including large and highly regulated organizations | Compare → |
| BigQuery | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Databricks | — | — | — | Data engineering, data science, analytics and AI teams at startups and global enterprises | Compare → |
| Fivetran | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
List prices as published on www.getdbt.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.