Vendor
dbt Cloud
dbt Cloud Developer is free for one seat. Team is $100 / seat / month and remains the mid-market default. Enterprise prices per successful model-run plus seats. The Fivetran + dbt Labs merger closed 1 June 2026 with the Team-tier price held - at least for the rest of 2026.source - pulled 2026-06-21
Pricing model
Per-seat (Developer/Team) + per-successful-model-run on Enterprise.
Cheapest published rate: Developer: free for 1 seatdbt Cloud pricing page - pulled 2026-06-21
2026 changes
Merged with Fivetran (closed 1 Jun 2026); Team tier price held at $100/seat/mo post-close.
Verified 2026-06-21.
Pricing in detail
An 8-seat Team deployment runs $800 / month. Enterprise adds SSO, RBAC, and the model-run meter; teams with very large model graphs sometimes negotiate flat-rate alternatives.
Post-merger, dbt Cloud roadmap items target deeper Fivetran integration (lineage across loads and transforms). Buyers signing new Enterprise deals should ask about combined-product pricing.
When to pick dbt Cloud
Pick dbt Cloud when the team wants a hosted IDE, a managed scheduler, and CI/CD for dbt without self-hosting. The IDE remains the easiest way to onboard analysts to dbt.
Avoid dbt Cloud when dbt Core run from CI is sufficient and the cost line is a sensitive number - dbt Core is free under Apache 2.0 and many teams run it well from GitHub Actions or an orchestrator.
Mid-market estimate
For a 50M-MAR mid-market profile, the published rate produces an estimated subscription line of $800/mo. Team tier, 8 developer seats.source - pulled 2026-06-21Run the full TCO at /tco-calculator.
Related
Written by Oliver Wakefield-Smith, Founder of Digital Signet. Independent reference, no vendor sponsorship.
Sources logged at /sources. Pricing-change history at /changelog. Last reviewed 2026-06-21.