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dbt Cloud

dbt Cloud Developer is free for one seat and 3,000 successful models built per month. The tier that used to be called Team is now Starter: still $100 per user per month, but capped at five developer seats, with 15,000 successful models and 5,000 queried metrics a month. Above five seats the only option is Enterprise, which is custom-priced at 100,000 models and 20,000 queried metrics a month across 30 projects, or Enterprise+ for unlimited projects. The Fivetran + dbt Labs merger closed 1 June 2026 and the $100 seat price survived it.source - pulled 2026-09-23

Pricing model

Per-seat on Developer and Starter, with a monthly successful-models-built allowance on every tier; Enterprise and Enterprise+ are custom-priced.

Cheapest published rate: Developer: free for 1 seat, 3,000 successful models built per monthdbt Cloud pricing page - pulled 2026-09-23

2026 changes

Merged with Fivetran (closed 1 Jun 2026). The Team tier has since been renamed Starter and capped at five developer seats, still $100 per user per month, with 15,000 successful models built and 5,000 queried metrics per month. Enterprise and a new Enterprise+ tier are both custom-priced, at 100,000 models and 20,000 queried metrics per month, with 30 projects on Enterprise and unlimited on Enterprise+.

Verified 2026-09-23.

Pricing in detail

A five-seat Starter deployment, the tier ceiling, runs $500 a month. The sixth seat is the cliff: there is no larger self-serve tier, so an eight-person analytics team is an Enterprise conversation whether or not it wants one. Enterprise adds SSO, role-based access control, SCIM provisioning, column-level lineage and multi-project dbt Mesh, and lifts the allowance to 100,000 successful models a month.

Watch the models-built allowance as closely as the seat count. Starter includes 15,000 successful models built per month and Developer just 3,000, so a team running a large graph on a frequent schedule can exhaust the allowance well before it runs out of seats.

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 $500/mo. Starter tier at its five-seat ceiling; beyond five seats the tier is Enterprise, which is custom-priced.source - pulled 2026-09-23Run 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 2026-09-23.