How much does dbt cost?

dbt publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Developer (Free) up to On request for Enterprise+. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Developer (Free) and Starter on dbt?

Starter costs $100/user/month against Free, and adds five developer seats, 15,000 successful models built per month, dbt catalog, semantic layer basics.

Is the Enterprise+ plan on dbt worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is unlimited projects, all enterprise features, privatelink, ip restrictions. It costs On request against $100/user/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which database & data management tools can I use without paying?

5 of the 8 database & data management tools listed alongside dbt have a free tier: Cloudinary, Azure SQL, Amazon Aurora, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot.

What am I actually paying for with dbt?

The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The dbt review carries whatever feature detail is available.

Does dbt charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these dbt prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare dbt against before paying?

The closest database & data management tools in this directory are Knack, Ninox, Grist, Cloudinary. Each has a side-by-side comparison with dbt covering price, platforms and features.

Database & Data Management · pricing

dbt pricing

dbt publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free, then $100/user/month
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 4
Free tier: Yes

dbt plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

dbt pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Developer (Free)	Free	4	Entry tier
Starter	$100/user/month	6	+$100/user/month, 6 more features
Enterprise	On request	6	Priced on request
Enterprise+	On request	5	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Developer (Free)

Free

The entry tier. It covers one developer seat, 3,000 successful models built per month, browser ide, job scheduling.

Starter

$100/user/month

Over Developer (Free), this tier adds:

Five Developer seats
15,000 successful models built per month
dbt Catalog
Semantic Layer basics
API access
14-day free trial available

Enterprise

On request

Over Starter, this tier adds:

Custom Developer seat count
100,000 successful models built per month
30 projects
dbt Canvas
dbt Mesh
Custom pricing

Enterprise+

On request

Over Enterprise, this tier adds:

Unlimited projects
All Enterprise features
PrivateLink
IP Restrictions
Hybrid deployment

Where dbt stops being free

Developer (Free), Free

One Developer seat
3,000 successful models built per month
Browser IDE
Job scheduling

Starter, $100/user/month

The first thing you pay for:

Five Developer seats
15,000 successful models built per month
dbt Catalog
Semantic Layer basics
API access
14-day free trial available

How that compares in Database & Data Management

Too few database & data management tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

dbt entry price against other Database & Data Management tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
dbt (this page)	Free, then $100/user/month	freemium	-
Knack	On request	subscription	-	vs dbt
Ninox	On request	subscription	-	vs dbt
Grist	On request	subscription	-	vs dbt
Cloudinary	Free	freemium	-	vs dbt
Azure SQL	Free	-	-	vs dbt
Amazon Aurora	Free	usage-based	-	vs dbt

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the dbt badges page.

Before you pay for dbt

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

dbt runs on cloud, self-hosted, ide integration (vs code, cursor, claude code, windsurf). The full record is on the dbt review, and the rest of the category is under best database & data management tools.

dbt pricing on the vendor's own site

dbt pricing questions

How much does dbt cost?: dbt publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Developer (Free) up to On request for Enterprise+. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does dbt have a free plan?: Yes. The Developer (Free) tier costs nothing and covers one developer seat, 3,000 successful models built per month, browser ide. Paying starts at $100/user/month for Starter.
What is the difference between Developer (Free) and Starter on dbt?: Starter costs $100/user/month against Free, and adds five developer seats, 15,000 successful models built per month, dbt catalog, semantic layer basics.
Is the Enterprise+ plan on dbt worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is unlimited projects, all enterprise features, privatelink, ip restrictions. It costs On request against $100/user/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which database & data management tools can I use without paying?: 5 of the 8 database & data management tools listed alongside dbt have a free tier: Cloudinary, Azure SQL, Amazon Aurora, Apache Druid, Apache Pinot.
What am I actually paying for with dbt?: The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The dbt review carries whatever feature detail is available.
Does dbt charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these dbt prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare dbt against before paying?: The closest database & data management tools in this directory are Knack, Ninox, Grist, Cloudinary. Each has a side-by-side comparison with dbt covering price, platforms and features.