How much does dbt cost?

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

Does dbt have a free plan?

Yes. The Developer tier costs nothing. Paying starts at $100/seat/month for Starter.

Is the Enterprise+ plan on dbt worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is not itemised separately from the tier below it. It costs On request against $100/seat/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 databases tools can I use without paying?

5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside dbt have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.

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 databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with dbt covering price, platforms and features.

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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.

As of 2 September 2026, dbt pricing is free across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Subscription|free
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	-	Entry tier
Starter	$100/seat/month	-	+$100/seat/month
Enterprise	On request	-	Priced on request
Enterprise+	On request	-	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

The entry tier. The record does not itemise what it includes.

Starter

$100/seat/month

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Developer on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Enterprise

On request

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Starter on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Enterprise+

On request

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Enterprise on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Where dbt stops being free

Developer, Free

The record does not itemise what the free tier includes.

Starter, $100/seat/month

The record lists no feature the paid tier has and the free one does not, which usually means the paid tier lifts limits rather than unlocking capability. The vendor's page is the place to confirm which limits.

How that compares in Databases

Too few databases 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 Databases tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
dbt (this page)	Free	subscription\|free	-
Canary Labs	$3000/year	Per tag band per year	-	vs dbt
Presto	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs dbt
Privacera	On request	quote	-	vs dbt
Dremio	Free, then $0.2/hour	Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed	-	vs dbt
Solace PubSub+	Free	quote	-	vs dbt
StarRocks	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	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 not itemised on the record. 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 databases 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 up to On request for Enterprise+. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does dbt have a free plan?: Yes. The Developer tier costs nothing. Paying starts at $100/seat/month for Starter.
Is the Enterprise+ plan on dbt worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is not itemised separately from the tier below it. It costs On request against $100/seat/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 databases tools can I use without paying?: 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside dbt have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
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 databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with dbt covering price, platforms and features.