# dbt pricing

Last confirmed on the vendor's page: 2026-11-08. Source: https://getdbt.com/pricing. Confidence: high.

Cheapest paid plan: Starter, $100 a month per user.

| Plan | Per month | Unit | Billing | On the vendor's page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Developer | Free |  |  |  |
| Starter | $100 | seat | monthly | Starter For teams collaborating on their first dbt project. $100 per user/month |
| Enterprise | Contact sales |  |  |  |

## Hidden costs and limits

- Model run overages: Starter includes 15,000 runs/month. Every run beyond costs $0.01.
- Consumption-based pricing makes costs unpredictable: unlike flat per-seat pricing, your bill varies monthly based on how many models run.
- Queried metrics (Semantic Layer) are separately metered: Starter includes 5,000 queries/month. Dashboards hitting the Semantic Layer can burn through this in days if not monitored
- dbt Cloud IDE is the only supported development environment on paid plans, you cannot use VS Code or another editor without losing CI/CD integration. This creates IDE lock-in
- Multiple projects require Enterprise: Starter limits you to 1 project. Teams managing separate data products or domains need Enterprise at 4x the cost
- dbt Core is free but requires significant DevOps investment: setting up Airflow/Dagster for scheduling, managing environments, and building CI/CD pipelines costs engineering time that dbt Cloud replaces with managed infrastructure
- Annual billing is required on Enterprise, no monthly option. Starter offers monthly billing but at higher effective rates than annual

## Cite

Toolradar, verified 2026-11-08, https://toolradar.com/tools/dbt/pricing

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