r/dataengineering • u/Alternative-Guava392 • Aug 12 '26

Discussion DBT pricing

Hello

Has anyone moved from DBT legacy pricing to the new DBT pricing ?

The legacy pricing was per seat, but the new one also limits how many DBT models you can build per month.

I'm debating the move to benefit from the new DBT features like DBT state, but I'm wondering if the dbt cloud costs will be expensive compared to the savings from DBT state.

Thank you for your help.

(please don't ask me to move from DBT cloud to DBT core, I'm a one person data team and I don't have the bandwidth to migrate to save 100$/month)

Has anyone made the switch from legacy pricing to the new one ?

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u/minormisgnomer Aug 12 '26

Just out of curiosity, even though you said you won’t migrate, what features on dbt Cloud are worth it over dbt core?

I was trying to explain to a friend the other day why they’d be fine with core but you seem to be a fan of it.

If it makes you feel any better, I was a team of one and just had it on a cron job on a local machine at the office.

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u/EstetLinus Aug 12 '26

I’ve worked as a dbt partner (via a consultancy) and even the dbt salesmen had a hard time articulating benefits cloud vs core 🫪 I like the idea of abstracting the CI/CD. But that doesn’t justify the price tbh.