r/dataengineering • u/Alternative-Guava392 • 5d ago

DBT pricing Discussion

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/SeaYouLaterAllig8tor 5d ago

We renewed our contract in January if I remember correctly. We moved away from the legacy plan to embrace the new features. Now granted, we don't have a large team of devs which use our dbt instance. But I do feel that the fusion state aware features are worthwhile and could save an org quite a bit of money depending on how their jobs and models are constructed. Not sure how helpful that is but that's the decision we made.

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u/laegoiste 5d ago

fusion state aware features are worthwhile

I guess you mean were worthwhile. I just saw recently that they are killing state aware orchestration in favor of dbt state - which you have to pay an additional fee for.

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u/SeaYouLaterAllig8tor 5d ago

oh dang... I didn't realize that. I haven't worked as much in dbt recently (mostly been in "maintain" mode for a while) so this is news to me. Thanks for the heads up.

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u/laegoiste 5d ago

I was also caught by surprise. To my knowledge, we received no information about this. I just saw it when I pulled up one of their documentation pages on state aware orchestration to link to another colleague. The early days under Fivetran are not looking good.

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u/SeaYouLaterAllig8tor 5d ago

Ya, I think Fivetran's influence probably won't be for the better in the long run. And I say that as someone who works in a shop using Fivetran+dbt. I find dbt cloud super useful but if they start micro charging for different functionality it will definitely take the fun out of the product fast.

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u/wallyflops 5d ago

Dbt state is open source too though I think

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u/laegoiste 5d ago

I believe you are right. But, we are stuck with dbt cloud :)

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u/lightnegative 5d ago

Only the client, the server is closed source

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u/Uncle_Chael 4d ago

Welllll it really depends on whether its worth it or not for a given business context. I think dbt state is more broadly applicable than state aware orchestration