dbt State Goes Free Forever With Monthly Allowance for All Users

dbt Labs has made dbt State generally available with a free plan that continues after the trial period ends. Self-hosted dbt users who enable the service can keep using a monthly allowance indefinitely, with no card or contract required. Most dbt platform users will receive a monthly allowance that stays in effect until March 2027.

The company said it built dbt State to help users simplify orchestration, iterate faster in development and cut warehouse compute costs. Since the public preview launched in early June, users asked to try the product with less risk, without worrying about what happens after a trial or undoing configurations tuned for their deployment.

Under the free tier, a trial begins at sign-up with no payment method needed, and the account moves automatically to the free tier at trial end with the full 1,000 DATT monthly allowance, which resets on the first of each month. Trial usage does not count against it. Users wanting more can add a credit card for pay-as-you-go billing or discuss an upfront commit. dbt platform users get 2,000 DATT a month through March 2027 automatically.

dbt State works in production, staging and dev, across self-hosted dbt, the dbt platform, Airflow and Dagster, and on Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks and Redshift. It requires a dbt account because it is a separate service sharing state between runs, charged on a metric called DATT - one model or test skipped or cloned in a day, counted once however often it is reused.

Customers cited simpler deployments, faster development and freed capacity. Virgin Media O2's Gordon Curzon reported 25% savings on both job run time and warehouse compute costs.

Source: dbt Labs Blog