Tooldbt Labs/10 trustVerified
dbt Cloud
Hosted dbt — the analytics engineering standard.
About
dbt Cloud (getdbt.com) is the hosted dbt platform: the analytics-engineering standard (transform data in your warehouse with SQL) plus CI, docs, and observability.
dbt Core is Apache-2.0 open source; Cloud is the commercial host. If your org does analytics engineering, this is the default platform.
What it can do
- Hosted dbt runs
- CI for analytics
- Auto-generated docs
- Observability
- Apache-2.0 dbt Core
Setup
- Sign up at getdbt.com.
- Connect your warehouse and git repo.
- Build models in SQL; run CI on PRs.
- Publish docs and exposures.
Prerequisites
Data warehouse; git repo.
Use cases
dataautomation
Works with
Generic APIAny agent (.md)
Trust score — 8/10
/10 trustVerified
Scored 8/10 (verified tier). The analytics-engineering category standard with Apache-2.0 Core. Docked for the proprietary Cloud layer. Adoption is a provider-tier estimate (thinner evidence). Verified tier.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 6.9/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · analytics engineering platform; no public repo — adoption estimated
- · released 285 days ago
- · manual review: dbt Cloud — hosted dbt with CI, docs, observability; category standard; license: proprietary cloud; dbt Core is Apache-2.0
Sources
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