dbt Projects & dbt Platform

dbt Projects helps data teams get started with dbt and dbt Platform helps them scale and work across their data estate

dbt + Snowflake

A strong partnership, made better.

dbt Projects is how you can give any of your customers using dbt Core, the fastest dbt engine out there. dbt Platform is how you enable data teams to work across engines and provide analysts with easy-to-use transformation tooling with dbt Canvas

dbt Platform is how you scale dbt

Orchestrate jobs, reuse assets, and automate testing with dbt for full visibility into your data estate. No manual effort.

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Optimize costs

Ensure quality code reaches production and reduce redundant work by enabling teams to leverage existing projects.

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dbt Platform - MCD approved

dbt is perfect for your underconsuming accounts as you get MCD credit for selling dbt to your customers; something you can't do with dbt Projects.

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Why dbt

Why dbt Platform

What's in it for you

$1 in dbt Platform = $3 to $5 in Snow Consumption

dbt Platform required to unlock this consumption

Accelerate re-buy and next use case

dbt Platform cuts time to first consumption in half

Simple procurement through Snowflake Marketplace

25% quote retirement (NAM) on dbt transactions in the marketplace. dbt reps incented to take through the marketplace

How dbt Cloud integrates seamlessly with Snowflake

dbt sits directly within your Snowflake workflow, bringing advanced governance, transparent lineage, and semantic clarity to your analytics.

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Go further with dbt + Snowflake

Learn about how dbt supports AI use cases, from architecture to implementation.

Unlock AI-ready pipelines with dbt + Snowflake

Unlock AI-ready pipelines with dbt + Snowflake

Combine Snowflake’s speed and scale with dbt’s structure, governance, and modern workflows—building trusted, cost-efficient transformations at production scale.

Bridge your data and ML pipelines with dbt + Snowflake Feature Store

Register your dbt transformations directly in Snowflake’s Feature Store to ensure consistency, visibility, and point-in-time accuracy for ML workloads—no extra migrations necessary.

Scale your analytics with governance and velocity

dbt adds workflow automation, modular transformations, and software-engineering best practices to Snowflake’s elastic compute—so your team can build, reuse, and trust data models with confidence.

Learn how to optimize your Snowflake stack with dbt today.

Schedule a demo to see how dbt enhances your Snowflake investment, accelerates workflows, and delivers better analytics outcomes.

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