Welcome to the dbt Fusion engine: Our fastest, most intelligent dbt experience yet
Bring the full power of the new dbt Fusion engine into your local development environment with features like live error detection, lightning-fast parse times, insights and rich lineage all in VS Code, Cursor or Windsurf

Accelerating data transformation for teams around the world
The full power of Fusion, right in your local developer environment
The VS Code Extension brings the best of Fusion’s development experience to your IDE. Accelerate your IDE and get the most out of dbt with our new VS Code Extension.

The Fusion engine with VS Code Extension is how folks will want to develop with dbt moving forward. This is awesome. It’s the experience we’ve all been waiting for.
Bruno Souza de Lima Lead Data Engineer at pHData

What is Fusion?
Fusion is the all-new engine powering dbt, and is a fundamental shift in how dbt understands and executes your analytics code. With Fusion you get a hyper-responsive development experience and built-in cost savings through dramatically faster performance and native SQL comprehension. The dbt VS Code Extension brings all the development experience enhancements of Fusion directly to VS Code. It’s the only way to unleash the full power of the dbt Fusion engine while developing locally.

Lightning-fast parse times
Fusion understands your SQL and validates it locally. Paired with the high-performing Rust language means parsing even the largest projects are up to 30x faster than with dbt Core.

Catch SQL Errors in Real Time
No more waiting for your platform to debug your code for you. Catch errors, like misspelled column names to save time debugging and avoid unnecessary warehouse expenses.

View Model and Column Lineage in context
No more generating dbt docs to visualize lineage. Interact with a live visualization of your project’s lineage directly in VS Code or Cursor.
Read more about the dbt Fusion, and our VS Code extension
Bring the full power of the dbt Fusion engine into your local environment with features like live error detection, lightning-fast parse times, insights and rich lineage all in VS Code or Cursor.