Transform cost from overhead to opportunity.
In today’s data economy, cost control is no longer optional—it’s strategic. dbt empowers data teams to move beyond reactive cost monitoring and into proactive, value-aligned data operations. Shift the narrative from “cost center” to “profit driver.”
Warehouse costs are rising — efficiency has to keep up.
Modern data teams are building more, faster than ever before. This growth comes with increasing complexity—and ballooning warehouse spend.
Teams need tools to tame cost
Without visibility or tools to control costs preemptively, teams struggle to align their data investments with business impact. This misalignment leads to wasted resources, reactive firefighting, and unclear ROI on data work
Your team doesn't always get to scale
But without embedded efficiency, teams burn out, delivery slows, and the business loses trust. Hiring more people isn't always possible, and buying more tools doesn't always help
Build cost optimization right into the transformation layer
dbt uniquely enabled cost-efficient development by embedding observability and automation directly where transformation happens.
Monitor
Gain visibility into project, environment, model-level, and test-level cost drivers—not just overall warehouse spend
Avoid
Leverage Fusion and CI to prevent unnecessary compute costs before they're incurred
Remediate
Take action where transformation happens: fix issues directly in dbt using code, not tickets
Quickly spot inefficiencies with tools that surface long-running models and high-cost transformations. Dive into job and query performance by environment, user, or workload—and get detailed cost visibility down to the project, environment, model, and test level.
The data team at Bilt is very excited to roll out the new dbt Fusion engine. The improvements it brings will address many of the pain-points we currently face in our development cycle and we believe it will provide a step function increase in our velocity.
James Dorado VP Data Analytics @Bilt Rewards
Before dbt
Redundant queries
Developer time wasted on reactive debugging
Budget overages and unclear ROI
With dbt
Queries built and executed efficiently
Automated cost-awareness in dev workflows
Clear linkage between cost and value
See how leading orgs optimize costs with dbt
Symend enhances data efficiency with dbt
I fell in love with dbt when we were decreasing data latency. We were previously doing full loads, twice a day, and runs took a full 12 hours. We implemented an incremental solution with dbt that significantly increased Snowflake's speed so we could get latency down to two hours."
David Petiot, Principal Data Architect, Enterprise Analytics
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