dbt
dbt Labs operates dbt Cloud, the managed platform for the open-source dbt (data build tool) used to transform data inside cloud warehouses. dbt Cloud exposes a set of APIs for managing accounts, projects, jobs, and runs programmatically (Administrative API), inspecting project metadata (Discovery API), and querying governed metrics (Semantic Layer API).
dbt publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Accounts API, Environments API, Jobs API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Analytics Engineering, Data, ELT, Metrics, and Project.
The dbt catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
dbt’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, developer portal, pricing, GitHub presence, and 30 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Integration (ELT connectors and data governance) | gravity | 53.7 | - | - |
| IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs) | gravity | 53.7 | - | - |
| OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders | gravity | 53.7 | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 10
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
dbt Accounts API
The Accounts API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for accounts.
dbt Environments API
The Environments API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for environments.
dbt Jobs API
The Jobs API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for jobs.
dbt Metrics API
The Metrics API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
dbt Projects API
The Projects API from dbt — 2 operation(s) for projects.
dbt Runs API
The Runs API from dbt — 4 operation(s) for runs.
dbt Fast API
The FastAPI API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for fastapi.
dbt Private API
The Private API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for private.
dbt Ready API
The Ready API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for ready.
dbt Graph QL API
The Graph QL API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for graph ql.
Scroll for all 10
Postman Collections 3
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
dbt Cloud Administrative API
POSTMANdbt Cloud Discovery API
POSTMANdbt Cloud Semantic Layer API
POSTMANOpen Collections 10
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
dbt Cloud Administrative Accounts API
OPEN COLLECTIONdbt Cloud Administrative API
OPEN COLLECTIONdbt Cloud Discovery API
OPEN COLLECTIONdbt Cloud Semantic Layer API
OPEN COLLECTIONdbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Environments API
OPEN COLLECTIONdbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Jobs API
OPEN COLLECTIONdbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Metadata API
OPEN COLLECTIONdbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Metrics API
OPEN COLLECTIONdbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Projects API
OPEN COLLECTIONdbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Runs API
OPEN COLLECTIONScroll for all 10
Arazzo Workflows 13
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
dbt Cloud Account, Project and Job Inventory
Walk from the first account to its projects to its jobs to build a hierarchy snapshot.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Bootstrap From Account to First Run
Resolve account, project and environment, create a job, and trigger its first run.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Create Job and Run It
Create a new job in a project environment, then immediately trigger a run of it.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Create, Run, Poll and Collect Artifacts
Create a job, trigger it, poll the run to success (status 10), and list artifacts.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Environment-Scoped Job Run
Pick an environment, create a job in it, and trigger the job's first run.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Find Job and Trigger Run
List jobs in an account, fetch the job's configuration, then trigger a run of it.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Job Run History and Latest Artifacts
List runs, read the most recent run, and fetch its artifacts when it succeeded.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Provision a Job in a Project Environment
Resolve a project and one of its environments, then create a job bound to both.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Re-run the Latest Failed Run
Inspect the most recent run, and if it failed, re-trigger its job.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Get Run and Fetch Its Artifacts
Read a run, branch on whether it succeeded, and list its artifacts only on success.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Run Completion to Metadata Discovery
Confirm a run succeeded, then query the Discovery API for the models it produced.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Run Completion to Semantic Layer Metrics
Confirm a run succeeded, then query the Semantic Layer API for available metrics.
ARAZZOdbt Cloud Trigger Run and Poll to Completion
Trigger a dbt Cloud job run, poll the run until it succeeds, then list its artifacts.
ARAZZOScroll for all 13
GraphQL 1
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
dbt GraphQL API
Every time dbt Cloud runs a project, it generates and stores information about the project. The Discovery API exposes that metadata including details about models, sources, expo...
GRAPHQLdbt API pricing
Prices published by dbt, read 2026-10-28 from www.getdbt.com/pricing. A free plan or tier is listed.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Developer | Free Includes: One Developer seat, 3,000 successful models built per month, 1 project |
| Starter | $100 per user/month Includes: Five developer seats, 15,000 successful models built per month, 5,000 queried metrics per month, 1 p |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing Includes: Custom Developer seat count, 100,000 successful models built per month, 20,000 queried metrics per m |
| Enterprise+ | Custom Pricing Includes: Custom Developer seat count, 100,000 successful models built per month, 20,000 queried metrics per m |
| dbt State add-on | Pay-as-you-go: $0.094/ DATT Includes: 30 day free trial and free monthly usage available |
| dbt Wizard add-on | Each AI model has its own unique per-token pricing Includes: Free trial and free monthly usage available; $100/mo in Wizard credits per account (Enterprise), $20 |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
- Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
- Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute
Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against dbt's documentation. All 5 limits →
Billed by: user · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Dbt Plans Pricing
PLANSDbt Price Estimates
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Dbt Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
dbt
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Dbt Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Dbt Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.
dbt — cloud administrative api rules
SPECTRALdbt — jsonschema rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
dbt Cloud Job
JSON SCHEMAdbt Cloud Run
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 15
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Scroll for all 15
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
dbt API — frequently asked questions
Does dbt have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from dbt, including dbt Accounts API, dbt Environments API and dbt Jobs API, and 7 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the dbt API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 10 OpenAPI specifications for dbt, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the dbt API?
dbt uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Dbt Authentication.
How much does the dbt API cost?
dbt publishes its prices; its Starter plan is $100 per user/month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 6 pricing plans for dbt, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the dbt API ready for AI agents?
dbt has a Kin Score of 51.8 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
Work with this as data
Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.