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 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Accounts API, Environments API, Jobs API, and 4 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 authentication, documentation, developer portal, pricing, GitHub presence, and 25 more developer resources.

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51.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent open core · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

3 APIs

Analytics Engineering Data ELT Metrics Project SQL Transformation

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 51.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.9 / 15

Access Clarity 8.3 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.3 / 10

Contract Governance 5.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/dbt: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

APIs 7

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 Metadata API

The Metadata API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for metadata.

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.

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Postman Collections 3

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

dbt Cloud Administrative API

POSTMAN

dbt Cloud Discovery API

POSTMAN

dbt Cloud Semantic Layer API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 11

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Administrative Accounts API

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Administrative API

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Discovery API

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Semantic Layer API

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Environments API

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Jobs API

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Metadata API

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Metrics API

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Projects API

OPEN COLLECTION

dbt Cloud Administrative Accounts Runs API

OPEN COLLECTION

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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.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Bootstrap From Account to First Run

Resolve account, project and environment, create a job, and trigger its first run.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Create Job and Run It

Create a new job in a project environment, then immediately trigger a run of it.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Create, Run, Poll and Collect Artifacts

Create a job, trigger it, poll the run to success (status 10), and list artifacts.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Environment-Scoped Job Run

Pick an environment, create a job in it, and trigger the job's first run.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Find Job and Trigger Run

List jobs in an account, fetch the job's configuration, then trigger a run of it.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Job Run History and Latest Artifacts

List runs, read the most recent run, and fetch its artifacts when it succeeded.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Provision a Job in a Project Environment

Resolve a project and one of its environments, then create a job bound to both.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Re-run the Latest Failed Run

Inspect the most recent run, and if it failed, re-trigger its job.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Get Run and Fetch Its Artifacts

Read a run, branch on whether it succeeded, and list its artifacts only on success.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Run Completion to Metadata Discovery

Confirm a run succeeded, then query the Discovery API for the models it produced.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Run Completion to Semantic Layer Metrics

Confirm a run succeeded, then query the Semantic Layer API for available metrics.

ARAZZO

dbt Cloud Trigger Run and Poll to Completion

Trigger a dbt Cloud job run, poll the run until it succeeds, then list its artifacts.

ARAZZO

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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...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Dbt Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Dbt Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Dbt Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Dbt Context

6 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

dbt API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

dbt API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

dbt Cloud Job

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

dbt Cloud Run

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Dbt Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Dbt Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Dbt Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Dbt Agentic Access

12 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 15

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

JSONLD

Vocabulary

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Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHub

GitHub

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dbt
name: dbt
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dbt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
kind: company
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: Apache-2.0
  license_evidence:
    repo: dbt-labs/dbt-core
    spdx: Apache-2.0
    stars: 13923
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-license
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dbt.png
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-25
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Analytics Engineering
- Data
- ELT
- Metrics
- Project
- SQL
- Transformation
tags_raw:
- Analytics Engineering
- Data
- ELT
- Metrics
- Projects
- SQL
- Transformation
created: '2025-01-08'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
description: 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).
apis:
- aid: dbt:dbt-accounts-api
  name: dbt Accounts API
  description: The Accounts API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for accounts.
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  baseURL: https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Account
  tags_raw:
  - Accounts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dbt-accounts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-job.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-run.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/dbt-cloud-administrative-api-rules.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/discovery-api
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/dbt-graphql.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-api-overview
- aid: dbt:dbt-environments-api
  name: dbt Environments API
  description: The Environments API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for environments.
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  baseURL: https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Environment
  tags_raw:
  - Environments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dbt-environments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-job.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-run.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/dbt-cloud-administrative-api-rules.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/discovery-api
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/dbt-graphql.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-api-overview
- aid: dbt:dbt-jobs-api
  name: dbt Jobs API
  description: The Jobs API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for jobs.
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  baseURL: https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Job
  tags_raw:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dbt-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-job.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-run.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/dbt-cloud-administrative-api-rules.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/discovery-api
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/dbt-graphql.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-api-overview
- aid: dbt:dbt-metadata-api
  name: dbt Metadata API
  description: The Metadata API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for metadata.
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  baseURL: https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dbt-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-job.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-run.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/dbt-cloud-administrative-api-rules.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/discovery-api
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/dbt-graphql.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-api-overview
- aid: dbt:dbt-metrics-api
  name: dbt Metrics API
  description: The Metrics API from dbt — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  baseURL: https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dbt-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-job.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-run.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/dbt-cloud-administrative-api-rules.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/discovery-api
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/dbt-graphql.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-api-overview
- aid: dbt:dbt-projects-api
  name: dbt Projects API
  description: The Projects API from dbt — 2 operation(s) for projects.
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  baseURL: https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dbt-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-job.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-run.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/dbt-cloud-administrative-api-rules.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/discovery-api
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/dbt-graphql.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-api-overview
- aid: dbt:dbt-runs-api
  name: dbt Runs API
  description: The Runs API from dbt — 4 operation(s) for runs.
  humanURL: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  baseURL: https://cloud.getdbt.com/api/v3
  tags:
  - Runs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dbt-runs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/admin-cloud-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-job.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/dbt-run.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/dbt-cloud-administrative-api-rules.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/discovery-api
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/dbt-graphql.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-api-overview
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/dbt-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/dbt-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dbt-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/dbt-authentication.yml
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/dbt/overview
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-account-project-job-inventory-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Account, Project and Job Inventory
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-bootstrap-account-and-run-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Bootstrap From Account to First Run
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-create-job-and-run-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Create Job and Run It
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-create-run-poll-artifacts-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Create, Run, Poll and Collect Artifacts
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-environment-job-run-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Environment-Scoped Job Run
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-find-job-and-run-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Find Job and Trigger Run
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-job-run-history-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Job Run History and Latest Artifacts
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-provision-job-in-environment-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Provision a Job in a Project Environment
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-rerun-latest-failed-run-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Re-run the Latest Failed Run
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-run-and-fetch-artifacts-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Get Run and Fetch Its Artifacts
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-run-metadata-discovery-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Run Completion to Metadata Discovery
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-run-to-semantic-metrics-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Run Completion to Semantic Layer Metrics
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/dbt-trigger-run-and-poll-workflow.yml
  name: dbt Cloud Trigger Run and Poll to Completion
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dbtlabs
- type: Website
  url: https://www.getdbt.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.getdbt.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/overview
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/authentication
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.getdbt.com/pricing
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core
- type: SDKs
  url: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/sl-python
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.getdbt.com/cloud/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.getdbt.com/cloud/privacy-policy
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/dbt-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/dbt-vocabulary.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.getdbt.com/partners
integrations:
- name: dbt
- name: dbt Labs
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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