dbt Cloud · Rate Limits

Dbt Cloud Rate Limits

The dbt Cloud Administrative API enforces per-account request rate limits and returns HTTP 429 when they are exceeded; clients should poll run status on a reasonable interval (for example every 10 or more seconds) rather than tightly. The Discovery (Metadata) and Semantic Layer APIs apply their own query limits. Plan-level usage allowances (successful models built per month and queried metrics per month) act as the primary consumption ceilings. Specific numeric per-endpoint request rates are not reconciled in this artifact.

Dbt Cloud Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for dbt Cloud on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, results, models, and metrics.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Data, Analytics Engineering, Data Transformation, ELT, and Semantic Layer.

6 Limits Throttle: 429
DataAnalytics EngineeringData TransformationELTSemantic LayerRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Administrative API Requests account
requests
see provider documentation
Per-account request rate on cloud.getdbt.com/api/v2 and /api/v3; returns 429 when exceeded.
Run Status Polling account
requests
poll on a reasonable interval
Poll run status (e.g. every 10s or more) rather than continuously to avoid throttling.
Pagination Page Size request
results
100
List endpoints cap the limit query parameter at 100 results per page; use offset to paginate.
Successful Models Built account
models
plan-dependent (3,000 Developer / 15,000 Starter / 100,000 Enterprise per month)
Monthly successful-model build allowance per plan acts as a consumption ceiling.
Queried Metrics (Semantic Layer) account
metrics
plan-dependent (5,000 Starter / 20,000 Enterprise per month)
Monthly Semantic Layer queried-metrics allowance per plan.
Discovery API Queries account
requests
see provider documentation
GraphQL queries to metadata.cloud.getdbt.com/graphql are subject to their own query limits.

Policies

Tiered Allowances
Monthly model-build and queried-metric allowances scale up across Developer, Starter, Enterprise, and Enterprise+ plans.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on HTTP 429 and poll run status at a sensible interval.

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