Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Keboola
Keboola clearly comes out ahead of dbt on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Both offer a free tier. dbt's paid plans start at $100/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | saas tool | saas tool |
| Company | Keboola | - |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | moderate |
| Integration | - | medium |
| Trending | Stable | Active |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | Data & AnalyticsDevelopment | Data & Analytics |
| Categories | data-engineering | data-engineering |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
Keboola
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custom
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| Feature | keboola | dbt |
|---|---|---|
| 700+ Data Connectors | ||
| 1 Project | ||
| All From The Free Tier | ||
| 100,000 Successful Models Built Per Month | ||
| Any Storage (Snowflake, Bigquery, Duckdb...) | ||
| 15,000 Successful Models Built Per Month | ||
| Data Applications / Workflow Templates | ||
| 20,000 Queried Metrics Per Month | ||
| Data Share / Catalog | ||
| 3,000 Successful Models Built Per Month | ||
| Dedicated Technical Account Manager [Tam] | ||
| 30 Projects | ||
| Dev/Prod Mode - Git Ci/Cd & Sox | ||
| 5,000 Queried Metrics Per Month | ||
| Extra Small Snowflake Backend | ||
| Custom Developer Seat Count | ||
| Flow Builder | ||
| Five (5) Developer Seats | ||
| Keboola Mcp Server | ||
| One Developer Seat | ||
| One Keboola Project | ||
| Unlimited Projects | ||
| Public/Private Saas Deployments [Vpc] | ||
| Saml & Google/Azure Sso | ||
| Soc 2 Type Ii Certification, Gdpr & Hipaa Compliance | ||
| Sql And Python Transformations | ||
| Tailored Cdc & Streaming | ||
| Unlimited Etl/Elt Pipelines |
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Dashes mean the feature isn't listed in our data. The tool may still support it.
On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Keboola comes out ahead overall, though dbt can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Both Keboola and dbt offer a free tier.
Keboola scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
dbt is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
