[Eumenes]

Looks cool but I don't like to push to paid managed services like dbt. Rather use something like Airflow but its not as easy to use for most teams.

[Jgrubb]

As the other poster mentioned, DBT is an open core product and I'm not sure how you'd use the cloud service on a local DB install anyway. Airflow and DBT don't really do the same things anyway.

[bart_spoon]

DBT is open source and can be used entirely for free. They sell a hosted version.

Also DBT and Airflow are different tools, aimed at solving completely different problems. The Airflow competitor in this article is Dagster, which is also open source.

[contravariant]

I'm not sure those two solve the same problem. Regardless airflow is an amazingly useful tool.

[Hasnep]

dbt-core is open source and can be used locally.