G2 Vendor Directory

Microsoft Power BI vs. dbt

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricMicrosoft Power BI

by Microsoft

dbt

by Fivetran

Overall rating4.54.7
Review count1,659209
Ease of use8.79.1
Ease of setup9.08.8
Quality of support8.79.0
Meets requirements9.19.3
NPS70.09345881.25
Small Business21.0%27.1%
Mid-Market36.8%56.5%
Enterprise42.2%16.4%
Total page views4,344780
Total LLM citations32,7704,329

Microsoft Power BI

Power BI Desktop puts visual analytics at your fingertips. With this powerful authoring tool, you can create interactive data visualizations and reports. Connect, mash up, model, and visualize your data. Place visuals exactly where you want them, analyze and explore your data, and share content with others by publishing to the Power BI web service. Power BI Desktop is part of the Power BI product suite. To monitor key data and share dashboards and reports, use the Power BI web service.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Data Visualization
  • Integrations
  • Powerful BI
  • Data Integration
  • Charting Features

dbt

dbt is a transformation workflow that lets data teams quickly and collaboratively deploy analytics code following software engineering best practices like modularity, portability, CI/CD, and documentation. Now anyone who knows SQL can build production-grade data pipelines.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Automation
  • Transformation
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Data Quality