Enable dbt Copilot Enterprise

Enable Copilot, an AI-powered assistant, in dbt Cloud to speed up your development and focus on delivering quality data.

This page explains how to enable Copilot in dbt Cloud to speed up your development and allow you to focus on delivering quality data.

Prerequisites

• Available in the dbt Cloud only.
• Must have a dbt Cloud Enterprise account.
• Development environment is on a supported release track to receive ongoing updates.
• By default, Copilot deployments use a central OpenAI API key managed by dbt Labs. Alternatively, you can provide your own OpenAI API key.
• Copilot is optimized for OpenAI's gpt-3.x, gpt-4o, gpt-4.1-[mini|nano], and gpt-4.5 (deprecated by OpenAI) models. Other models, like o1 and o2, are not supported and will not work with Copilot.
• Opt-in to AI features by following the steps in the next section in your Account settings.

Enable dbt Copilot

To opt in to Copilot, a dbt Cloud admin can follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Account settings in the navigation menu.
2. Under Settings, confirm the account you're enabling.
3. Click Edit in the top right corner.
4. Enable the Enable account access to AI-powered features option.
5. Click Save. You should now have Copilot AI enabled for use.

Note: To disable (only after enabled), repeat steps 1 to 3, toggle off in step 4, and repeat step 5.

Example of the 'Enable account access to AI-powered feature' option in Account settings

Bringing your own OpenAI API key (BYOK)

Once AI features have been enabled, you can provide your organization's OpenAI API key. dbt Cloud will then leverage your OpenAI account and terms to power Copilot. This will incur billing charges to your organization from OpenAI for requests made by Copilot.

Configure AI keys using:

• dbt Labs-managed OpenAI API key
• Your own OpenAI API key
• Azure OpenAI

For configuration details, see Account integrations.