Power User for dbt installs statistics
By Altimate Inc. · VS Code Marketplace · Programming Languages
a.k.a. dbt power user makes vscode work seamlessly with dbt™ core and dbt™ cloud: auto-complete, preview, column lineage, AI docs generation, health checks, cost estimation etc
Power User for dbt has 542,378 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #812 of 2,502 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.92 / 5 from 50 ratings
About Power User for dbt
vscode-dbt-power-user
This open source extension makes VSCode seamlessly work with dbt™.
If you need help with setting up the extension, please check the documentation. For any issues or bugs, please contact us via chat or Slack.
Features:
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Auto-complete dbt™ code | Auto-fill model names, macros, sources and docs. Click on model names, macros, sources to go to definitions. |
| Preview Query results and Analyze | Generate dbt™ model / query results. Export as CSV or analyze results by creating graphs, filters, groups |
| Column lineage | Model lineage as well as column lineage |
| Generate dbt™ Models | from source files or convert SQL to dbt™ Model (docs) |
| Generate documentation | Generate model and column descriptions or write in the UI editor. Save formatted text in YAML files. |
| Defer to prod | Build your model in development without building (by defering) your upstream models |
| Click to run parent / child models and tests | Just click to do common dbt™ operations like running tests, parent / child models or previewing data. |
| Compiled query preview and explanation | Get live preview of compiled query as your write code. Also, generate explanations for dbt™ code written previously (by somebody else) |
| Project health check | Identify issues in your dbt™ project like columns not present, models not materialized |
| SQL validator | Identify issues in SQL like typos in keywords, missing or extra parentheses, non-existent columns |
| Big Query cost estimator | Estimate data that will be processed by dbt™ model in BigQuery |
| Other features | dbt™ logs viewer (force tailing) |
Note: This extension is fully compatible with dev containers, code spaces and remote extension. See Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers and Visual Studio Code Remote - WSL. The extension is supported for dbt™ versions above 1.0.
Features
<a id="autocomplete">Autocomplete model, macro, source names and click to go to definition</a>
Auto-fill model names, macros, sources and docs. Click on model names, macros, sources to go to definitions. (docs)

<a id="querypreview">Preview query results and analyze</a>
Generate dbt™ model / query results. Export as CSV or analyze results by creating graphs, filters, groups. (docs)

<a id="lineage">Column lineage</a>
View model lineage as well as column lineage with components like models, seeds, sources, exposures and info like model types, tests, documentation, linkage types. (docs)

<a id="genmodel"> Generate dbt™ Models from source or SQL</a>
Generate dbt™ models from sources defined in YAML. You can also convert existing SQL to a dbt™ model where references get populated automatically. (docs)

<a id="gendoc"> Generate documentation</a>
Generate model and column descriptions automatically or write descriptions manually in the UI editor. Your descriptions are automatically formatted and saved in YAML files. (docs)

<a id="defertoprod">Defer to prod</a>…
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- dbt
- dbt power user
- jinja-sql
- keybindings
- snippet
- sql
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Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=innoverio.vscode-dbt-power-user. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 21, 2026. See the methodology.