u/mpuchala

The only large EU AI provider is consolidating and entering one of the hottest and most relevant applications of this tech for Europe

I was surprised that EU cloud providers compete well on price with hyperscalers so I decided to do some deeper research and honestly the gap is surprisingly big.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the blog post and founder of Cirran

It feels like they had a lot of momentum early last year and now it's kinda gone? We've decided to go with SQLMesh over dbt for one of our clients and it's fine, works pretty much as intended, but I expected it to be the up-and-coming challenger developing faster and putting pressure on the incumbent. Turns out dbt is actually releasing more features and pretty much covering the things that SQLMesh did better a year ago.

Not to mention LLMs still in 2026 giving me dbt solutions to SQLMesh issues and having to be clearly instructed to use official docs and Context7 to give me proper commands to run..

On the other hand `sqlmesh plan` is still a really nice feature compared to dbt CI and I don't think dbt core really has an answer yet.

If you're comparing dbt core vs SQLMesh which one do you think is worth using on greenfield projects these days?