ClickHouse Cloud

DB 7.2/10

Basic: from $66.52/mo, up to 1 TB storage, 8-12 GiB memory; compute $0.22-0.39/compute-unit-hour, storage $25.30/TiB-month. First-party managed ClickHouse OLAP.

ClickHouse Cloud scores 7.2/10 for free value in DB. The main constraint: Paid — from $66.52/mo (Basic). Basic: from $66.52/mo, up to 1 TB storage, 8-12 GiB memory; compute $0.22-0.39/compute-unit-hour, storage $25.30/TiB-month. First-party managed ClickHouse OLAP.

Category DB Kind Paid plan

Free value score

7.2 / 10

Show the math

Overall 7.2/10

value = 7.2/100

weighted_components_v1

Capacity 6.3/10

value = 4.51 ×

fixed_log_v1

Operations 8.2/10

value = 8.2/100

policy_score_v1

Production fit 8/10

value = 8/100

policy_score_v1

Key metrics

1K GB Storage

1 reads/mo Reads policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly read allowance is published in this item.

1 writes/mo Writes policy_default: Conservative scoring fallback: no comparable monthly write allowance is published in this item.

$66.52/mo

1 TB

8-12 GiB

What you get

Paid — from $66.52/mo (Basic). Basic: from $66.52/mo, up to 1 TB storage, 8-12 GiB memory; compute $0.22-0.39/compute-unit-hour, storage $25.30/TiB-month. First-party managed ClickHouse OLAP.

$25.30/TiB storage is near-S3 pricing; cheapest at large analytical scale, not tiny apps — fastest open-source columnar OLAP, by its creators

Gotchas

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Sources

"Basic: from $66.52 per month. Best for: Departmental use cases with smaller data volumes"
https://clickhouse.com/docs/cloud/manage/billing/overview
"charging $0.22-0.39 per compute unit-hour and $25.30 per TB-month for storage."
https://www.tinybird.co/blog/self-hosted-clickhouse-cost

paid value databases

Open service Source ← All DB

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