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ClickHouse

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What is ClickHouse?

Fast open-source OLAP database for real-time analytics, powering agentic systems with millisecond queries at petabyte scale.

Independently observed

ClickHouse pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $0.22/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

From $25.30/TB/mo + $0.2181/compute unit/hr. 30-day free trial.

Basic

$25.30/TB/mo + $0.2181/compute unit/hr
monthly

Great for testing out new ideas or starter projects. Limited storage and memory.

memory
8-12 GiB
storage
1 TB
backup_retention
1 day
availability_zones
1
  • Up to 1 TB storage
  • 8-12 GiB total memory
  • Backups every 24h, retained for 1 day
  • 1 availability zone
  • Export backups to own cloud account
  • Expert support with 1 business day response time
  • SSO (Google/Microsoft)
  • Social login
  • MFA

Scale

$25.30/TB/mo + $0.2985/compute unit/hr
monthly

For production environments, data at scale, or professional use cases.

memory
Configurable
storage
Unlimited
backup_retention
1 day
availability_zones
2+
  • Unlimited storage
  • Configurable memory
  • Compute-compute separation
  • Configurable backups
  • 2+ availability zones
  • Expert support with 1 hour response time, 24x7 for Severity 1 issues
  • S3 role-based access
  • Private networking
  • Automatic vertical scaling
  • Manual horizontal scaling

Enterprise

$25.30/TB/mo + $0.3903/compute unit/hr
monthly

For production environments, very large data at scale, or enterprise use cases.

  • Everything in Scale plan
  • SAML SSO
  • Private regions
  • Manual vertical scaling for custom profiles
  • Enterprise support with 30 min response time for Severity 1 issues
  • Named Lead Support Engineer
  • Transparent data encryption / CMEK
  • Scheduled upgrades
  • Consultative migration guides
  • HIPAA compliance
  • PCI compliance

Add-ons

  • Data transfer – public internet egress$0.12 per GB
  • Data transfer – inter-region egress$0.03 per GB
  • ClickPipes data ingestion$0.04 per GB + $0.20 per compute_unit

What ClickHouse does

The capabilities that matter for time-series databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Query
Query language (SQL / PromQL / InfluxQL-Flux / Graphite)
SQL
SQL compatibility
Full SQL
Ingest
Ingest model
Both
Model
Data model
Both
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
-
Retention / TTL
Manual
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
-
Performance
High-cardinality handling
Strong
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
Distributed / sharded
Replication / HA
✓
Deployment
Deployment
Self-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
-
Licensing
Licence class
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (4)

Independently observed
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • ClickPipes

ClickHouse alternatives

Other time-series databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for ClickHouse, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 52 / 100
low · 39%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Github Activity6320.001262.0✓
Pricing Transparency1008.00800.0✓
Github Stars897.00619.3✓
Security Posture3018.00540.0✓
Reliability5010.00500.0✓
Capabilities2917.00491.4✓
Price Level806.00480.0✓
Integrations208.00160.8✓
Release Cadence012.000.0-
Package Downloads06.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity020.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d100mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars48,981highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"clustering":"distributed","data_model":"both","deployment":"self_hosted","ingest_model":"both","retention_ttl":"manual","query_language":"SQL","replication_ha":true,"high_cardinality":"strong","sql_compatibility":"full_sql"}mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count4mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryC++highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxApache-2.0highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Modelcommerciallowsource · 2026-08-01 · 48%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Starting gbp0.218mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
HipaaYeshighsource · 2026-08-01 · 75%
PciYeshighsource · 2026-08-01 · 75%