# ClickHouse Cloud

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/data-warehouse/clickhouse-cloud/

Managed ClickHouse billed on how many hours a service is active, with compute, storage and egress itemised separately.

## Who it suits

Knowing what a part-time warehouse costs. The published example is explicit — $66.52 a month for a Basic service awake six hours a day against $186.27 awake around the clock — with compute, storage and egress itemised separately.

Consider something else if Data transfer matters. It is the only one here that puts public internet egress and cross-region transfer on the invoice as their own lines, so moving results out has a price the others absorb.

## iScore

87 / 100 (80% interval 83–92), rank 2 of 4 in data-warehouse — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every data-warehouse peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/data-warehouse/clickhouse-cloud/alternatives/

- Price: 82 (76–89), weight 71%, 3 of 3 criteria scored
- Evidence: 100 (100–100), weight 29%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://clickhouse.com/docs/products/cloud/reference/billing), read 2026-09-15)
- Kind of free offer: Free trial ([source](https://clickhouse.com/docs/products/cloud/reference/billing), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: Trial credits over a 30-day window, drawn down until they are depleted or the window closes, whichever comes first. Adding a card during the trial does not end it — the credits keep being consumed first. A time-boxed credit rather than a standing allowance, which is the opposite of BigQuery's tebibyte renewing every month. ([source](https://clickhouse.com/docs/products/cloud/reference/billing), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: From $66.52 a month for a Basic service active 6 hours a day — one replica with 8 GiB of RAM and 2 vCPUs, 500 GB of compressed data and 500 GB of backup. The same service active 24 hours a day is $186.27, so the entry price is a statement about usage as much as about capacity. ([source](https://clickhouse.com/docs/products/cloud/reference/billing), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Compute, storage and data transfer itemised separately, with compute varying by how many hours a day the service is active — $39.91, $79.83 or $159.66 in the published example for 6, 12 or 24 hours, against a flat $25.30 of storage. Scale, the always-on auto-scaling tier, starts at $499.38 a month. ([source](https://clickhouse.com/docs/products/cloud/reference/billing), read 2026-09-15)
- Egress over allowance: Itemised rather than absorbed: the published example carries $1.15 of public internet egress on 10 GB and $0.16 of cross-region transfer on 5 GB. The only member of this category that puts data transfer on the invoice as its own line. ([source](https://clickhouse.com/docs/products/cloud/reference/billing), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [ClickHouse Cloud vs Google BigQuery](https://inetgeek.com/compare/bigquery-vs-clickhouse-cloud/)
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