ClickHouse pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe ClickHouse pricing
Several data warehouses offer transparent, publicly available pricing, but MotherDuck, Google BigQuery, and ClickHouse Cloud stand out.
Compared to: BigQuery · Snowflake · Amazon Redshift
- ClickHouse Cloud: 30-day trial with $300 in credits.
- Aiven for ClickHouse: fixed, all-inclusive plans starting around $266/month, with no separate maintenance, networking, or storage fees.
Quick pricing summary
- Basic: $0.218 per compute unit / hr
- Scale: $0.299 per compute unit / hr
- Enterprise: $0.39 per compute unit / hr
- Worth noting: Prices are USD per compute unit per hour, metered per minute and scaled to zero when idle. Storage is billed at the same rate on every plan, varying only by cloud provider and region. Free trial is $300 in credits for 30 days. Enterprise and committed-spend pricing is available through sales.
Plans
Basic
$0.218 per compute unit / hr
- Up to 1 TB storage
- 8-12 GiB total memory
- Backups every 24h, retained for 1 day
- 1 availability zone
- Export backups to your own cloud account
- Expert support with 1 business day response time
- Single sign-on authentication (SSO) using Google or Microsoft
- Social login
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Scale
$0.299 per compute unit / hr
- Unlimited storage
- Configurable memory
- Compute-compute separation
- Backups every 24h, retained for 1 day
- 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
$0.39 per compute unit / hr
- Everything in Scale
- SAML Single sign-on authentication (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 migrations guides
- HIPAA and PCI compliance
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Basic | Scale | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage | Up to 1 TB | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Memory | 8-12 GiB total | Configurable | Configurable |
| Availability zones | 1 | 2+ | 2+ |
| Backups | Every 24h, 1-day retention | Configurable | Configurable |
| Support response time | 1 business day | 1 hour | 30 min for Severity 1 |
| Single sign-on (SSO) | ✓ | ✓ | yes (SAML) |
| Private networking | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compute-compute separation | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic vertical scaling | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Private regions | — | — | ✓ |
| Customer-managed encryption (CMEK) | — | — | ✓ |
| HIPAA and PCI compliance | — | — | ✓ |
| Scheduled upgrades | — | — | ✓ |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | $25.30 per 1TB / mo | All plans, billed on compressed size |
| Public internet egress | starting at $0.1152 / GB | Data transfer out to the public internet |
| Inter-region egress | starting at $0.0312 / GB | Data transfer between regions |
| ClickPipes | varies by connector type | Data ingestion, see ClickPipes pricing dimensions |
| Managed Postgres (Beta) | compute and storage from $0.125 per unit / hr | Managed Postgres service, available in beta on all three plans |
ClickHouse pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ClickHouse | $0.218 / mo | No · 30-day trial | Usage-based | — | |
| BigQuery | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Snowflake | Contact sales | No | Usage-based | Enterprises that run data engineering, analytics and AI on governed enterprise data, including large and highly regulated organizations | Compare → |
| Amazon Redshift | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Databricks | — | — | — | Data engineering, data science, analytics and AI teams at startups and global enterprises | Compare → |
List prices as published on clickhouse.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.