ClickHouse vs Tempo

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Tempo is the stronger AI pick in Observability: it has a visibility score of 7.1 versus 0.9 for ClickHouse, and ranks ahead in 50% of the answers that name both.

Choose ClickHouse if…

AI answers describe it more positively (58% vs 6% positive)
You need HIPAA or PCI coverage
fast real-time analytics
high-concurrency analytics performance

Choose Tempo if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (7.1 vs 0.9)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
You need SOC 2 or ISO/IEC 27001 or ISO 22301 or PCI DSS v4.0.1 or GDPR or FedRAMP High or TISAX or CSA STAR or TX-RAMP Level 2 coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (1,001–5,000 employees)

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	ClickHouse	Tempo
Visibility score	0.9%	7.1%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in Observability	#31	#12
Share of voice	0.3%	3.1%
Mentions this run	2	18
Positive in AI answers	58%	6%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

ClickHouse 0pp · Tempo 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Tempo leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

0.9%

AI Mode

1.7%

11.5%

Perplexity

1.9%

ClickHouseTempo

Head to head in AI answers

2 engine answers name both brands

1ClickHouse ranked higher

1Tempo ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	ClickHouse	Tempo
Alternatives to the most popular observability platform	ChatGPT	#14	#6
Is there a free observability platform for small teams?	AI Mode	#5	#9

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	ClickHouse	Tempo
Pricing model	Usage-based	—
Entry price	$0.218 / mo	—
Free plan	No · 30-day trial	—
Deployment	ClickHouse Cloud on AWS, GCP and Azure, self-managed open-source installs, and Bring Your Own Cloud within the customer's own VPC.	Managed as Grafana Cloud or self-hosted on Kubernetes via Helm
Integrations	100+	—
Compliance	HIPAA, PCI	SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 22301, PCI DSS v4.0.1, GDPR, FedRAMP High, TISAX, CSA STAR, TX-RAMP Level 2
Support	Expert support with 1 business day response time on Basic, Expert support with 1 hour response time on Scale, Enterprise support with 30 min response time for Severity 1 issues, Named Lead Support Engineer on Enterprise	—
Founded	2009	—
Headquarters	Palo Alto, CA, United States	New York, NY
Employees	501–1,000	1,001–5,000
Funding	Series D, led by Dragoneer	Series E · $1100M raised
Best for	Developers and data teams that need real-time queries on large datasets at an affordable cost, including teams adding a speed layer on top of an existing data warehouse or OLTP database.	—