Usage-based USD rates for AWS N. Virginia, not fixed monthly subscriptions. Standard CU: 8 GiB RAM and 2 vCPUs. Storage, backups, ClickPipes and egress add charges. Cloud trial offers $300 credit for up to 30 days.
ClickHouse pricing in 2026
Open source: $0 software; Cloud Basic $0.2181/CU-hour in AWS us-east-1, plus other usage
Open source
$0 software license; infrastructure and operations extra
- Self-hosted analytical database
Basic
$0.2181 per CU-hour
- AWS us-east-1 list compute rate
- Fixed single-replica 8 or 12 GiB service; 1 TB storage cap
Scale
$0.2985 per CU-hour
- AWS us-east-1 list compute rate
- Scaling, private networking and workload separation
Enterprise
$0.3903 per CU-hour
- AWS us-east-1 list compute rate
- SAML SSO, customer-managed keys and scheduled upgrades
Every figure on this page was read from ClickHouse’s own pricing page on 5 Oct 2026. Prices change without notice, so confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
Questions people ask
Is ClickHouse free?
The open-source database is free to download. Self-hosting still costs infrastructure and staff time. ClickHouse Cloud is usage-billed after its limited trial, so do not budget as though it has a permanent free service tier.
Can ClickHouse replace PostgreSQL?
It can take over analytical queries, but I would generally keep PostgreSQL for transactional application data. Multi-statement transactions in the core ClickHouse engine remain experimental. CDC lets the two systems serve different jobs.
Does ClickHouse support updates and deletes?
Yes. Avoid choosing or rejecting it on the outdated assumption that data cannot change. Evaluate the update strategy and downstream materialized views, because changes can add processing work and require deliberate correction logic.
Do I need SQL to use ClickHouse?
SQL skills are valuable even with ClickHouse Assistant. Natural-language help can generate queries, but you still need to judge whether the joins, filters, and calculations answer the right question.
Is ClickHouse cheaper than Snowflake or BigQuery?
It depends on utilization and workload. Compare total compute, storage, ingestion, and operational costs under equivalent requirements. My public-demo query timings do not establish a price advantage over either warehouse.