ClickHouse Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026
From free self-hosted open source to $0.20/hour for cloud compute, ClickHouse scales across 2 main deployment plans.
ClickHouse plans and pricing
Open Source
This free plan is ideal for users who prefer self-hosting and managing their own ClickHouse deployments
Basic
Testing / starter projects
Scale
Production + data at scale
Enterprise
Very large scale + enterprise
ClickHouse pricing: the quick answer
ClickHouse is free to self-host as open source, or run it managed in the cloud from $66.52 per month for Basic as of July 8, 2026. Above Basic, Scale runs $499.38/mo with unlimited storage and compute-compute separation, and Enterprise is custom-quoted for SAML SSO, private regions, and HIPAA and PCI. Managed storage bills at $25.30 per TB-month, and the plans do not cover data movement: public internet egress starts at $0.1152/GB and ClickPipes ingestion adds $0.04/GB plus $0.20/hr per compute unit. The engine is free; the cloud bill is a moving target tied to how much you scan and ship.
- Open SourceFree
- Basic$66.52/mo
- Scale$499.38/mo
- EnterpriseCustom
At $66.52/mo to start, ClickHouse sits 33% below the $99/mo median across 5 databases tools we track.
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ClickHouse Hidden Costs & Pitfalls
The Basic and Scale monthly figures cover compute and storage inside the plan. What lands on top is data movement, and for an analytics database that moves a lot of rows, it adds up.
ClickHouse pricing, read against its live plans and category
Positioning
ClickHouse gives you two honest starting points. Self-host the open-source engine for free and carry the operational load yourself, or run it managed: Basic at $66.52/mo (up to 1 TB, 8 to 12 GiB memory) and Scale at $499.38/mo (unlimited storage, compute-compute separation, multi-AZ). Enterprise is custom-quoted for SSO, private regions, and HIPAA and PCI. The plan sticker covers in-plan compute and storage, and storage itself is cheap at $25.30/TB-month because the columnar format compresses hard.
Cost drivers
- 1Egress is the surprise. Public internet egress starts at $0.1152/GB; inter-region is $0.0312/GB. For an analytics store that ships large result sets, egress can match the Basic plan fee on its own.
- 2ClickPipes ingestion adds $0.04/GB plus $0.20/hr per compute unit, with Postgres CDC pipes priced separately. A round-the-clock pipe is real monthly money before the per-GB fee.
- 3Private regions and BYOC are contact-sales only, so the published range does not apply to compliance-driven deployments.
Watch-outs
The learning curve is the cost multiplier. Poorly tuned queries burn compute, and the pay-as-you-go model means an unmonitored workload can run up a bill that a flat-rate database never would.
Strengths
- Scans billions of rows per second via vectorized execution
- Materialized views for real-time incremental aggregation
- High compression (LZ4, ZSTD) keeps the $25.30/TB storage line small
Editor’s take
Teams with heavy time-series or analytical workloads should run Scale for compute-compute separation; small teams and testers are better off on the free open-source build or Basic. Just watch egress and ingestion, because the $66.52 to $499.38 plan range is only the part of the bill that sits still. If you only need a standard relational database and want to skip analytical tuning, PostgreSQL is the simpler path.
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Sources & verification
| Source | What was checked | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Official Pricing Page | Source of verified tiers | July 8, 2026 |
| Official Website | Official vendor website | — |
| G2 | G2 verified user reviews · 4.5/5 · 23 reviews | — |
| TrustRadius | TrustRadius verified reviews | — |
| PeerSpot | PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews | — |
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