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ClickHouse Cloud Compute
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| Free tier | Pricing page, quoted: 'Start free with $300 in credits for 30 days' and, in the FAQ, 'ClickHouse Cloud starts with $300 in credits over 30 days, no credit card required. ClickHouse open source is free forever.' The page adds: 'The trial ends after 30 days or once the credits are consumed, whichever comes first; the account then converts to pay-as-you-go.' Trial credits expire at the end of the 30-day trial period, even after a payment method has been added. unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; trial-credit |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | not applicable |
| Egress | the 30-day clock ends the free window before the USD 300 does for an idle service, because compute scales to zero when the service is idle; a service left running continuously for the 30 days is about 732 compute-unit-hours and the USD 300 has to cover those plus storage, backups and egress. |
| Identity | email the pricing FAQ states no credit card is required; the signup console is JavaScript-only and was not exercised, so the gate is the vendor's sentence and not a completed signup |
| Limits |
the 30-day clock ends the free window before the USD 300 does for an idle service, because compute scales to zero when the service is idle; a service left running continuously for the 30 days is about 732 compute-unit-hours and the USD 300 has to cover those plus storage, backups and egress. |
| Binding | volume-quota the 30-day clock ends the free window before the USD 300 does for an idle service, because compute scales to zero when the service is idle; a service left running continuously for the 30 days is about 732 compute-unit-hours and the USD 300 has to cover those plus storage, backups and egress. |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | USD 300 of ClickHouse time is the cheapest route to scanning a multi-hundred-gigabyte corpus once; the same query then re-runs on the free open-source binary on rented compute, because the SQL is identical. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | Compute scales to zero when idle, which stretches the credit if the service is not left running. Single-replica services are limited to 8 to 12 GiB of memory. Compute is billed per compute-unit-hour at a region-specific rate where 1 compute unit is 8 GiB RAM and 2 vCPU, and the page lists a separate rate per instance family, so no single per-hour figure is quoted here. No probe was run. |
| Evidence rung | documented |
| Checked | 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23 |
Evidence (4)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | clickhouse.com/pricing | 'Start free with $300 in credits for 30 days' and 'The trial ends after 30 days or once the credits are consumed, whichever comes first; the account then converts to pay-as-you-go', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | clickhouse.com/pricing | FAQ: 'ClickHouse Cloud starts with $300 in credits over 30 days, no credit card required. ClickHouse open source is free forever.', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | clickhouse.com/pricing | Basic plan includes 'Up to 1 TB storage', '8-12 GiB total memory', '1 availability zone', backups every 24h retained for 1 day |
| 2026-10-23 | clickhouse.com/docs/cloud/manage/billing | 'Trial credits expire at the end of the 30-day trial period, even after a payment method has been added.', quoted; the pricing page states 'Start free with $300 in credits for 30 days' |
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