We estimate a 30% price increase for a typical production workload. This article explains the complex pricing change announced on January 27, 2025, and provides a practical guide to what's changing.

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ClickHouse Cloud announced a pricing change on January 27, 2025, estimated to result in a ~30% increase for typical production workloads. Key changes include new egress fees ($115.20/TiB), revised storage pricing (snapshots now excluded), and new charges for ClickPipes ETL. Existing customers have a six-month grandfathering period until July 23, 2025. The post breaks down the economics behind the changes, offers optimization strategies (primary key selection, materialized views, autoscaling batching, TTL), and reviews alternatives including Altinity.Cloud, Hydrolix, BetterStack, TinyBird, ByConity, and self-hosted ClickHouse.

ClickHouse Cloud Pricing Change in January 2025: A Price Hike with Many Tweaks