Pricing

ClickHouse Cloud prepaid credits (whether direct through ClickHouse, or via a cloud provider's marketplace)
can only be leveraged for the terms of the contract.
This means they can be applied on the acceptance date, or a future date, and not for any prior periods.
Any overages not covered by prepaid credits must be covered by a credit card payment or marketplace monthly billing.

### Is there a difference in ClickHouse Cloud pricing, whether paying through the cloud provider marketplace or directly to ClickHouse?[​](#is-there-a-difference-in-clickhouse-cloud-pricing-whether-paying-through-the-cloud-provider-marketplace-or-directly-to-clickhouse "Direct link to Is there a difference in ClickHouse Cloud pricing, whether paying through the cloud provider marketplace or directly to ClickHouse?")

There is no difference in pricing between marketplace billing and signing up directly with ClickHouse.
In either case, your usage of ClickHouse Cloud is tracked in terms of ClickHouse Cloud Credits (CHCs),
which are metered in the same way and billed accordingly.

### How is compute-compute separation billed?[​](#how-is-compute-compute-separation-billed "Direct link to How is compute-compute separation billed?")

When creating a service in addition to an existing service,
you can choose if this new service should share the same data with the existing one.
If yes, these two services now form a [warehouse](/docs/cloud/reference/warehouses).
A warehouse has the data stored in it with multiple compute services accessing this data.

As the data is stored only once, you only pay for one copy of data, though multiple services are accessing it.
You pay for compute as usual — there are no additional fees for compute-compute separation / warehouses.
By leveraging shared storage in this deployment, users benefit from cost savings on both storage and backups.

Compute-compute separation can save you a significant amount of ClickHouse Credits in some cases.
A good example is the following setup:

1. You have ETL jobs that are running 24/7 and ingesting data into the service. These ETL jobs don't require a lot of memory so they can run on a small instance with, for example, 32 GiB of RAM.
2. A data scientist on the same team that has ad hoc reporting requirements, says they need to run a query that requires a significant amount of memory - 236 GiB, however doesn't need high availability and can wait and rerun queries if the first run fails.

In this example you, as an administrator for the database, can do the following:

1. Create a small service with two replicas 16 GiB each - this will satisfy the ETL jobs and provide high availability.
2. For the data scientist, you can create a second service in the same warehouse with only one replica with 236 GiB. You can enable idling for this service so you won't be paying for this service when the data scientist isn't using it.

Cost estimation (per month) for this example on the **Scale Tier**:

- Parent service active 24 hours day: 2 replicas x 16 GiB 4 vCPU per replica
- Child service: 1 replica x 236 GiB 59 vCPU per replica per replica
- 3 TB of compressed data + 1 backup
- 100 GB of public internet egress data transfer
- 50 GB of cross-region data transfer

|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Child service active 1 hour/day Child service active 2 hours/day Child service active 4 hours/day|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Compute $1,142.43 $1,410.97 $1,948.05|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Storage $151.80 $151.80 $151.80|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Public internet egress data transfer $11.52 $11.52 $11.52|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cross-region data transfer $1.56 $1.56 $1.56|  |  |  |  | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Total $1,307.31 $1,575.85 $2,112.93 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Without warehouses, you would have to pay for the amount of memory that the data engineer needs for his queries.
However, combining two services in a warehouse and idling one of them helps you save money.

## ClickPipes pricing[​](#clickpipes-pricing "Direct link to ClickPipes pricing")

For information on ClickPipes billing, please see the dedicated ["ClickPipes billing" section](/docs/cloud/reference/billing/clickpipes).

- [Amazon Web Services (AWS) example](#amazon-web-services-aws-example)
  - [Basic: from $66.52 per month](#basic-from-6652-per-month)- [Scale (always-on, auto-scaling): from $499.38 per month](#scale-always-on-auto-scaling-from-49938-per-month)- [Enterprise: Starting prices vary](#enterprise-starting-prices-vary)- [Frequently asked questions](#faqs)
    - [What is a ClickHouse Credit (CHC)?](#what-is-chc)- [Where can I find legacy pricing?](#find-legacy-pricing)- [How is compute metered?](#how-is-compute-metered)- [How is storage on disk calculated?](#how-is-storage-on-disk-calculated)- [Do backups count toward total storage?](#do-backups-count-toward-total-storage)- [How do I estimate compression?](#how-do-i-estimate-compression)- [What tools does ClickHouse offer to estimate the cost of running a service in the cloud if I have a self-managed deployment?](#what-tools-does-clickhouse-offer-to-estimate-the-cost-of-running-a-service-in-the-cloud-if-i-have-a-self-managed-deployment)- [What billing options are available for ClickHouse Cloud?](#what-billing-options-are-available-for-clickhouse-cloud)- [Can I delete my credit card?](#can-i-delete-my-credit-card)- [How long is the billing cycle?](#how-long-is-the-billing-cycle)- [If I have an active PAYG marketplace subscription and then sign a committed contract, will my committed credits be consumed first?](#committed-credits-consumed-first-with-active-payg-subscription)- [What controls does ClickHouse Cloud offer to manage costs for Scale and Enterprise services?](#what-controls-does-clickhouse-cloud-offer-to-manage-costs-for-scale-and-enterprise-services)- [What controls does ClickHouse Cloud offer to manage costs for Basic services?](#what-controls-does-clickhouse-cloud-offer-to-manage-costs-for-basic-services)- [If I have multiple services, do I get an invoice per service or a consolidated invoice?](#if-i-have-multiple-services-do-i-get-an-invoice-per-service-or-a-consolidated-invoice)- [If I add my credit card and upgrade before my trial period and credits expire, will I be charged?](#if-i-add-my-credit-card-and-upgrade-before-my-trial-period-and-credits-expire-will-i-be-charged)- [How can I keep track of my spending?](#how-can-i-keep-track-of-my-spending)- [How do I access my invoices for my subscription to the ClickHouse Cloud service?](#how-do-i-access-my-invoice-for-my-subscription-to-the-clickhouse-cloud-service)- [Why do the dates on the Usage statements not match my Marketplace Invoice?](#why-do-the-dates-on-the-usage-statements-not-match-my-marketplace-invoice)- [Are there any restrictions around the usage of prepaid credits?](#are-there-any-restrictions-around-the-usage-of-prepaid-credits)- [Is there a difference in ClickHouse Cloud pricing, whether paying through the cloud provider marketplace or directly to ClickHouse?](#is-there-a-difference-in-clickhouse-cloud-pricing-whether-paying-through-the-cloud-provider-marketplace-or-directly-to-clickhouse)- [How is compute-compute separation billed?](#how-is-compute-compute-separation-billed)- [ClickPipes pricing](#clickpipes-pricing)

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