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- Free allowance
- 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.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotathe 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...
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| 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 |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 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. source
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| 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 |
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| Egress | egress is billed per GB and varies by region (public internet USD 0.115 per GB in AWS us-east-1); ingress is not charged; no free egress allowance is published on the pricing page |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| 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. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| 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. |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 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' |
| 2026-11-04 | clickhouse.com/pricing | public internet egress in AWS us-east-1 is USD 0.115 per GB |
| 2026-11-04 | clickhouse.com/pricing | egress is billed per GB and varies by region; ingress is not charged |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "analytics-trial-credit","free_tier_kind": "trial-credit","shape": {"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 8,"disk_gib": null}} |
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Unknown values 5
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field