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ClickHouse Managed Postgres Pricing: $23/mo, for Now

Dr. Somya Hallan · Aug 26, 2026 · 27 min read
ClickHouse Managed Postgres Pricing: $23/mo, for Now

Verified on August, 2026

ClickHouse Managed Postgres costs $23.19 a month in ap-south-1 (Mumbai). Without the beta discount that same machine is $46.38, and three of the four lines on the bill have not been switched on yet.

Key Facts

  • The price is $23.19/mo in ap-south-1 for 1 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and 59 GB NVMe, or $35.74/mo for the same configuration in us-east-1. Both include the 50% beta discount.
  • Three of the four bill lines are switched off. Ingestion, backups, and data transfer are all free in beta. Only the machine is metered, and it is half price.
  • The same vendor prices the same region in opposite directions. Managed Postgres is 35% cheaper in ap-south-1, while its analytics engine is 8% more expensive there and egress is 20% more expensive. No region is cheap for both.
  • Loading your data has a price. ClickPipes Postgres CDC bills $0.10/GB for the initial load and $0.20/GB for continuous replication, so migrating a 500 GB Postgres database costs about $50 (₹4,786).
  • There is no volume discount. Pricing is linear in both regions, so 64 vCPU costs exactly 64 times as much as 1 vCPU.
  • Basic caps at 8 GB of RAM. The tier applies to your entire ClickHouse Cloud organization, so outgrowing it raises the organization floor from $66.52/mo to $499.38/mo.

Most teams arrive at ClickHouse Managed Postgres pricing the same way. Postgres runs the application, ClickHouse runs the analytics, something copies rows between them at three in the morning, and ClickHouse has now offered to run all three.

The prices above are the ones their calculator returns today. What follows is the rate card behind them, because ClickHouse publishes no per-configuration prices anywhere in text and sends every visitor to a calculator instead.

How we priced this. Every ClickHouse figure is either quoted from their own documentation or read from their pricing calculator, with the region and configuration named. Where we model a cost that applies after general availability, we apply a rate ClickHouse already publishes and say so.

Selfhost.dev sells managed Postgres and managed ClickHouse, so we have a stake in this comparison. That is exactly why the assumptions are on the page. Check the arithmetic rather than trusting us.

What is ClickHouse Managed Postgres?

 ClickHouse Managed Postgres is a hosted PostgreSQL service sold by ClickHouse, built to sit beside their analytics engine rather than replace it. It runs on NVMe-backed machines, replicates into ClickHouse through ClickPipes CDC, and ships the pg_clickhouse extension for querying both engines over one connection. It has been in public beta since 27 May 2026.

ClickHouse Managed Postgres at a Glance
What it is Managed PostgreSQL on NVMe-backed VMs, inside a ClickHouse Cloud organisation
Replication into ClickHouse Native, via ClickPipes Postgres CDC
Cross-engine queries pg_clickhouse, a Postgres extension
Status Public beta since 27 May 2026, metered from 15 June 2026
Tiers Basic, Scale, Enterprise

The reason it needs its own pricing article, separate from ClickHouse Cloud’s, is that the two halves are billed on unrelated models. This one charges for a machine. The analytics side charges per compute unit-hour.

How much does ClickHouse Managed Postgres cost?

The entry configuration costs $23.19 a month in ap-south-1 region and $35.74 in us-east-1. Both include the 50% beta discount. ClickHouse prices Managed Postgres per whole machine, not per resource: “pricing is based on the full VM configuration, CPU, memory, and storage, rather than separate compute and disk charges.” That, and every other quote in this article, comes from their Managed Postgres pricing documentation.

vCPU RAM Storage Mumbai (ap-south-1) us-east-1
1 8 GB 59 GB $23.19 $35.74
2 16 GB 118 GB $46.38 $71.48
4 32 GB 237 GB $92.75 $142.96
8 64 GB 474 GB $185.51 $285.93
16 128 GB 950 GB $371.02 $571.85
64 512 GB 3,800 GB $1,484.06 $2,287.41
Monthly, including the 50% beta discount. Priced in ClickHouse’s calculator: AWS, memory-optimized, ARM, no standby replicas.

The ratio between the two regions is identical from 1 vCPU to 64.

ClickHouse offers “over 50 configurations” up to 96 vCPUs, 768 GB of RAM and 60 TB of NVMe. None of those prices appear in text on their site, which is why the table above exists.

One number worth flagging: their own beta announcement puts the entry configuration at “approximately $32/month.” We could not reproduce that in either region. Price your own region rather than the announcement.

Managed Postgres and ClickHouse Cloud are billed on different models. This charges for a machine; the analytics side charges per compute unit-hour, and what the analytics half costs running around the clock is a separate calculation.

ClickHouse does not print a per-configuration rate card, so you cannot check any of this against your own workload on their site. Ours is public. See the whole bill, not the headline price, no signup needed.

Does ClickHouse Managed Postgres get cheaper at scale?

No. Pricing scales linearly. Every configuration costs the same per unit of capacity.

One unit is 1 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 59 GB of NVMe: $23.19 a month in ap-south-1, $35.74 in us-east-1. Every rung is a multiple of it. Sixty-four units should cost $1,484.16, and the calculator returns $1,484.06, a ten-cent gap that is rounding rather than a discount.

A bigger machine buys more capacity at the same rate, never a better one.

Two caveats. The pattern holds within a hardware family, so the 64 vCPU box with 256 GB of RAM sits on a different vCPU-to-memory ratio and breaks the multiple. And it describes calculator prices, not a negotiated contract.

What do the Basic and Scale tiers cost?

The tier is not a Postgres plan. It is your whole ClickHouse Cloud organization’s tier, and it caps what you are allowed to buy. Basic stops at 8 GB of RAM and 118 GB of storage, which covers only the bottom of the rate card. ClickHouse publishes no per-tier price for an identical machine.

Feature Basic Scale
Compute ceiling Up to 8 GB RAM Up to 96 vCPU and 768 GB RAM
Storage ceiling Up to 118 GB local NVMe Up to 60 TB
Share of the 50+ configurations Only those at or below the ceiling All of them
Backup retention 1 day 7 days
ClickPipes CDC compute $0.10/hr 0.5 CU (1 vCPU, 4 GB) per service $0.20/hr 1 CU (2 vCPU, 8 GB) per service
Same rate per CU-hour $0.20 $0.20
Machine price for an identical configuration Not published ClickHouse states pricing varies by organization tier Not published
ClickHouse Cloud organization starts from $66.52/mo $499.38/mo

Enterprise is the third tier. It inherits Scale’s limits with enhanced support and has no published price.

That reframes the entry price. The $23.19 configuration sits inside Basic, and Basic has almost no headroom above it. Of the fifty-plus configurations ClickHouse offers, only the handful at or below 8 GB of RAM and 118 GB of storage are available on it.

So the ninth gigabyte of RAM is not a database decision. It is an organization decision. Moving the organization to Scale to buy a 16 GB Postgres also moves the analytics half of the stack, where the floor rises from $66.52 a month to $499.38.

One caveat, because it matters: that figure is the starting price of a Scale ClickHouse service, not a documented fee for holding a Scale organization. It lands on teams running both engines, which is this product’s entire audience.

The CDC compute line deserves a correction to how it is usually reported. Scale bills $0.20 an hour against Basic’s $0.10, but it also gives you twice the pipe, 1 CU against 0.5 CU. Per CU-hour both tiers charge the same $0.20. The tier changes the size of the smallest pipe you can buy, not the rate.

What is not knowable from their documentation is whether the same box costs more on Scale than on Basic. ClickHouse says pricing varies by tier and prints no comparison. If your organization is already on Scale, price your configuration with that tier selected rather than trusting the figures above.

What is free only during the beta, and what changes at GA?

ClickHouse Managed Postgres pricing, beta versus GA: storage and compute at $23.19, with ingestion, backups and data transfer unmetered.

Three of the four lines on a Managed Postgres bill are currently set to zero. ClickHouse’s calculator splits it into storage and compute, data ingestion via ClickPipes, backups, and data transfer. The first carries a 50% discount badge. The other three are marked “Free in Beta.”

Line item Today At general availability
Storage and compute 50% beta discount applied Discount ends
Data ingestion (ClickPipes) Free in Beta Not stated
Backups Free in Beta “Additional backup charges may apply at GA for retention periods beyond a limit that is still being defined”
Data transfer Free in Beta “Network egress pricing will be introduced after GA”

Those quotes are ClickHouse’s own words. The discount is documented in the same place: “All plans currently include 50% Beta pricing.” The service was free outright until metering began on 15 June 2026.

Those three rows are not expandable in the calculator, so it will not tell you what any of them will cost. What it tells you is that the rows are built.

Removing a 50% discount doubles a price:

Region Today With the discount removed
Mumbai $23.19 $46.38
us-east-1 $35.74 $71.48
Entry configuration, 1 vCPU / 8 GB RAM / 59 GB NVMe. The right column is arithmetic based on ClickHouse’s published 50% beta discount, not a price ClickHouse has announced.

That second column is arithmetic on ClickHouse’s own discount, not a price they have announced. ClickHouse has not published a post-GA rate card for Managed Postgres, so nobody can tell you what it will cost, including us.

Everywhere this article models a post-GA cost, it applies a rate ClickHouse already publishes elsewhere and names it. For egress, the nearest reference is their analytics product, documented at $0.1152/GB for AWS US and priced at $0.1384/GB in ap-south-1.

Three of those four rows are meters, and two bill per gigabyte. That matters more than the discount does. A fixed monthly machine price is something you can forecast a year out. A per-gigabyte charge is something you discover, because it moves with how much data your users pull and how much your tables change, and neither is a number most teams predict accurately a month ahead.

Right now all three meters read zero, so the bill looks perfectly stable.

That stability is a property of the beta, not of the pricing model. When the meters switch on, the predictable part of the bill stays the same size and the unpredictable part grows from nothing.

The gap between a quiet month and a busy one is what we call bill variance, and on this product it is currently impossible to calculate.

Three meters with no published rate is not something you can budget around. Ours are all published, and in the console you can watch them tick against the estimate. Open our console and see the meter agree with the number. No commitment, billed by the hour.

How much does ClickPipes Postgres CDC cost?

CDC is included at no extra cost on Managed Postgres during the beta. It is not free anywhere else. ClickPipes Postgres CDC is a generally available product with a published rate card.

Line Rate
Initial load and resync $0.10 / GB
Continuous replication $0.20 / GB
Compute, Basic tier $0.10 / hour 0.5 compute units (1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) per service
Compute, Scale tier $0.20 / hour 1 compute unit (2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM) per service
Streaming ingestion, for comparison $0.04 / GB Kafka, Kinesis and object storage pipes
ClickPipes rates from ClickHouse’s billing documentation. Compute bills at $0.20 per unit per hour on both tiers. The tier changes the size of the smallest pipe, not the rate.

Continuous replication costs five times what streaming ingestion costs. ClickHouse charges $0.04 per GB for a Kafka or object-storage pipe and $0.20 per GB for Postgres CDC. Managed Postgres uses the CDC flavour.

Loading your existing database in is itself a charge. A 500 GB Postgres moved across, then 100 GB a month of changes kept in sync:

Line Calculation Cost
Initial load, 500 GB 500 × $0.10/GB $50.00 one-off
Continuous replication, 100 GB per month 100 × $0.20/GB $20.00 per month
First month, data charges only $50.00 + $20.00 $70.00
Compute is excluded. ClickHouse publishes an hourly rate per service but does not state whether it accrues while a pipe is idle.

Compute is excluded because ClickHouse publishes the hourly rate per service but does not state whether it accrues while a pipe is idle, and inventing a number there is the kind of guess this article avoids.

One detail from their documentation that nobody appears to have noticed: ClickHouse lists MySQL and MongoDB CDC as free during their public betas, and Postgres CDC as generally available with standard billing. The connector this product depends on is the one that already has a meter on it. Whether Managed Postgres CDC bills at these rates after the beta is not something ClickHouse has said. These are the rates every other customer pays today.

Which makes this the least forecastable line in the bill. Your CDC cost tracks how much your data changes, and change rate is the one number almost nobody predicts a month ahead. If you would rather not have a meter on it, there are other ways to move data from Postgres into ClickHouse.

What limits change your ClickHouse Managed Postgres bill?

Four constraints move the bill more than the headline price does: how small you can go, how long backups are kept, whether storage can be sized on its own, and where you deploy.

What is the cheapest ClickHouse Managed Postgres configuration?

$23.19 a month in ap-south-1, for 1 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 59 GB of NVMe on the memory-optimized profile. Nothing in the list goes below 4 GB of RAM, and nothing in it is free. The smallest-memory option is not the cheapest. CPU-optimized at 2 vCPU and 4 GB costs $30.40, so halving the RAM and doubling the vCPU costs 31% more.

How long does ClickHouse Managed Postgres keep backups?

One day on Basic, seven on Scale, per their documentation: “Backups with retention of 1 day” and “Backups with retention of 7 days.” One day of retention means a problem you notice on Wednesday cannot be recovered from Monday. Whether longer retention is purchasable on Basic or requires the tier move is not documented, so we will not claim it either way.

Can you size storage independently of compute?

No. Storage is fixed to each configuration, which follows from pricing the whole machine rather than its parts. Wanting 468 GB means taking the storage-optimized 2 vCPU, 16 GB box at $120.82, whether or not you need the CPU. That falls hardest on the workload this product targets. A Postgres feeding an analytics pipeline usually needs far more disk than CPU, and here you cannot buy one without the other.

Do hardware profiles and region change the price?

Both do, and the profiles are not price tiers. They are resource bundles, so the same vCPU count lands in three different places. At 2 vCPU in Mumbai:

  • Memory-optimized: $46.38
  • Storage-optimized: $120.82
  • CPU-optimized: cheapest of the three, priced above

X86-64 is unavailable on CPU-optimized, which is ARM only.

Region is the blunter lever. ap-south-1 is 35% cheaper than us-east-1 at every configuration size, which for most of this ladder is a larger saving than any sizing decision you will make.

Where does the money in a ClickHouse Managed Postgres bill actually go?

ClickHouse Managed Postgres pricing is 35% cheaper in Mumbai, while ClickHouse Cloud analytics is 8% dearer and egress 20% dearer there.

Not mostly into the Postgres. This product exists to sit beside an analytics engine, so the honest unit of comparison is the pair. On the pair, the Postgres line is the smaller share of the bill. It is also the only share carrying a discount.

The Postgres half is 50% off during the beta. The analytics half is not discounted at all. The two also move in opposite directions by region.

Item Mumbai against us-east-1
Managed Postgres 35% cheaper at every configuration size
ClickHouse Cloud analytics compute 8% dearer
Public internet egress 20% dearer $0.1152/GB in AWS US against $0.1384/GB in Mumbai
No single region is cheap for both halves of the stack. Verified against ClickHouse’s pricing pages and calculator, 20 August 2026.

So there is no region that is cheap for both halves of this stack. Deploying in ap-south-1 saves 35% on the transactional side, costs more on the analytics side, and costs more again on every gigabyte leaving the region.

The larger half deserves its own arithmetic rather than a paragraph here, and it already has one: what the analytics half costs running around the clock, including the difference between an always-on service and the active-hours figure a calculator presents on load.

If you are budgeting for both engines, the Postgres number is the smaller half of the problem. See which half of the bill you have not priced yet.

When should you choose ClickHouse Managed Postgres, and when should you not?

Choose it when the analytics integration is the point. Look elsewhere when the bill needs to be forecastable, when you need to go smaller than 4 GB, or when the database has to live in your own cloud account.

Choose ClickHouse Managed Postgres if Look elsewhere if
You are already on ClickHouse Cloud and analytics is the centre of gravity. You need less than 4 GB of RAM.
You want CDC you do not have to build, run, or monitor. You need real backup retention on the cheapest tier.
You would genuinely use cross-engine querying from Postgres. You need the database inside your own AWS account.
The next twelve months matter more than month thirteen. You need a bill you can forecast past general availability.

The last row on the left is not a joke. Half price is half price, and if runway is what you are optimising, a beta discount is a real advantage.

Two strengths deserve stating plainly. CDC and pg_clickhouse are included at no extra cost during the beta, which is the single best reason to buy this product. And pg_clickhouse is not a token integration.

ClickHouse reports it as “the fastest PostgreSQL extension, outperforming all other Postgres analytics extensions” on ClickBench, running near-native ClickHouse speeds across all 42 queries. Worth noting, ClickBench is ClickHouse’s own benchmark. Not everything pushes down, though. The team puts full TPC-H pushdown at fourteen of twenty-two queries.

Alternative Best for Trade-off
Selfhost.dev Both engines on fixed per-instance pricing, in your own AWS account if you want. No managed CDC and no pg_clickhouse, so cross-engine work is yours to wire.
Neon Branching and serverless workflows on Postgres. Storage priced well above block storage, and no analytics engine beside it. See what serverless Postgres costs in production.
AWS RDS Deep AWS investment and compliance requirements. A managed markup on every instance, and no analytics engine.
Layerbase Small workloads on a flat monthly price. Hobby to small scale, no configuration matching ClickHouse’s ladder, and no managed CDC.

For the wider market rather than these four, we keep a running comparison of how managed Postgres prices at every size.

One number per provider, rather than a model: nine Neon alternatives priced on one database, 2 vCPU and 8 GB with 100 GB of storage, from $79 to $195 a month. Every rate behind those totals is published.

How does Selfhost.dev price managed Postgres differently?

The same 1 vCPU and 8 GB configuration with 60 GB of storage runs $46.81 a month in ap-south-1 and $61.46 in us-east-1, plus about $5 for the public IPv4 added at deploy. Billed hourly against prepaid credits, with no tiers.

ClickHouse Managed Postgres Selfhost.dev
What the machine costs $46.38/mo at GA Modelled from today’s price. $46.38 is today’s $23.19 with the 50% beta discount removed. Mumbai, 1 vCPU / 8 GB. $46.81/mo, measured Mumbai, same spec.
What egress costs $0 today No rate published for GA. $0.15/GB, published
What backups cost $0 today “Charges may apply at GA” $0.05/GB per month, published
Can you size storage on its own? No, bundled to the machine. Yes, from 1 GB.
What storage you get Local NVMe, faster. Network gp3, separately sized.
When credit runs out Metered account. Resources pause, restart on top-up.
What comes with Postgres Native CDC, pg_clickhouse. pgvector, TimescaleDB, 161 MCP tools.
Can you calculate next month’s bill today? Not fully Three rates are unpublished. Yes Every rate is published.

We are not claiming a flat bill. We meter egress and backup storage too. The difference is not that our bill has no variable component. Ours is public. That is the entire difference: you can multiply our rates by your own traffic this afternoon, and theirs are switched off with no published number behind them.

Storage being sized on its own matters for the workload this category serves. A Postgres feeding an analytics pipeline is data-heavy and compute-light, and here you can buy the disk without the CPU to go with it. If the database must stay inside your own cloud account for residency reasons, that runs as a managed database in your own AWS account.

Where they are the better buy, plainly.Their CDC is managed and currently free, and ours is assembled from the standard ways to move Postgres data into ClickHouse. They have pg_clickhouse, and we have no equivalent. Their local NVMe is faster than our gp3. And on the smallest ap-south-1 configuration they are cheaper than us even after the beta ends, $46.38 against $46.81. If a small Postgres is all you need and you want the pipeline handled, buy theirs.

You should not have to deploy something to find out what it costs. Deploy a Postgres you already know the price of, billed by the hour, so if it turns out to be the wrong box, an hour is all you have paid for.

What should you budget for ClickHouse Managed Postgres?

Budget for roughly twice what the calculator shows today, then for three meters currently reading zero.

Choose it if you are already on ClickHouse Cloud, if managed CDC is worth real money, and if the next twelve months matter more than month thirteen. On those terms it is a good product at a genuinely low price.

Choose something else if you need less than 4 GB of RAM, if one day of backup retention is not enough, if the database has to live in your own cloud account, or if you need a number you can defend in a budget meeting after general availability.

The honest summary of ClickHouse Managed Postgres pricing is that the figure on the page is a beta price on the smaller half of a two-part bill. The larger half is not discounted, it moves the other way by region, and it is knowable. Price both halves before committing to either.

The reason teams stay on a bill they cannot forecast is that switching sounds like a project. It does not have to be yours. Send us what you run and get your numbers back, line by line. A Selfhost.dev engineer does the mapping, free, whether or not you switch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ClickHouse Managed Postgres free?

No. The service was free until usage metering began on 15 June 2026. All plans now carry a 50% beta discount, which puts the entry configuration of 1 vCPU, 8 GB RAM and 59 GB NVMe at $23.19 a month in ap-south-1 and $35.74 in us-east-1. Nothing in the configuration list is free.

Will ClickHouse Managed Postgres get more expensive?

Yes, in three ways ClickHouse documents. The 50% beta discount ends, “network egress pricing will be introduced after GA,” and “additional backup charges may apply at GA.” Removing the discount alone doubles the entry configuration. ClickHouse has not published a post-GA rate card, so the exact total is not yet knowable.

Does ClickHouse Managed Postgres charge for egress?

Not during the beta. ClickHouse’s documentation states that “network egress pricing will be introduced after GA” without naming a rate. The nearest published reference is their analytics product, where public internet egress is documented at $0.1152/GB for AWS US and priced at $0.1384/GB in ap-south-1.

How much does ClickPipes Postgres CDC cost?

ClickHouse charges $0.10 per GB for the initial load or a resync, then $0.20 per GB for continuous replication, plus dedicated compute per service at $0.10 an hour on Basic or $0.20 on Scale. Their documentation lists MySQL and MongoDB CDC as free in public beta and Postgres CDC as generally available with standard billing.

What is the cheapest ClickHouse Managed Postgres configuration?

$23.19 a month in ap-south-1, for 1 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 59 GB of NVMe on the memory-optimized profile. CPU-optimized at 2 vCPU and 4 GB costs more, at $30.40. Nothing in the list goes below 4 GB of RAM. Still comparing? The only rate that matters is the one you can look up. Start a Postgres whose bill you can total in advance.

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