# ClickHouse Cloud vs. Snowflake: What drives the real-time performance-per-dollar gap

DevFeed: [ClickHouse Cloud vs. Snowflake: What drives the real-time performance-per-dollar gap](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/clickhouse-cloud-vs-snowflake-what-drives-the-real-time-performance-per-dollar-gap-5162.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-vs-snowflake-real-time-performance-per-dollar>)

Author: Tom Schreiber; Lionel Palacin

Published: 2026-09-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: comparison

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [sorting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sorting.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [sync](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sync.md>)

## AI overview

A comparison of ClickHouse Cloud and Snowflake for a continuous real-time analytics workload, examining how ingestion and pre-aggregation affect freshness, query work, latency, and cost.

## Source excerpt

ClickHouse Cloud delivered 412x better performance per dollar than Snowflake in CostBench. We trace the gap from fresh data arriving to fast answers coming back.