# How the 5 major cloud data warehouses compare on cost-performance

DevFeed: [How the 5 major cloud data warehouses compare on cost-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-the-5-major-cloud-data-warehouses-compare-on-cost-performance-5209.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/cloud-data-warehouses-cost-performance-comparison>)

Author: Tom Schreiber; Lionel Palacin

Published: 2025-12-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [Amazon Redshift](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-redshift.md>), [BigQuery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bigquery.md>), [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databricks.md>), [dataset](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dataset.md>)

Tags: [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarking.md>), [bigquery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bigquery.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-data.md>), [compare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compare.md>), [comparison](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/comparison.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databricks.md>), [dataset](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dataset.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [redshift](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redshift.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [warehouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/warehouse.md>)

## AI overview

This article compares the cost-performance of Snowflake, Databricks, ClickHouse Cloud, BigQuery, and Redshift across analytical workloads containing 1 billion, 10 billion, and 100 billion rows. Using each system's real compute billing model, the benchmark concludes that ClickHouse Cloud provides substantially better value than the other systems at scale.

## Source excerpt

We benchmarked the five major cloud data warehouses at 1B-100B rows using their real billing models to measure performance per dollar. Results show how cost-performance shifts as data grows.