# Introducing CostBench: an open benchmark for data warehouse cost-performance

DevFeed: [Introducing CostBench: an open benchmark for data warehouse cost-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-costbench-an-open-benchmark-for-data-warehouse-cost-performance-5216.md>)

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

Author: Tom Schreiber; Lionel Palacin

Published: 2026-05-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data-platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-platforms.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>)

Tags: [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [benchmarks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarks.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [data-platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-platforms.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>)

## AI overview

CostBench is an open benchmark for comparing cloud data warehouses by performance per dollar rather than speed alone.

## Source excerpt

Introducing CostBench, an open benchmark that turns cloud data warehouse runtime and billing models into comparable performance-per-dollar results.