# Measuring real-time performance per dollar under continuous load: CostBench's first end-to-end results

DevFeed: [Measuring real-time performance per dollar under continuous load: CostBench's first end-to-end results](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/measuring-real-time-performance-per-dollar-under-continuous-load-costbench-s-first-end-to-end-results-5218.md>)

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

Author: Tom Schreiber; Lionel Palacin

Published: 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [AI, ML & Data Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-ml-data-engineering.md>), [Amazon Redshift](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-redshift.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [bigquery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bigquery.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

## AI overview

CostBench benchmarks the cost and performance of real-time cloud data warehouses under continuous ingestion and query load. It compares ClickHouse Cloud with Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift Serverless, reporting better end-to-end performance per dollar for ClickHouse Cloud in the tested workload.

## Source excerpt

CostBench puts cloud data warehouses under continuous load. Across the complete path from fresh data to fast answers, ClickHouse Cloud delivers 412-1,996x better performance per dollar.