# The end-to-end cost-performance of real-time analytics: Snowflake vs. ClickHouse Cloud

DevFeed: [The end-to-end cost-performance of real-time analytics: Snowflake vs. ClickHouse Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-end-to-end-cost-performance-of-real-time-analytics-snowflake-vs-clickhouse-cloud-5544.md>)

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

Author: Tom Schreiber; Mark Needham; Lionel Palacin

Published: 2026-06-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.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>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [low-latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/low-latency.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [webinar](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webinar.md>)

## AI overview

CostBench evaluates real-time analytics end to end by measuring continuous data ingest, query-ready data maintenance, freshness, query latency, and operating cost. The article uses this approach to compare Snowflake with ClickHouse Cloud.

## Source excerpt

Real-time analytics is more than fast queries. CostBench compares Snowflake and ClickHouse Cloud across the full path: continuous ingest, query-ready data maintenance, freshness, query latency, and cost.