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Should I use Tinybird?

The data infrastructure and tooling to ship enterprise grade analytical features faster and at a fraction of the cost - tinybird.co

Depends. Buy if you're a dev team shipping real-time, API-driven analytics features and don't want to run ClickHouse yourself. Skip if you just need dashboards — Postgres, a BI tool, or plain ClickHouse covers that.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 12 public sources; review depth is thin (19 aggregated reviews, one review site). Paid-tier pricing not evidenced.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support quality
  • Security posture

Pricing

$0

Free-forever

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes
PaidGuess: usage-based

Best for

  • Product teams shipping real-time analytics features
  • Developers embedding SQL-powered APIs in apps
  • Kafka users wanting managed real-time analytics
  • Startups avoiding ClickHouse cluster ops

Not for

  • Teams needing simple dashboards — use a BI tool
  • Apps with modest data — Postgres handles it
  • Buyers wanting SSO without Enterprise pricing
  • Ops teams wanting full database control

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Free plan caps: 10GB storage, 0.5 vCPU, 1,000 read API requests. Costs scale with usage.

medium

SOC 2 report available only to Enterprise customers — request it before purchase.

medium

Recovery point is the previous daily backup; only two days retained.

medium

Some glowing reviews are disclosed paid partnerships; seek independent operator feedback.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Only managed ClickHouse with a free-forever plan (10GB storage)
  • Event ingestion endpoint replaces Kafka/SNS plumbing for real-time streams
  • Sub-second SQL APIs over your data
  • Zero-downtime schema migrations and zero-copy branches
  • 24x7 staffed support with severity-based SLOs

Cons

  • SSO/SAML locked behind Enterprise plan
  • Backups retained for only two days
  • Only 19 aggregated public reviews — thin track record
  • Self-hosted ClickHouse offers full database control Tinybird abstracts away
  • Visible developer praise includes paid sponsorships — verify independently

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/20/2026 - 5 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR compliant; SSO/SAML Enterprise-only.

official x1review x1security x1news x2

Key stats

  • Value for money: 4/5

    Rating

  • $0

    Starting price

  • 5

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 4/5. Only free-forever managed ClickHouse; usage costs beyond
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Events ingestion endpoint praised for replacing Kafka plumbing
  • Feature depth: 4/5. Branches, zero-downtime migrations, Kafka connector, org controls
  • Support quality: 4/5. Claims 24x7 staffed support with severity-based SLOs
  • Security posture: 4/5. SOC 2, HIPAA, MFA; SSO gated to Enterprise
  • 4.3/5 User rating 19 aggregated reviews
  • Yes Free tier Free-forever managed ClickHouse
  • 10GB / 0.5 vCPU Free plan limits Plus 1,000 read API requests
  • SOC 2 Type 2 Security HIPAA, GDPR; MFA on all plans

Pricing

Free-forever

$0

  • 10GB storage
  • 0.5 vCPU compute
  • 1,000 read API requests

Paid

Guess: usage-based

  • Guess: higher compute and API limits
  • Guess: Enterprise adds SSO/SAML and SOC 2 report

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR compliant; SSO/SAML Enterprise-only.

What users say

Independent feedback is thin: 19 aggregated reviews average 4.3/5, with the events ingestion endpoint the most-praised feature.

“Tinybird's event ingestion endpoint is game changing. Instead of using Kafka or SNS, just ...”
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Full analysis

Based on 12 public sources; review depth is thin (19 aggregated reviews, one review site). Paid-tier pricing not evidenced.

Great fit for teams shipping real-time analytics APIs; overkill for simple dashboards. Free tier, but SSO costs enterprise.

Methodology

Based on 12 public sources; review depth is thin (19 aggregated reviews, one review site). Paid-tier pricing not evidenced.

Sources

  1. Tinybird homepagetinybird.co
    official
  2. Tinybird product security pagetinybird.co
    security
  3. Tinybird - Managed ClickHouse for Fast Analytics (AI Jet)aijet.cc
    review
  4. Tinybird vs ClickHouse: Serverless vs Self-Hostedfastero.com
    news
  5. Milan Jovanović sponsored post on Xx.com
    news

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