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Tinybird vs ClickHouse

Tinybird and ClickHouse both land on Depends.

Tinybird versus ClickHouse
CompareTinybirdClickHouse
VerdictDependsDepends
Best forProduct teams shipping real-time analytics featuresReal-time analytics on billions of rows
Who it's not forTeams needing simple dashboards . use a BI toolSmall apps needing a simple CRUD database
PrivacyNo known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.²Active project with a public security changelog; several CVEs disclosed over the years, including RCE and SSRF issues.15
Support qualityClaims 24x7 staffed support with severity-based SLOsSupport program exists but no quality evidence
Public sentimentIndependent feedback is thin: 19 aggregated reviews average 4.3/5, with the events ingestion endpoint the most-praised feature.³Users overwhelmingly praise speed, stability, and cost, while flagging operational complexity at extreme scale and thin GUI tooling.⁷
Biggest gotchaFree plan caps: 10GB storage, 0.5 vCPU, 1,000 read API requests. Costs scale with usage.¹Cloud pricing separates compute and storage; heavy ingest drives costs up16

Pick Tinybird when

  • 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

When Tinybird is not a fit

  • 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

Pick ClickHouse when

  • Real-time analytics on billions of rows
  • Observability and log analytics at scale
  • User-facing embedded analytics
  • SQL-fluent data teams

When ClickHouse is not a fit

  • Small apps needing a simple CRUD database
  • Teams with no dedicated data or ops engineers
  • Transactional (OLTP) workloads
  • Anyone wanting spreadsheet-grade reporting

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
  6. ClickHouse Cloud Reviews & Ratings 2026gartner.com
    review
  7. Is Clickhouse a good choice? . r/dataengineeringreddit.com
    review
  8. ClickHouse at PB Scale: Drawbacks and Gotchasreddit.com
    review
  9. ClickHouse tops $250M ARR and 4000 customersclickhouse.com
    official
  10. ClickHouse lands $15B valuationbloomberg.com
    news
  11. 7 RCE and DoS vulnerabilities in ClickHousejfrog.com
    security
  12. CVE-2024-22412 . NIST NVDnvd.nist.gov
    security
  13. ClickHouse Pricingclickhouse.com
    official
  14. ClickHouse Reviews, Pricing & Featurescheckthat.ai
    review
  15. sentinelone.comsentinelone.com
    review
  16. tinybird.cotinybird.co
    review