I wanted to note that ClickHouse Cloud results are now also being reported in the public ClickBench results: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/

Good to see transparent comparisons available now for Cloud performance vs. self-hosted or bare metal results as well as results from our peers. The ClickHouse team will continue to optimize further - as scale and performance is a relentless pursuit here at ClickHouse, and something we expect to be performed transparently and in a reproducible manner. Public benchmarking benefits all of us in the tech industry as we learn from each other in sharing the best techniques for attaining high performance within a cloud architecture

Full disclosure: I do work for ClickHouse, although have also been a past member of SPEC in developing and advocating for public, standardized benchmarks

Is lower time the right metric here? Seems normalizing per price would make a more useful metric for big data as long as the response time is reasonable

There are other responses from ClickHouse in the comments on the pricing, so I'll defer to their expertise on that topic there. Thank you for your feedback and ideas, as normalizing a price-based benchmark is an interesting concept (and where ClickHouse would expect to lead also given the architecture and efficiency)