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Firebolt alternatives
3 tools to consider instead of Firebolt, shown against it.
| Firebolt | ClickHouse Cloud | StarRocks | Apache Doris | |||||||||
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| Vendor | Firebolt Analytics, Inc. | ClickHouse, Inc. | StarRocks (Linux Foundation project; commercial backing from CelerData) | Apache Software Foundation | ||||||||
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Usage-based | Open source + paid options | Open source + paid options | ||||||||
| Free tier | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud, Self-hosted | Cloud | Self-hosted | Self-hosted | ||||||||
| Open source | Yes | No | Yes (Apache-2.0) | Yes (Apache-2.0) | ||||||||
| Best for | Teams needing sub-second, high-concurrency analytics for customer-facing applications. | Teams that want ClickHouse's performance without operating the database themselves. | Teams wanting a single fast SQL engine across both freshly loaded data and existing lakehouse tables. | Teams wanting one MPP engine for both real-time dashboards and ad hoc SQL reporting. | ||||||||
| Pricing | Compute billed per second with auto-stop/resume; storage billed per GB-month as pass-through object storage; new accounts get free trial credits.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Usage-based pricing across three tiers (Basic, Scale, Enterprise), calculated by an online calculator; Enterprise publishes example per-region compute and storage rates.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Free and open source; a commercial managed cloud version is offered separately by CelerData. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free and open source under the Apache Software Foundation; a commercial cloud version is offered separately by SelectDB. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | ||||||||
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