ClickHouse
ClickHouse is a fast open-source column-oriented database management system that enables real-time analytical reporting using SQL. ClickHouse exposes multiple interfaces - an HTTP interface for SQL queries, native TCP, MySQL and PostgreSQL wire-compatible interfaces, and a gRPC interface - and the ClickHouse Cloud management plane offers a public OpenAPI-described REST API for provisioning and managing services, organizations, members, API keys, backups, and private endpoints.
ClickHouse publishes 25 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including HTTP Interface API, Ping API, Play API, and 22 more. Tagged areas include ClickHouse, Analytics, Cloud Database, Column-Oriented, and Database.
The ClickHouse catalog on APIs.io includes 2 event-driven AsyncAPI specifications, 1 JSON-LD context, and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
ClickHouse’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, GitHub presence, engineering blog, pricing, support, and 48 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 4
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
What people ask ClickHouse 16
The questions people put to an LLM, and the jobs they hand an agent, that ClickHouse's APIs answer — each one linked to the operation that does it. Generated by API Evangelist
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Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Databases (PostgreSQL wire) | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
| Retrieval, Vector and RAG | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
| Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages) | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
| VC Portfolios (a16z, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures participation) | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
| Infrastructure-as-Code Provider Registries (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi) | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
| Stripe App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders on Stripe) | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
| Cisco DevNet Ecosystem (builders on Meraki, Catalyst, ISE, ThousandEyes, Splunk) | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
| Vulnerability Disclosure (CVE Numbering Authorities, FIRST member teams; CISA KEV exposure) | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
| OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
| Docker Hub Verified Publishers + Official Images | mixed | 55.9 | - | 2 |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 6
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 25
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
ClickHouse HTTP Interface
HTTP interface (default port 8123, HTTPS 8443) for executing SQL queries against ClickHouse. Supports SELECT via GET, mutations via POST, multiple output formats (JSON, CSV, XML...
ClickHouse Native TCP Interface
Native binary TCP protocol used by ClickHouse client libraries for maximum throughput between client and server (default port 9000).
ClickHouse MySQL Interface
MySQL wire protocol compatibility allowing existing MySQL clients and BI tools to query ClickHouse without driver changes.
ClickHouse PostgreSQL Interface
PostgreSQL wire protocol compatibility for connecting psql, JDBC and other PostgreSQL clients to ClickHouse.
ClickHouse gRPC Interface
gRPC interface defined by clickhouse_grpc.proto for efficient binary communication.
ClickHouse HTTP Interface API
The ClickHouse HTTP Interface API from ClickHouse — 1 operation(s) for clickhouse http interface.
ClickHouse Ping API
The Ping API from ClickHouse — 1 operation(s) for ping.
ClickHouse Play API
The Play API from ClickHouse — 1 operation(s) for play.
ClickHouse Replicas Status API
The Replicas Status API from ClickHouse — 1 operation(s) for replicas status.
ClickHouse API keys API
The API keys API from ClickHouse — 2 operation(s) for api keys.
ClickHouse Backup API
The Backup API from ClickHouse — 4 operation(s) for backup.
ClickHouse Billing API
The Billing API from ClickHouse — 3 operation(s) for billing.
ClickHouse Click Pipes API
The ClickPipes API from ClickHouse — 10 operation(s) for clickpipes.
ClickHouse Click Stack API
The ClickStack API from ClickHouse — 13 operation(s) for clickstack.
ClickHouse Organization API
The Organization API from ClickHouse — 9 operation(s) for organization.
ClickHouse Postgres API
The Postgres API from ClickHouse — 12 operation(s) for postgres.
ClickHouse Prometheus API
The Prometheus API from ClickHouse — 5 operation(s) for prometheus.
ClickHouse Role Management API
The Role Management API from ClickHouse — 2 operation(s) for role management.
ClickHouse Service API
The Service API from ClickHouse — 15 operation(s) for service.
ClickHouse UDF API
The UDF API from ClickHouse — 7 operation(s) for udf.
ClickHouse User management API
The User management API from ClickHouse — 4 operation(s) for user management.
ClickHouse Notifications API
The Notifications API from ClickHouse — 2 operation(s) for notifications.
ClickHouse Query API endpoints API
The Query API endpoints API from ClickHouse — 2 operation(s) for query api endpoints.
ClickHouse Saved queries API
The Saved queries API from ClickHouse — 2 operation(s) for saved queries.
ClickHouse Snapshot API
The Snapshot API from ClickHouse — 3 operation(s) for snapshot.
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Postman Collections 4
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Open Collections 5
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
ClickHouse HTTP Interface API
OPEN COLLECTIONClickHouse HTTP Interface Ping API
OPEN COLLECTIONClickHouse HTTP Interface Play API
OPEN COLLECTIONClickHouse HTTP Interface Replicas Status API
OPEN COLLECTIONClickHouse HTTP Interface
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
ClickHouse MCP Server
Remote MCP server at mcp.clickhouse.cloud requiring OAuth; 13 tools listed.
MCP SERVERAgent Skills 11
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
clickhouse-architecture-advisor
AGENT SKILLclickhouse-best-practices
AGENT SKILLchdb-datastore
AGENT SKILLchdb-sql
AGENT SKILLclickstack-otel-collector
AGENT SKILLinfra-clickhouse
AGENT SKILLinfra-postgres
AGENT SKILLclickhouse-js-node-coding
AGENT SKILLclickhouse-js-node-rowbinary
AGENT SKILLclickhouse-js-node-troubleshooting
AGENT SKILLclickhouse-managed-postgres-rca
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ClickHouse API pricing
Prices published by ClickHouse, read 2026-10-28 from clickhouse.com/pricing.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Basic | $0.2181 Per unit/ hr Includes: Up to 1 TB storage, 8-12 GiB total memory, backups every 24h retained 1 day, 1 availability zone |
| Scale | $0.2985 Per unit/ hr Includes: Unlimited storage, configurable memory, compute-compute separation, 2+ availability zones |
| Enterprise | $0.3903 Per unit/ hr Includes: Everything in Scale, plus SAML SSO, private regions, CMEK, HIPAA and PCI compliance |
| ClickHouse Managed Postgres (Beta) | from $0.125 Per unit/ hr Includes: Available in Beta on all three plans; 50% off during beta |
| Bring Your Own Cloud | Get a custom quote Includes: Deployment within your own VPC |
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Rate limits
- Cloud API key request rate: 10 requests
Billed by: compute unit / hr · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Clickhouse Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
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SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Clickhouse Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 2
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
ClickHouse Kafka Table Engine (Consumer-Side Streaming)
AsyncAPI description of the documented streaming surface that ClickHouse offers through the Kafka table engine. ClickHouse itself does NOT publish a public WebSocket, Server-Sen...
ASYNCAPIClickhouse Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Clickhouse Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
ClickHouse — asyncapi rules
SPECTRALClickHouse API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 17
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 8
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
ClickHouse API — frequently asked questions
Does ClickHouse have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 25 APIs from ClickHouse, including ClickHouse HTTP Interface, ClickHouse Native TCP Interface and ClickHouse MySQL Interface, and 22 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the ClickHouse API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 20 OpenAPI specifications for ClickHouse, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the ClickHouse API?
ClickHouse documents its authentication (http/apiKey/oauth2 · 0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Clickhouse Authentication.
How much does the ClickHouse API cost?
ClickHouse publishes its prices; its Basic plan is $0.2181 Per unit/ hr as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for ClickHouse, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Does ClickHouse have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for ClickHouse: Remote MCP server at mcp.clickhouse.cloud requiring OAuth; 13 tools listed.
Is the ClickHouse API ready for AI agents?
ClickHouse has a Kin Score of 76.9 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 58.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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