AI Infrastructure & MLOps Freemium

Chroma

Open-source search infrastructure for vector, full-text, and metadata retrieval

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PricingFreemium
Starting price$2.50/GiB written
Free planYes
Free trialYes
APIYes
Open sourceYes
DeploymentHybrid
Last verifiedAugust 3, 2026
Overview

Tool overview

Chroma is listed under AI Infrastructure & MLOps AI tools.

Summary

What is Chroma?

Chroma stores documents, metadata, and embeddings for dense, sparse, hybrid, full-text, regex, and multimodal retrieval. Teams can run the Apache-2.0 database locally or self-hosted, use the serverless Chroma Cloud, or deploy enterprise single-tenant, BYOC, and on-prem configurations.

Best fit

Best for

Developers building retrieval, memory, and search for AI applications

Audience

Who is it for?

AI engineersApplication developersSearch teamsPlatform engineers
Recommendation

Decision note

Rebuilt from the original export under the complete V412/V411 factual-source-verification workflow. Preview only. Apply remains blocked until Failures = 0, Warnings = 0, Unmapped = 0, Missing = 0; explicit clears are reviewed; image import is disabled or V380 accepts the asset; a representative WordPress edit screen is compared with the export and proposed row; and a post-Apply zero-change Preview succeeds.

Capabilities

Key features

Dense, sparse, hybrid, and full-text search

Document, metadata, and multimodal retrieval

Python, TypeScript, and Rust clients

Local, cloud, BYOC, and on-prem deployment

Workflows

Use cases

Build semantic search

Create retrieval-augmented generation

Store agent memory

Index code and multimodal content

Strengths

Pros

  • Apache-2.0 open-source engine
  • Zero-dollar Starter platform fee
  • Broad deployment choices
Considerations

Limitations

Poor chunking, metadata, or embeddings can reduce retrieval relevance.

Self-hosted production requires security, backups, monitoring, scaling, and upgrade planning.

Cost

Pricing details

Pricing modelFreemium
Starting price$2.50/GiB written
Free planYes
Free trialYes
Pricing context

Billing options

Open source freeStarter usage-basedTeam monthly plus usageEnterprise custom
Pricing context

Pricing note

Open-source Chroma is free. Cloud Starter is $0/month plus usage with $5 in new-user credits. Writes cost $2.50/GiB, storage $0.33/GiB-month, queries $0.0075/TiB, and network return $0.09/GiB. Team is $250/month plus usage.

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Compatibility

Supported languages

  • English
Connectivity

Integrations

OpenAI

Cohere

Hugging Face

sentence-transformers

Google Gemini

GitHub Sync

Specs

Technical details

PlatformsWeb
Multilingual supportUnknown
Login requiredUnknown
Open sourceYes
LicenseApache 2.0
DeploymentHybrid
CompanyChroma Inc.
Current version1.5.9
Editions / plansFree, Basic, Professional, Organization, and Custom plans
Data confidenceHigh
Last verifiedAugust 3, 2026
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Chroma stores documents, metadata, and embeddings for dense, sparse, hybrid, full-text, regex, and multimodal retrieval. Teams can run the Apache-2.0 database locally or self-hosted, use the serverless Chroma Cloud, or deploy enterprise single-tenant, BYOC, and on-prem configurations.
Developers building retrieval, memory, and search for AI applications
The listed pricing model for Chroma is Freemium. Pricing can change, so users should verify the latest plan details on the official website.
Yes. The current profile indicates that a free trial is available.
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