Chroma

Chroma is ranked #42 of 74 in database software on Freedom251. It runs on Android, API, iOS, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is a free plan. Paid plans start at $250/mo.

Chroma plans and pricing

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Starter Free Free credits then usage-based pricing 10 databases · 10 team members trychroma.com · 22 Sept 2026

Team $250/mo $250/month + usage; includes $100 credits 100 databases · 30 team members · Slack support · SOC II · volume-based discounts trychroma.com · 28 Sept 2026

Enterprise Not published Unlimited databases · Unlimited team members trychroma.com · 22 Sept 2026

Starter Free $0/month + usage; includes $5 in free credits 10 databases · 10 team members · Community Slack trychroma.com · 28 Sept 2026

Enterprise Not published Custom pricing Unlimited databases · unlimited team members · dedicated support · single-tenant clusters · BYOC clusters · SLAs trychroma.com · 28 Sept 2026

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Paid from: $250/mo

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Chroma

Purpose: Chroma is open-source data infrastructure for AI that stores embeddings and metadata and supports search and retrieval across text, images, and other modalities.
Search: Chroma supports dense, sparse, and hybrid vector search, full-text and regex search, and metadata filtering.
Open source: Chroma is licensed under Apache 2.0, and the maker says the same codebase powers its open-source database and Chroma Cloud.
Deployment: The maker says Chroma can run locally with pip, npm, or Docker, on Chroma Cloud, or in a customer’s own VPC.
Embedding integrations: Documented embedding integrations include OpenAI, Cohere, Google Gemini, Hugging Face, Jina AI, Ollama, and others.
Framework integrations: Documented framework integrations include LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Streamlit, and DeepEval.
Security: Chroma Cloud says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest and that access controls include SSO, role-based access control, and employee MFA.
Compliance: Chroma Cloud says it completed a SOC 2 Type II examination.
Enterprise deployment: Enterprise deployment options listed include multi-tenant cloud, single-tenant nodes and clusters, BYOC, and on-premises deployment.
Enterprise options: The enterprise page lists single-region, multi-region, and multi-cloud regions, active-active and active-passive replication, and AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Support: The pricing page lists Community Slack for Starter, Slack support for Team, and dedicated support for Enterprise.
Usage limits: The pricing FAQ says exceeding customer-set or Chroma-set usage limits pauses the service until the limit is changed.
Cloud performance limits: The product page lists 1 million collections per database and 5 million records per collection as technical specifications.
Price from: $250/mo

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Sources

docs.trychroma.com/docs/overview/introduction· checked 28 Sept 2026
trychroma.com/products/chromadb· checked 28 Sept 2026
docs.trychroma.com/integrations/chroma-integrations· checked 28 Sept 2026
trychroma.com/security· checked 28 Sept 2026
trychroma.com/enterprise· checked 28 Sept 2026
trychroma.com/pricing· checked 28 Sept 2026