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Chroma

Open-source search infrastructure for AI

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Overview

What Chroma does

Serverless vector and full-text search database built on object storage for AI applications.

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Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Chroma.

  • Chroma Cloud meters four separate dimensions: $2.50 per GiB written, $0.33 per GiB stored monthly, $0.0075 per TiB queried, and $0.09 per GiB returned over the network, as of August 2026.

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