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Comparison

Chroma vs Zilliz Cloud

On the evidence we track, Zilliz Cloud leads this comparison with a composite score of 84/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Chroma full profile →Zilliz Cloud full profile →
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Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute70Chroma84Zilliz CloudLeader
Vioscale score70 / 100low · 45%84 / 100medium · 53%
Commits last 30d81-
Github stars28,915-
Package downloads weekly2,914,029-
Options{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}
LongFast, serverless, and scalable infrastructure supporting vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search across terabytes of data. Built on object storage and trusted by millions of developers.Fully managed Vector Lakebase services designed for high reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at scale. Purpose-built for real-time serving, iterative discovery, and batch analytics at billion-scale.
Capabilities{"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"permissive_oss","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"pre_filter"}{"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"storage_tier":"tiered","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}
PrimaryRust-
SpdxApache-2.0-
Availability{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}-
Support{"cli":true,"web":true}{"cli":true,"web":true}
Pricing{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Starter","summary":"$0/month + usage","features":["10 databases","10 team members","$5 free credits"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":2.5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0075,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.09,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Get up and running quickly. Free credits then usage-based pricing.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"databases":"10","team_members":"10"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$250/month + usage","features":["100 databases","30 team members","$100 included credits","Slack support","SOC II"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":250,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":2.5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0075,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.09,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Scale your production use cases. $100 credits then usage-based pricing.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"databases":"100","team_members":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Unlimited databases","Unlimited team members","Dedicated support","Single tenant clusters","BYOC clusters","SLAs"],"description":"For organizations prioritizing security, scale, support, and confidence.","contactSales":true}],"summary":"From free (Starter with $5 credits) or $250/month (Team). Usage-based: $0 write, $2.50/GiB storage, $0.0075/TiB query, $0.09/GiB network.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.trychroma.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T13:09:33.762Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free","features":["Shared managed environment","Basic API access"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Starting point for learning and personal projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"vCUs":"2.5M per month","storage":"5 GB","collections":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"From $0/mo (Serverless) or $126/GB/mo (Dedicated)","features":["Fully managed vector databases with core APIs","Backup and restore","Basic monitoring","Encryption in transit and at rest"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD","description":"Serverless starting price"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":126,"currency":"USD","description":"Dedicated pricing"}],"description":"Fully managed essentials for non-critical workloads. Best for prototypes and testing environments","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"From $197/mo (Dedicated)","features":["99.95% uptime SLA","Audit logs","SSO (SAML 2.0)","Granular RBAC","Multi-replica and elastic scaling","Private endpoint and VPC peering","On-demand Enterprise support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":197,"period":"month","currency":"USD","description":"Dedicated minimum"}],"description":"Enterprise-grade reliability and controls. Best for production applications","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business Critical","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Global cluster with high-level availability and disaster recovery","CMEK and full-path in-transit encryption (edge TLS + internal)","HIPAA-eligible with enhanced data privacy","Priority support and rapid incident response"],"description":"Regulated-ready with maximum resilience. Best for healthcare, finance, and highly regulated mission-critical systems","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"On-demand Compute"},{"name":"BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)"}],"summary":"Free tier + pay-as-you-go serverless/dedicated. Enterprise and Business Critical plans available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://zilliz.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:12:36.259Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}
Free tierYesYes
Modelcommercialfreemium
Price levelfreefree
Starting gbp00
TransparentYesYes
Cadence days4-
Sla pct-99.95
Status pageYesYes
GdprYesYes
Hipaa-Yes
Iso27001-Yes
Soc2YesYes

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for vector databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Vector Databases
CapabilityChromaZilliz Cloud
Deployment
DeploymentManagedManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing✓✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)--
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)--
Query
Metadata filteringPre-filter-
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)✓✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical✓✓
Storage
Quantization--
On-disk vs in-memoryDisk-backedTiered
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)✓✓
Horizontal scaleSharded / distributedSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency--
Licensing
Licence classPermissive OSSProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parentDedicated DBMSDedicated DBMS

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