# Chroma

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/chroma
- **Category:** Vector Databases
- **Homepage:** https://www.trychroma.com
- **Also known as:** chroma
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-05T13:12:52.707Z

## Vioscale score

**70.4 / 100**, confidence 45% (low).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 100 | 0.045 | 4.5 | ✓ |
| reliability | 50 | 0.076 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 67.1 | 0.129 | 8.7 | ✓ |
| github_stars | 84.2 | 0.053 | 4.5 | ✓ |
| integrations | 0 | 0.061 | 0 | - |
| github_activity | 60.3 | 0.152 | 9.2 | ✓ |
| release_cadence | 97.8 | 0.091 | 8.9 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 45 | 0.136 | 6.1 | ✓ |
| package_downloads | 84 | 0.045 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 0.061 | 6.1 | ✓ |
| stackoverflow_activity | 0 | 0.152 | 0 | - |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-05, [verify at source](https://www.trychroma.com). Independently observed._

from $0/mo · Usage-based · Free tier

> 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.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Starter | Free | ✓ | - |
| Team | $250/month + usage | - | - |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | - | - |

### Starter

Get up and running quickly. Free credits then usage-based pricing.

**Included limits:** databases: 10, team_members: 10

- 10 databases
- 10 team members
- $5 free credits

### Team

Scale your production use cases. $100 credits then usage-based pricing.

**Included limits:** databases: 100, team_members: 30

- 100 databases
- 30 team members
- $100 included credits
- Slack support
- SOC II

### Enterprise (Contact sales)

For organizations prioritizing security, scale, support, and confidence.

- Unlimited databases
- Unlimited team members
- Dedicated support
- Single tenant clusters
- BYOC clusters
- SLAs

## About

Fast, 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.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS, Self-hosted

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Vector Databases. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Deployment** | |
| Deployment | Managed |
| **Index** | |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - |
| **Query** | |
| Metadata filtering | Pre-filter |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | ✓ |
| **Storage** | |
| Quantization | - |
| **Scale** | |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** | |
| Consistency | - |
| **Deployment** | |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✓ |
| **Storage** | |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Disk-backed |
| **Licensing** | |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS |
| **Classification** | |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://www.trychroma.com) | 2026-08-05 | 48% (low) |
| security.gdpr | yes | [link](https://www.trychroma.com/security) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |

### activity

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| activity.commits_last_30d | 81 | [link](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/pulse) | 2026-07-31 | 65% (medium) |

### adoption

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| adoption.github_stars | 28,915 | [link](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma) | 2026-07-31 | 90% (high) |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 2,914,029 | [link](https://pypistats.org/packages/chromadb) | 2026-07-31 | 60% (medium) |

### language

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language.primary | Rust | [link](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma) | 2026-07-31 | 63% (medium) |

### license

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | [link](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma) | 2026-07-31 | 99% (high) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://www.trychroma.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | commercial | [link](https://www.trychroma.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | free | [link](https://www.trychroma.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 0 | [link](https://www.trychroma.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://www.trychroma.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### release

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| release.cadence_days | 4 | [link](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/releases) | 2026-07-31 | 70% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.trychroma.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### market

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | [link](https://www.trychroma.com) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |

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