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Chroma Cloud

Chroma Cloud

43/100

Serverless usage-based vector DB; pay per write, query & GiB.

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// scorecard · 43/100

verified 1mo ago
methodology →
Agent-readiness23/35
Agent registration (api_key)6/9
Public API5/5
OpenAPI spec0/9
MCP server9/9
llms.txt3/3
Reliability & performance0/15
Actively maintained
Production-ready0/4
Updated recently
Pricing6/13
Itemized public pricing6/6
Free tier / trial0/4
Free-tier generosity
Docs & DX2/12
Docs quality
Public API2/2
Quickstart / examples0/2
Security & compliance8/12
SOC 26/6
ISO 270010/2
GDPR0/2
Security / trust page2/2
Openness4/10
Open source0/6
Open / un-gated API4/4
Company maturity0/3
Company size
Years operating

// rankings · cost per standard workload

#6 in Vector Databases$29.05/ 1M vectors

Usage m1: writes $7.15 + storage $0.94 + reads $20.95 = $29.05/mo (~$22 steady)

docs.trychroma.com/cloud/pricing

// overview

Chroma provides open-source search infrastructure for AI, offering fast serverless scalable support for vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search built on object storage. It includes sparse vector (BM25/SPLADE), semantic, trigram/regex, metadata/faceted, and forking/versioning capabilities with CLI tools in Python/TypeScript/Rust. Performance features low-latency queries over billions of records with automatic tiering on S3/GCS and zero-ops scaling.

Best for: AI products and apps needing scalable multi-tenant search over large datasets

// pricing

Starter$0/month + usage
  • 10 databases
  • 10 team members
  • $5 free credits
Team$250/month + usage
  • 100 databases
  • 30 team members
  • $100 credits
  • Slack support
  • SOC II
EnterpriseCustom
  • Unlimited databases
  • Unlimited team members
  • Dedicated support
  • Single tenant/BYOC clusters
  • SLAs

// security & compliance

SOC 2 ISO 27001 GDPR HIPAA

// features

  • Sparse vector search (BM25, SPLADE)
  • Vector search
  • Full-text/trigram/regex search
  • Metadata filtering and faceted search
  • Dataset forking/versioning for A/B testing
  • CLI and SDKs (Python/TypeScript/Rust)

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