About
Chroma is an open-source search infrastructure product for AI applications. It provides serverless search over vector, full-text, regex, sparse vector, and metadata indexes, with support for object-storage-backed storage and query-aware tiering.
The cloud offering is aimed at developers building retrieval and search systems that need low-latency queries, multi-tenant indexing, and managed operations. The pricing page lists a Starter plan with $0/month plus usage and $5 in free credits, along with 10 databases and 10 team members.
- Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search
- Sparse vector search with BM25 and SPLADE
- Serverless object-storage-backed architecture
- 10 databases on Starter plan
- 10 team members on Starter plan
- $5 in free credits
- Usage-based cloud pricing
- Apache 2.0 open-source codebase
Free Tier Value
Chroma’s pricing page shows a Starter plan at $0/month plus usage, with $5 in free credits, 10 databases, 10 team members, and Community Slack. Per the free_credit rule, the conservative monthly free-tier value is credit_amount/3, so $5/3 = $1.67 per month. This is a usage-based free credit offer rather than an always-free unbounded tier, and the free tier appears to include the core Starter-plan access described on the page.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to the Starter plan at $0/month plus usage-based pricing.
- Includes $5 in free credits for the Starter plan.
- Supports up to 10 databases on the free Starter plan.
- Includes up to 10 team members on the free Starter plan.
- Provides access to the Community Slack on the free Starter plan.
See Chroma pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Starter
- databases
- 10
- team members
- 10
- Free credits then usage-based pricing
- Community Slack
- Get up and running quickly
Team
- databases
- 100
- team members
- 30
- $100 credits then usage-based pricing
- Slack support
- SOC II
- Volume-based discounts
Enterprise
- databases
- Unlimited
- team members
- Unlimited
- Custom pricing
- Dedicated support
- Single tenant clusters
- BYOC clusters
- SLAs
Pricing extracted from Chroma's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
