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
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.
