Software Dev

Chroma

Open-source search infrastructure for AI apps that need vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search.

Category
Software Dev
Pricing
Freemium, from $250/month
License
Open source, Apache 2.0
API
Yes
Platforms
Web, CLI
Listed
Nov 9, 2026
trychroma.com
Chroma website

Overview

Chroma is search infrastructure for AI applications. It supports vector search, full-text search, regex search, and metadata filtering, and it is built for fast queries across large multi-tenant indexes.

It runs as an open-source database with serverless and cloud options, plus local development support. The tool is aimed at developers building AI apps and search-heavy products that need low-latency retrieval, dataset forking, and scalable storage on object storage.

Chroma also includes CLI tools, TypeScript, Python, and Rust support, along with enterprise features such as multi-cloud and multi-region replication, point-in-time recovery, and single-tenant clusters.

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