ChromaDB
Provider 
Founded 2022
Sells To Developer, Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, Software
Ownership Venture Capital

ChromaDB is an open-source AI-native vector database for building embedding-based search and retrieval applications.
ChromaDB is an open-source vector database released under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for AI applications that require fast similarity search over high-dimensional embeddings. It supports vector search, full-text search, metadata filtering, and multi-modal data, and has accumulated over 27,000 GitHub stars and 15 million monthly downloads.
Developed by Chroma Inc., ChromaDB is available as a self-hosted library for Python and JavaScript environments, as well as Chroma Cloud, a fully managed serverless version offering Free, Pro, and Enterprise tiers. It is widely used in retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and AI agent memory systems.
| Attribute | ChromaDB | AI Memory API | Milvus, Zilliz Cloud | Pinecone — Vector Database | Qdrant Vector Database | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||||||
| Founded | 2022 | 2025 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021 | |
| Sells To | Developer, Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | Enterprise | — | |
| Pricing Model | Recurring, Software | SaaS | Recurring, Software | Recurring, Software, Usage-based | — | |
| Ownership | Venture Capital | Privately Held | Venture Capital | Venture Capital | — |
Provider 
Founded 2022
Sells To Developer, Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, Software
Ownership Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 2025
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model SaaS
Ownership Privately Held
Provider 
Founded 2017
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, Software
Ownership Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 2019
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, Software, Usage-based
Ownership Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 2021
Sells To —
Pricing Model —
Ownership —
Embedding Model