# Chroma pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Starter). Among the 7 vector databases we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** trychroma.com
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA No · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Not published
**Integrations:** LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Weights & Biases, Python SDK, TypeScript SDK, Rust SDK
**Best for:** Developer-first teams building RAG prototypes quickly with open-source tooling; Cost-sensitive workloads at scale using serverless/object-storage architecture; Python/TypeScript/Rust AI application builders
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $0 | — | custom | $0 base + usage charges. $5 in initial free credits. 10 databases, 10 team members, community Slack. Usage: Write $2.50/GiB, Storage $0.33/GiB/mo, Query $0.0075/TiB queried, Network $0.09/GiB returned. | trychroma.com |
| Team | $250 | — | custom | $250/mo base + usage charges. $100/mo in included usage credits. 100 databases, 30 team members, Slack support, SOC II compliance, volume-based discounts. Same usage unit rates as Starter. | trychroma.com |
| Enterprise | Quote-only | — | custom | Custom pricing. Unlimited databases, unlimited team members, dedicated support, single-tenant clusters, BYOC clusters, custom SLAs. Contact sales. | trychroma.com |

**Key features:** Vector, full-text, regex, metadata, and sparse (BM25/SPLADE) search in one engine; Apache 2.0 open-source with 15M+ monthly downloads and 27K GitHub stars; Serverless pricing on object storage — claimed up to 10x cheaper than in-memory alternatives; SOC 2 Type II certified (Chroma Cloud); Dataset versioning with A/B testing and rollout support.

**Plan limits:** Starter: 10 databases, 10 team members, $5 initial usage credits; Team: 100 databases, 30 team members, $100/mo usage credits included; Starter/Team: no dedicated clusters — single-tenant clusters on Enterprise only.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: https://www.trychroma.com/pricing accessed 2026-06-14. Three plans confirmed: Starter ($0 + usage, $5 free credits), Team ($250/mo + usage, $100 monthly credits), Enterprise (custom). Usage unit rates confirmed: Write $2.50/GiB, Storage $0.33/GiB/mo, Query $0.0075/TiB, Network $0.09/GiB returned. HIPAA not mentioned. SOC II mentioned on Team plan.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vector-databases/chroma/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Chroma's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vector-databases/chroma/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl