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Chroma pricing (2026)
Chroma's paid plans start at $250/mo (Team) as checked on 2026-11-01, read from Chroma's own pricing page; 3 plans. Best for Developer-first teams building RAG prototypes quickly with open-source tooling. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $250/mo (Team)
- Free tier: Yes
- Compliance: HIPAA No · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR —
- 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
As of · every figure below links to its source
Chroma plans & pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $0 | — | Custom / quote | $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 / quote | $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 | not priced monthly | — | Custom / quote | Custom pricing. Unlimited databases, unlimited team members, dedicated support, single-tenant clusters, BYOC clusters, custom SLAs. Contact sales. | trychroma.com |
Last verified 2026-11-01. 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.
Price changes
Price on record
$250/moFirst on record 2026-06-27
A new dated entry is stamped here each time the price moves — the record builds itself.
Tracked since June 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Capabilities
Integrations: LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Weights & Biases, Python SDK, TypeScript SDK, Rust SDK.
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.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Chroma cost?
Chroma's paid plans start at $250/mo (Team), and it lists a $0 plan (Starter); it has 3 published plans. Verified 2026-11-01.
What are cheaper alternatives to Chroma?
Cheaper vector databases than Chroma (entry $250/mo) include Redis Cloud at $5/mo, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search at $8/mo, Pinecone at $20/mo. Verified 2026-11-01.
Does Chroma support HIPAA?
No — Chroma's public pages state no HIPAA support. Its public pages also state SOC 2 compliance.
Does Chroma have a free plan?
Yes — Chroma publishes a free tier.
Chroma vs alternatives
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- Weaviate from $45/mo
- Supabase (pgvector) from $25/mo
- Pinecone from $20/mo
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search from $8/mo
- Redis Cloud from $5/mo
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