- vendor
- Chroma (joining Replit, announced 2026-10-23)
- whatItIs
- Open-source search infrastructure for AI with vector, full-text, and regex queries; object-storage backed.
- hosting
- both
- pricingModel
- OSS self-host free (Apache 2.0); Chroma Cloud managed tiers winding down (writes end 2026-11-22, reads end 2026-12-22)
- modelProviders
- agnostic
- stateModel
- persistent
- toolModel
- REST API + Python SDK
- includesBrowser
- false
- includesMemory
- false
- longRunning
- persistent storage
- hitlSupport
- false
- observability
- collection-level metrics
- maturity
- ga
- launched
- 2022
- notes
- 27k+ GitHub stars. Cloud GA 2025-Q3. Used by Capital One, UnitedHealthcare. On 2026-10-23 Chroma announced a definitive agreement to join Replit and a 60-day wind-down of Chroma Cloud: writes disabled 2026-11-22, reads disabled 2026-12-22. Open-source ChromaDB continues under Apache 2.0, and Replit will contribute to the project. Once Cloud reads stop, hosting should become self-host-only.
