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Chroma Db Plans Pricing

Chroma has two consumption models. The core Chroma server is open source (Apache 2.0) and free to self-host with no license fee - your only cost is the infrastructure you run it on. Chroma Cloud is the managed, serverless offering billed on usage. Cloud tiers observed on the pricing page: a Starter plan at $0/month with free credits, a Team plan with a monthly base plus usage, and a custom Enterprise plan. Cloud usage is metered on data written, data stored, data queried, and network egress rather than on a fixed per-request price.

Chroma Db Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Chroma on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 4 plans, covering free, usage, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Open Source (Self-Hosted), Chroma Cloud - Starter, Chroma Cloud - Team, Chroma Cloud - Enterprise.

Tagged areas include Vector Database, Embeddings, Vector Search, Open Source, and Plans.

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Plans

Open Source (Self-Hosted) free

The full Chroma vector database, Apache-2.0 licensed and self-hostable as a single server (default port 8000). Includes collections, records, metadata filtering, full-text and regex search, multi-modal retrieval, and the v2 REST API. No Chroma fee; bounded only by your own infrastructure.

Self-Hosted Usage (requests · month) free (self-hosted; you provide infrastructure) USD
Chroma Cloud - Starter usage

Serverless managed tier starting at $0/month with $5 in free credits, then usage-based rates. Observed limits: up to 10 databases and 10 team members. No minimum spend.

Monthly Base (subscription · month) $0 per month (includes $5 free credits) USD
Data Written (bytes · month) $2.50 per GiB written (modeled; verify) USD
Data Stored (bytes · month) $0.33 per GiB stored per month (modeled; verify) USD
Data Queried (bytes · month) $0.0075 per TiB queried (modeled; verify) USD
Network Egress (bytes · month) $0.09 per GiB returned (modeled; verify) USD
Chroma Cloud - Team usage

Managed tier with a monthly base fee plus usage, higher limits (up to 100 databases, 30 team members), $100 monthly credits, and volume-based discounts.

Monthly Base (subscription · month) $250 per month (includes $100 monthly credits; modeled, verify) USD
Usage Above Credits (bytes · month) usage-based (writes / storage / queries / network; see pricing page) USD
Chroma Cloud - Enterprise enterprise

Custom plan with dedicated support, single-tenant clusters, SLAs, and unlimited databases and members. Contact Chroma.

Enterprise Agreement (contract · year) contact sales USD

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