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Chroma

Open-source embedding database built for AI applications.

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What is Chroma?

Chroma is an open-source vector/embedding database designed to be simple to run locally or in production, commonly used for building retrieval-augmented generation applications.

Key features

  • Simple open-source embedding database
  • Easy local-to-production workflow
  • Popular for RAG application development

Pricing

Freemium

Free open-source, paid Chroma Cloud

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Chroma use cases

  • 1Storing and querying embeddings for a RAG application
  • 2Running a vector database locally during development
  • 3Deploying an embedding database to production simply

Who is Chroma for?

Developers

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