# Chroma

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/chroma
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/chroma.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/chroma/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://trychroma.com
- **Slug:** chroma
- **Categories:** ai-machine-learning, cloud-infrastructure, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Chroma offers the fastest path from local prototyping to serverless production by combining ease-of-use with a scalable object-storage-based architecture.
Source: Brand's website (https://trychroma.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Chroma is an open-source data infrastructure company providing a scalable, serverless platform for vector and lexical search. It is designed to help developers build AI applications by providing a fast and efficient way to store and query embeddings and metadata.
Source: Brand's website (https://trychroma.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Chroma Open Source
  - Chroma Cloud (Serverless)
Source: Brand's website (https://trychroma.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Freemium (Free open source, usage-based Cloud)
Source: Brand's website (https://trychroma.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** AI Developers, Software Engineers, Enterprise Data Teams building LLM applications
Source: Brand's website (https://trychroma.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Weaviate
  - Pinecone
  - Milvus
  - Algolia AI Search
Source: Brand's website (https://trychroma.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.