Chroma pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Starter: $0 month + usage
- Team: $250 month + usage
- Enterprise: Custom (custom)
- Worth noting: Usage-based pricing on top of plan fee. Team plan's $100 included usage does not roll over. Credit card payment for Starter and Team; Enterprise has configurable billing. Plan changes pro-rated to the calendar month.
Plans
Starter
$0 month + usage
- $5 in free credits
- 10 databases
- 10 team members
- Community Slack
Team
$250 month + usage
- $100 credits
- 100 databases
- 30 team members
- Slack support
- SOC II
- Volume-based discounts
Enterprise
Custom custom
- Unlimited databases
- Unlimited team members
- Dedicated support
- Single tenant clusters
- BYOC clusters
- SLAs
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Starter | Team | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Databases | 10 | 100 | Unlimited |
| Team members | 10 | 30 | Unlimited |
| Included credits | $5 free credits | $100 credits per month | — |
| Support | Community Slack | Slack support | Dedicated support |
| SOC II | — | ✓ | — |
| Volume-based discounts | — | ✓ | — |
| Single tenant clusters | — | — | ✓ |
| BYOC clusters | — | — | ✓ |
| SLAs | — | — | ✓ |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Write | $2.50 per GiB written | all plans (usage) |
| Storage | $0.33 per GiB per month | all plans (usage) |
| Query | $0.0075 per TiB queried | all plans (usage) |
| Network | $0.09 per GiB returned | all plans (usage) |
Chroma pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chroma | Free; paid from $250 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| Pinecone | Free; paid from $20 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Production AI applications, from solo developers and small teams to mission-critical enterprise deployments | Compare → |
| Qdrant | Contact sales | Yes | Usage-based | Developers and teams building RAG, semantic search and recommendation systems that need hybrid search and metadata filtering, either self-hosted or managed | Compare → |
| Weaviate | Free; paid from $45 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Development teams and enterprises building search, RAG and agent applications who want an open-source, production-ready vector database. | Compare → |
| PostgreSQL | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
List prices as published on www.trychroma.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.