Chroma vs Supabase

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Chroma is the stronger AI pick in Vector Databases: it has a visibility score of 18.6 versus 5.7 for Supabase, and ranks ahead in 50% of the answers that name both.

Choose Chroma if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (18.6 vs 5.7)
AI answers describe it more positively (50% vs 18% positive)
You need SOC 2 Type II coverage
Usage-based pricing suits your budget better than flat tiers

Choose Supabase if…

You want a lower entry price ($25 vs $250)
You need SOC 2 Type 2 or ISO 27001 or HIPAA (BAA available) coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (201–500 employees)
Flat tiers pricing suits your budget better than usage-based

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 2

Metric	Chroma	Supabase
Visibility score	18.6%	5.7%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in Vector Databases	#6	#12
Share of voice	6.8%	2.2%
Mentions this run	32	11
Positive in AI answers	50%	18%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Chroma 0pp · Supabase 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Chroma leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

22.2%

10.4%

AI Mode

20.9%

5.9%

Perplexity

12.6%

0.9%

ChromaSupabase

Head to head in AI answers

6 engine answers name both brands

3Chroma ranked higher

3Supabase ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Chroma	Supabase
Best vector database for startups	AI Mode	#5	#4
Compare the leading Vector Databases platforms	ChatGPT	#6	#9
How much does a vector database cost per month?	ChatGPT	#1	#5
Is there a free vector database for small teams?	ChatGPT	#4	#2
Official website of the top vector database vendors	Perplexity	#4	#11
Where can I sign up for a vector database?	AI Mode	#10	#7

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Chroma	Supabase
Pricing model	Usage-based	Flat tiers
Entry price	Free; paid from $250 / mo	Free; paid from $25 / mo
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Open-source self-hosted, serverless managed Chroma Cloud, or Bring Your Own Cloud in the customer's VPC.	Hosted cloud in AWS regions across the US, EU and Asia Pacific, or self-hosted open source
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II	SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA (BAA available)
Support	Community support through Discord and the open-source community on the Starter plan, Slack support on the Team plan, Dedicated support and customized SLAs on the Enterprise plan	Community support (Free plan), Email support (Pro plan), Priority email support and SLAs (Team plan), 24x7 premium enterprise support and private Slack channel (Enterprise plan)
Founded	2022	2020
Headquarters	San Francisco, CA, United States	Remote-first, United States
Employees	11–50	201–500
Funding	Seed · $18M raised	Series D · $1000M raised
Best for	Developers building retrieval-augmented generation prototypes, who get a fast start locally, and teams that later need a managed or self-hosted search system.	Teams building production applications on Postgres that want auth, storage, realtime and vector search in one backend