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Chroma vs Weaviate

Chroma or Weaviate? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In inglese

In short

  • Both: Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Official SDKs, Builds agents and workflows, Search over your data
  • Only Chroma states: Knows the whole codebase, Command line
  • Only Weaviate states: Runs models for you

Chroma

Open-source infrastructure for storing, indexing, and searching data for AI applications.

Plans

Starter

Free

  • 10 databases
  • 10 team members
  • Community Slack

Team

  • $250 /month
  • 100 databases
  • 30 team members
  • Slack support
  • SOC II
  • Volume-based discounts

Enterprise

Price on request

  • Unlimited databases
  • Unlimited team members
  • Dedicated support
  • Single tenant clusters
  • BYOC clusters
  • SLAs

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Knows the whole codebase — “Index codebases to power coding agents using AST-aware chunking.” source
  • Command line — “Command-line tools for development” source
  • Choice of models — “Use any embedding model. OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face, sentence-transformers, and more.” source
  • Self-hosted — “Run it locally, self-host, or use Chroma Cloud for a managed, serverless experience.” source
  • API — “Schema() and Search() APIs” source
  • Official SDKs — “Create a self-hosted or cloud database and add data to it using the Chroma SDK.” source
  • Builds agents and workflows — “Build agents that iteratively search and refine results for complex queries.” source
  • Search over your data — “store embeddings with metadata, search with dense and sparse vectors, filter by metadata, and retrieve across text, images, and more.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “Our security program has been independently assessed through a SOC 2 Type II examination, validating the design of our security controls.” source
  • SOC 2 — “Our security program has been independently assessed through a SOC 2 Type II examination, validating the design of our security controls.” source
About Chroma

Weaviate

Weaviate is an open-source AI database for storing, searching, and retrieving vectorized data in self-hosted or managed deployments.

Plans

Free

Free

  • Always free — 1 cluster per user
  • 100,000 objects · 1 GB memory · 10 GB disk
  • 1 collection, up to 3 tenants
  • Embeddings (2,000 req/day) + Query Agent (1,000 req/mo)
  • Basic Support

Flex

  • Starts at $45 /mo
  • Pay-as-you-go, monthly, no commitment
  • Shared cloud cluster with full core DB toolkit + replication
  • Baseline security with RBAC
  • Highly available clusters — 99.5% uptime
  • Query Agent free tier + usage-based; Embeddings usage-based
  • Standard support — next-business-day Sev 1

Premium

Price on request

  • Prepaid contract with predictable spend
  • Choice of shared or dedicated deployment
  • Trusted reliability — up to 99.95% uptime
  • Global coverage on AWS, GCP & Azure
  • Query Agent free tier + usage-based; Embeddings usage-based
  • Enterprise support — as fast as 1-hour Sev 1 + dedicated Technical Account Team

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “Seamlessly connect your data with models from a range of providers.” source
  • Self-hosted — “Weaviate’s open source AI database can be self-hosted or run as a managed service in Weaviate Cloud to reduce operational overhead.” source
  • API — “Use SDKs for Python, Go, TypeScript, or JavaScript, or connect to GraphQL or REST APIs.” source
  • Official SDKs — “Use SDKs for Python, Go, TypeScript, or JavaScript, or connect to GraphQL or REST APIs.” source
  • Runs models for you — “Access embedding models hosted in Weaviate Cloud. Simple, pay-as-you-go, GPU-powered.” source
  • Builds agents and workflows — “Pre-built agentic workflows that dynamically interact with your data in Weaviate to perform sync, async, and multi-step tasks.” source
  • Search over your data — “Store, index, and search high-dimensional vectors at any scale. The foundation for search, RAG, and agents.” source

Security

  • HIPAA — “Stay compliant with SOC 2, HIPAA, data privacy, and explainability.” source

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