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Chroma vs Milvus
Chroma or Milvus? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Only Chroma states: Knows the whole codebase, Command line, Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Official SDKs, Builds agents and workflows, Search over your data
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
Milvus
Open-source vector database for similarity search, hybrid retrieval, metadata filtering, and AI application data.
Plans
Milvus (Open Source)
Free
- 100% free open-source project under Apache License 2.0
- Self-hosted deployments (Lite, Standalone, Distributed)
- No usage limits from the software itself (hardware-dependent)
Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.
Latest updates
- milvus-3.0.2 (v3.0.2)
Milvus v3.0.2 improves filtered search, group-by, and index-building performance and adds external collection and Storage V2 support.
- milvus-2.6.24 (v2.6.24)
Milvus v2.6.24 reduces peak memory during segment loading and improves force-merge planning and filtered search.
- pkg/v3.0.2 (v3.0.2)
Snapshot restores targeting the same collection are now serialized.