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Chroma vs Zilliz Cloud

Chroma or Zilliz Cloud? 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

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

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

Zilliz Cloud

Managed Milvus cloud service for building vector search, retrieval, and AI applications.

Plans

Free

Free

  • 5 GB storage
  • 2.5M vCUs per month included
  • Up to 5 collections
  • Community support: Slack invite link

Standard

  • From $0 /month (Serverless)
  • From $126 /GB/month (Dedicated)
  • From $63 per million vectors / month
  • From $16 per million vectors / month
  • From $5 per million vectors / month
  • Fully managed vector databases with core APIs
  • Backup, restore, and basic monitoring
  • Built-in encryption for data in transit and at rest
  • Community support: Slack invite link

Enterprise

  • From $197 /month (Dedicated)
  • 99.95% uptime SLA
  • Audit logs, SSO (SAML 2.0 based), granular RBAC
  • Multi-replica and elastic scaling
  • Private endpoint and VPC peering
  • On-demand Enterprise support included

Business Critical

Price on request

  • Global cluster with high-level availability and disaster recovery
  • Advanced security: CMEK and full-path in-transit encryption (edge TLS + internal)
  • HIPAA-eligible with enhanced data privacy features
  • Priority support and rapid incident response

Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Self-hosted — “Deploy on your infrastructure of choice” source
  • API — “Intuitive RESTful APIs for control and data plane operations” source
  • Official SDKs — “Python, Java, Go, and Node.js SDKs” source
  • Search over your data — “Store, index, and manage massive embedding vectors generated by deep neural networks and other machine learning (ML) models.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type II” source
  • SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type II” source
  • ISO 27001 — “ISO/IEC 27001” source
  • GDPR — “Privacy protections for EU and EEA data.” source
  • HIPAA — “U.S privacy regulation safeguarding health information.” source

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