Chroma
Fast, serverless, and scalable infrastructure supporting vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search.
trychroma.com DiscordSoftware Development / Backend, Databases & Storage
- Monthly visits
- 107.7K
- Down18.5%MoMSep 2026
- Public revenue
- Undisclosed
- No public revenue evidence yet
- Entry price
- $250/mo
- Higher than 96% of peersNiche median $19/mo
- Launched
- 3y ago
- 2023-04-01 · Est.
Traffic
Marketing moves
Launches, search & content, referrals, promotions- Thrilled to welcome Jeff and the Chroma team to Replit! They’re pioneers in AI. They were building RAG before it was even a thing! At Replit, they’ll help solve one of the hardest problems in AI: giving agents the context and memory they
@amasad · 2026-10-23 · 463 likes · 20 reposts · 33.1K views
- Chroma is joining Replit! Together, we will build the context layer for the self-driving company. https://www.trychroma.com/blog/chroma-joins-replit
@trychroma · 2026-10-23 · 561 likes · 27 reposts · 112.1K views
- We invented a new concurrency control protocol, named Fission, for agents swarms to update shared data for Foundation. https://www.trychroma.com/engineering/transactions and includes a section on "why not Git"
@trychroma · 2026-08-27 · 110 likes · 12 reposts · 6,997 views
Launched on Show HN (12 pts · 1 comments)Launch
Package Search MCP – enable agents to search dependency source code — Hi all - Hammad here, CTO of Chroma. We’ve been working closely with teams building AI systems for the software engineering stack - autoco…
Sep 10, 2025 · 14mo agoLaunch page
Launched on Show HN (93 pts · 40 comments)Launch
Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI — Hey HN - I’m Jeff, co-founder of Chroma. In December of 2022, I was scrolling Twitter in the wee-hours of the morning holding my then-newb…
Aug 18, 2025 · 15mo agoLaunch page
Launched on Show HN (4 pts · 1 comments)Launch
Generative Benchmarking for RAG
Apr 7, 2025 · 20mo agoLaunch page
Launched on Show HN (2 pts)Launch
How to use ChatGPT and embeddings in Node.js — This is just an example [0] if you want to use embeddings with ChatGPT using langchainJS [1] and chromadb [2]. There weren't many examples…
Apr 1, 2023 · 3y agoLaunch page
Third-party reviews & case dossiers
Acquisition breakdowns, engineer reviews & open-source metrics- Post excerpt:
- This is just an example [0] if you want to use embeddings with ChatGPT using langchainJS [1] and chromadb [2]. There weren't many examples so figured I would share this incase it helps someone out. You can also switch from chromadb to whatever (hnswlib for example is dead simple and you can save embeddings to disk). I put a telegram bot as an example. Be "re
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN - I’m Jeff, co-founder of Chroma. In December of 2022, I was scrolling Twitter in the wee-hours of the morning holding my then-newborn daughter. ChatGPT had launched, and we were all figuring out what this technology was and how to make it useful. Developers were using retrieval to bring their data to the models - and so I DM’d every person who had tw
- Post excerpt:
- Hi all - Hammad here, CTO of Chroma. We’ve been working closely with teams building AI systems for the software engineering stack - autocomplete bots, PR review agents, and code assistants. One common pain point we see: these systems hallucinate about dependencies. While most companies index the primary codebase with grep, semantic search, and AST-based tool
Open Source & Self-Hosting
- GitHub Stars
- Public repo
- Forks
- —
- License
- See repository
- Primary language
- —
Traffic sources
Traffic breakdown
Channels
- Organic Search50%
- Direct32%
- Referrals8%
- Social6%
- Other4%
Countries
- India29%
- United States19%
- Italy4%
- Spain3%
- Brazil3%
Search
Domain authority —Domain registered 2022-03-23
| Keyword | Monthly volume |
|---|---|
| chroma | 107K |
| chromadb | 14.6K |
| chroma db | 7,640 |
| context rot | 4,710 |
| cromadb | 60 |
Traffic data: Vaneform
Pricing
Trial: None · Free tier included · 1 paid tier ($250) · Enterprise custom tier · Observed 2026-11-03 · Pricing page
Entry price $250/mo, Higher than 96% of peers; “Backend, Databases & Storage” median is $19/mo.View pricing benchmark
Pages & changes
Key pages
Weekly snapshots- Homewww.trychroma.com/
- Pricingwww.trychroma.com/pricing Snapshot 2026-11-03
- Featureswww.trychroma.com/products/sync Snapshot 2026-11-03
Changes
Design
Minimal Monochrome (Light canvas, airy density) featuring split copy & visual layout and pure typography & geometry visuals.
First-screen preview · click to zoom
First-screen pitch & conversion flow
“Open-source search infrastructure for AI”
Split Copy & Visual hero structure paired with start free / sign up CTA and customer / press logo strip.
Conversion path: Split Copy & Visual + Pure Typography & Geometry → Start Free / Sign Up · Trust bar: Customer / Press Logo Strip
- Category Positioning Anchor
- Customer Logo Wall
Palette · click to copy
- Typography
- 8.0
- Color & Contrast
- 7.0
- Layout & Spacing
- 8.0
- Craft & Polish
- 7.0
- Distinctiveness
- 6.0
Structure
- Fonts
- Inter
- Hero layout
- Split Copy & Visual
- Primary visual
- Pure Typography & Geometry
- Conversion CTA
- Start Free / Sign Up
- Social proof
- Customer / Press Logo Strip
- Navigation
- Full-Width Top Bar
- Theme & density
- Light · Airy
- Corners & depth
- Small Radius · Hairline borders
Preview full AI design brief (includes :root CSS variables & layout rules)Style tokens only; never copy brand names, logos, copy, or images
# Design Brief: Minimal Monochrome (with Enterprise Clean)
Monochrome palette with a single accent color, hairline dividers, and generous whitespace.
## Design Tokens
```css
:root {
--background: #f6f6f4;
--surface: #ffffff;
--foreground: #1c1c1c;
--muted-foreground: #6e6e6e;
--accent: #171717;
--radius: 4px;
--font-heading: "Inter", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
--font-body: "Inter", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
}
```
Color area ratio: Background #F6F6F4 (~62%) · Surface #FFFFFF (~16%) · Text #1C1C1C (~10%) · Muted Text #6E6E6E (~7%) · Accent #171717 (~5%). Background and surface dominate the canvas; reserve the accent color for primary buttons and active states.
## Layout & Conversion Structure
- Hero layout: Split Copy & Visual
- Navigation: Full-Width Top Bar
- Theme & density: Light · Airy
- Border radius & elevation: Small Radius; no drop shadows—separate layers with hairline borders and whitespace
- Primary visual medium: Pure Typography & Geometry
- Conversion CTA: Start Free / Sign Up · Trust bar uses Customer / Press Logo Strip
- Headline hook: Category Positioning Anchor
- Hero components: Customer Logo Wall
- Spatial layout notes: Split Copy & Visual hero structure paired with start free / sign up CTA and customer / press logo strip.
- Visual summary: Minimal Monochrome (Light canvas, airy density) featuring split copy & visual layout and pure typography & geometry visuals.
## Avoid
- Multi-stop neon gradients
- Heavy drop shadows
- More than one competing accent color
Implement the UI following the design tokens and layout specifications above: use only these color variables, and reserve the accent color strictly for primary actions and active states. Adopt only this visual style—never copy any reference product’s brand name, logo, copy, or imagery.
Questions & evidence
- How much does Chroma cost?
- Starter: Free; Team: $250/mo; Enterprise: Contact sales. Observed 2026-11-03. Check the source for current billing terms, usage limits and taxes.Source
- How much website traffic does Chroma get?
- Vaneform estimates 107.7K website visits in 2026-09. Visits can include repeat visits; this estimate measures web traffic separately from paying customers or revenue.Source
- What is Chroma and what platforms does it support?
- Chroma is catalogued under Backend, Databases & Storage: Fast, serverless, and scalable infrastructure supporting vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search.. Supported platforms: Web.
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