Chroma

Name: Chroma
Author: Chroma

Embeddable open-source vector store that runs in-process for local development.

Also available as an MCP server

This page covers Chroma the product. To let an agent talk to it over the Model Context Protocol, see the ChromaDB MCP server.

Runs in-process with no server, which makes local RAG development genuinely frictionless.

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Fully managed vector database with no index infrastructure to operate.

Open-source vector database in Rust, with rich payload filtering.

Open-source vector database with built-in hybrid search and vectorizer modules.