Chroma vs Marqo
Chroma
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Marqo
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| Figure | Chroma | Marqo |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $250/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 0 |
| Spec score · Ai Databases | 9.4 (#1) | 7.4 (#26) |
| Spec score · Vector Databases | 9.4 (#1) | 7.3 (#22) |
| Spec score · Search Databases | 9.3 (#2) | 7.2 (#27) |
| Search | Chroma supports dense, sparse, and hybrid vector search, full-text and regex search, and metadata filtering. | Its search supports instant indexing, semantic relevance, typo tolerance, and multilingual comprehension. |
| Security | Chroma Cloud says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest and that access controls include SSO, role-based access control, and employee MFA. | The Marqo homepage displays a SOC 2 Type 2 badge. |
| Support | The pricing page lists Community Slack for Starter, Slack support for Team, and dedicated support for Enterprise. | Technical support requests are handled through Marqo’s support portal, and customers may designate up to four representatives. |
Plans
In their own words
Chroma
Chroma is open-source infrastructure for storing embeddings and metadata, then searching and retrieving information across text, images, and other modalities. Search options include dense, sparse, and hybrid vector search, plus full-text and regex search and metadata filtering. It can run locally through pip, npm, or Docker, on Chroma Cloud, or in a customer’s own VPC. The maker says its Apache 2.0-licensed codebase powers both the open-source database and Chroma Cloud. Documented integrations include embedding providers such as OpenAI, Cohere, Google Gemini, Hugging Face, Jina AI, and Ollama, and frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Streamlit, and DeepEval. Cloud security features include encryption in transit and at rest, SSO, role-based access control, and employee MFA; Chroma Cloud has completed a SOC 2 Type II examination. Starter is free, with 10 databases and 10 team members. Team is $250 a month plus usage and includes $100 credits, 100 databases, and 30 team members.