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chroma-core/chroma

★ 29,674RustApache-2.090

Search infrastructure for AI

What it is

Our hosted service, Chroma Cloud, powers serverless vector, hybrid, and full-text search. It's extremely fast, cost-effective, scalable and painless. Create a DB and try it out in under 30 seconds with $5 of free credits. Chroma is a rapidly developing project. We welcome PR contributors and ideas for how to improve the project. Join the conversation on Discord - #contributing channel Review the 🛣️ Roadmap and contribute your ideas Grab an issue and open a PR - Good first issue tag Read our contributing guide

When to use it

Reach for chroma when you need semantic search, embeddings, scraping or turning documents into LLM-ready data — it's written in Rust and fits stacks tagged ai-agents, ai, database, rust-lang.

Category
RAG, Search & Data
Also in
AI Agents, Databases & ORMs
Stars
29,674
Forks
2,602
Last push
4 days ago
Created
2022-10-05
Open issues
979
Website
trychroma.com
#ai-agents#ai#database#rust#rust-lang

Quick start

$ git clone https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma.git

Hand it to your AI

Read https://ideas.asveas.com/r/chroma-core/chroma.md and help me add chroma-core/chroma to my project. Explain the setup steps for my stack and show the minimal code to get it working.
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FAQ

What is chroma?

chroma-core/chroma is a retrieval tool on GitHub: Search infrastructure for AI Our hosted service, Chroma Cloud, powers serverless vector, hybrid, and full-text search.

When should I use chroma?

Reach for chroma when you need semantic search, embeddings, scraping or turning documents into LLM-ready data — it's written in Rust and fits stacks tagged ai-agents, ai, database, rust-lang.

What are the best alternatives to chroma?

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Is chroma actively maintained?

chroma-core/chroma looks very actively maintained: the last push was 4 days ago (2026-11-07), with 29,674 stars and 979 open issues.

What license does chroma use?

chroma-core/chroma is published under the Apache-2.0 license. Check the repository's LICENSE file before commercial use.