12 alternatives to Chroma in Vector Databases & Retrieval Infrastructure. 6 of them are tracked direct competitors.
| Company | Pricing | Open source | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chromathis pageOpen-source embedding database designed for LLM applications. | Free | Yes | Seed |
| LanceDBdirect competitorEmbedded, serverless vector database built on the Lance data format. | Free | Yes | Unknown |
| Qdrantdirect competitorOpen-source vector database written in Rust, focused on performance. | Freemium | Yes | Series A |
| Upstash Vectordirect competitorServerless vector database from the Upstash Redis/Kafka team. | Freemium | No | Unknown |
| Vespadirect competitorYahoo/Verizon-originated engine for search, recommendation, and vector retrieval. | Freemium | Yes | Unknown |
| Weaviatedirect competitorOpen-source vector database with built-in hybrid search. | Freemium | Yes | — |
| pgvectordirect competitorOpen-source PostgreSQL extension adding vector similarity search. | Free | Yes | Bootstrapped |
| Elastic / ElasticsearchWidely used search engine with vector/hybrid search support. | Freemium | Yes | Public |
| MarqoEnd-to-end vector search engine combining embeddings and retrieval. | Enterprise | Yes | Series A |
| MongoDB Atlas Vector SearchVector search built into MongoDB's managed Atlas platform. | Paid | No | Public |
| Neo4jLeading graph database, also supports vector indexes for GraphRAG. | Freemium | Yes | Series D+ |
| OpenSearchOpen-source search and analytics suite, an Elasticsearch fork, with vector search. | Free | Yes | Unknown |
| PineconeManaged vector database purpose-built for similarity search at scale. | Freemium | No | Series C |
Direct competitors are curated relationships in the index. The remaining entries share the Vector Databases & Retrieval Infrastructure category.