Chroma vs Turso
ChromaDatabase Tools
$0.33/GiB/monthPublished price
TursoDatabase as a Service
Chroma Database Tools The open-source embedding database. | Turso Database as a Service Databases everywhere. | |
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| Overview | ||
| Category | Database Tools | Database as a Service |
| What it is | Chroma is an open-source embedding database designed for building AI applications with LLMs, providing the simplest way to store, search, and retrieve embeddings for RAG and semantic search. | Turso is a serverless, edge-distributed SQL database built on libSQL (a SQLite fork) that replicates data globally for low-latency reads, supporting database-per-tenant architectures at scale. |
| Pricing | ||
| Published price | $0.33/GiB/month Chroma prices hosted usage publicly: storage is $0.33/GiB/month, writes are $2.50/GiB, queries are $0.0075/TiB, network is $0.09/GiB, and Team adds $250/month plus usage. Free cre… | Starter (Free): 5GB storage, 100 databases, 500M row reads Developer: $4.99/month - Unlimited databases, 9GB storage Scaler: $24.92/month - 24GB storage, 2,500 active databases En… |
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Tiered plans |
| Free options | Free plan · Free trial | Free plan · Free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2022 | 2022 |
| Team size | 11-50 employees | 11-50 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | San Francisco, California |
| Featured clients | LangChain users, LlamaIndex users, AI startups | Netlify, Clerk, Drizzle |