Chroma Pricing & Free Plan Limits

Complete pricing breakdown for Chroma including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.

Pricing score: 95/100

Is Chroma free?

Yes — the Self-Hosted (Open Source) plan costs nothing.

Free plan limits

  • Users: Unlimited
  • Storage: Limited by your hardware (RAM)
  • Single-node only, no distributed scaling, must manage operations yourself

Watch out: None for software. You pay for infrastructure if deployed beyond local development.

Plans & Pricing

Self-Hosted (Open Source)
$0.00/free

User limit: Unlimited

Storage: Limited by your hardware (RAM)

Cloud Free Tier
$0.00/free

User limit: Unlimited

Storage: $5 in free credits

Cloud Pay-as-You-Go
Free

User limit: Unlimited

Storage: Pay per usage

Enterprise BYOC
Free

User limit: Unlimited

Storage: Custom