Organization

Chroma

Chroma is a data platform company headquartered in San Francisco, California2 3 4. This catalog lists 1 software project from Chroma, under licenses including the Apache License 2.0.

Documented roles: Data platform

Chroma develops the open-source Chroma database for vector, full-text, and metadata search, used for retrieval in AI applications, and sells Chroma Cloud, a hosted serverless version billed on usage.1 5 7

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Sep 29, 2026

Using this organization’s offerings

Ownership, delivery, and openness answer different questions. Publicly traded does not mean open source; privately held does not mean closed.

The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.

Key facts

Website: trychroma.com (external site: trychroma.com)
Legal name: Chroma Inc.2 3
Ownership (separate from openness): Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
Legal form: Unknown
Headquarters: San Francisco, California2 3 4
Founded: Unknown
Sectors: Data
Careers: Careers page (external site: trychroma.com)

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

The Chroma database is published under the Apache License 2.0 on GitHub; Chroma Cloud is a paid hosted service built on it.8 7 5

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.

Other products

Chroma: other products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Chroma Cloud (external site: trychroma.com)	Data platform	Hosted serverless Chroma database with usage-based pricing for writes, storage, queries, and data transfer; a free Starter plan with credits, a Team subscription, and Enterprise terms with single-tenant options.5 7	Sep 29, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

Runtimes (1)

Chroma (open-source database)SoftwareAvailability: Public

Notable documented facts

Chroma's documentation says most of its engineering effort goes to distributed Chroma and the cloud service, so the single-node open-source version may temporarily lack some features.6

What this catalog does not know

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Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.

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U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Chroma's terms of service identify Chroma Inc. and give its address for legal notices in San Francisco, California; its privacy policy gives the same San Francisco address, and its open roles are listed in San Francisco. No separate headquarters statement or regulatory filing was found, so the basis rests on these company pages.2 3 4

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

1.
Chroma - open-source search infrastructure for AI (external site: trychroma.com)
Chroma · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
Terms | Chroma (external site: trychroma.com)
Chroma · Official page · published Oct 2, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
Privacy | Chroma (external site: trychroma.com)
Chroma · Official page · published Oct 2, 2024 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
Careers at Chroma | Jobs & Open Positions (external site: trychroma.com)
Chroma · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
Pricing - Chroma (external site: trychroma.com)
Chroma · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
Open Source - Chroma Docs (external site: docs.trychroma.com)
Chroma · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
7.
chroma-core/chroma (external site: github.com)
Chroma · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026
8.
chroma-core/chroma LICENSE (external site: github.com)
Chroma · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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USASI. (2026, September 29). Chroma. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/chroma/

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@misc{usasi_chroma,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Chroma},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/chroma/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-09-29}
}

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