Vector databases · RankedChroma
Chroma is a vector database · trychroma.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
pgvector is first at 35%.
Qdrant is first at 34%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Pinecone is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“excellent for getting started or small projects due to their simplicity and zero-configuration setups”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for prototyping / small apps ... Limitation: Not ideal for large-scale production workloads”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Chroma is lightweight, easy to set up, and very popular in the AI/LLM community.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose Chroma if → You're prototyping, learning, or building a small local app”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Chroma in exposed or multi-tenant production: ... Chroma has no built-in login; do not expose it directly to the internet”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Any vector system with no authentication (e.g., Chroma’s default open-source deployment).”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Chroma has emerged as one of the more problematic options, especially for production use”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Avoid for Production / Serious Scale ... Migrate away before hitting production traffic.”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Chroma, over the 110 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | 37 | View → | |
| 101 | 31 | View → | |
| 95 | 30 | View → | |
| 94 | 6 | View → | |
| 66 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → | |
| 25 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Chroma →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 95 of the 110 answers that named Chroma and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
251 of the 251 domain citations in answers naming Chroma came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 25 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 21 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 5 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 3 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page trychroma.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.