30 alternatives · from ai databases

Alternatives to Chroma

Chroma is built for AI workloads: it stores embeddings and metadata and supports dense, sparse, and hybrid vector search alongside full-text, regex, and metadata filtering. It can run locally, in Chroma Cloud, or in a customer’s own VPC, with integrations for embedding providers and development frameworks. Its free Starter plan gives way to Team at $250 per month plus usage, and usage limits can pause the cloud service until they are changed. A different database may suit…

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Vespa

Vespa is an AI search platform for online, data-driven applications, combining retrieval, ranking, machine-learning inference, and real-time serving.

Open sourceWebAPILinux

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SingleStore Helios

SingleStore Helios is a cloud database-as-a-service available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Free planWebAPILinux

Free plan

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37.9

ClickHouse Cloud

ClickHouse Cloud is a managed service for real-time analytics, observability, and AI-powered data applications.

Open sourceWebAPILinux

From $25.30 a month

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Pinecone
Pinecone is a fully managed vector database for AI workloads, available through web and API access.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS
7.8From $20 a month
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Supabase
Supabase is a backend platform built around a Postgres database, with services for authentication, file storage, realtime data, and server-side functions.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI
7.6From $25 a month
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Kinetica
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS
7.1$1.80 usage-based
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Neon
Neon is a managed, cloud-hosted PostgreSQL service for relational databases.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS
7.1$0.11 usage-based
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Weaviate
Weaviate is an open-source AI vector database for storing, indexing, and searching high-dimensional vectors.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
7.0$45 usage-based
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Qdrant
Qdrant is a vector similarity search engine and API for storing, searching, and managing vectors alongside payload data.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS
6.9Free plan
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SurrealDB
SurrealDB is a database platform with relational, document, graph, vector and time-series data built in.
Free planSelf-hosted
6.8From $0.19 a month
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Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is an open-source distributed search and analytics engine for applications involving speed, scale and AI.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
6.7From $99 a month
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OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source suite for ingesting, searching, visualizing, and analyzing data.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS
6.7Free plan
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Redis Insight
Redis Insight is a free developer tool for working with Redis through a graphical interface and command line.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted
6.7Free plan
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Vecto
Vecto converts raster images into editable SVG files, tracing logos, icons, illustrations, scans, and photos.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.7$7.99 one-time
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Tigris
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted
6.6$0.01 usage-based
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YugabyteDB Anywhere
YugabyteDB Anywhere (YBA) is a self-managed database-as-a-service for deploying and operating YugabyteDB universes.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
6.5Free plan
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SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText
AndroidiOSWebLinux
6.4
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Zilliz Cloud
Zilliz Cloud is a managed Milvus service for deploying and scaling vector search applications.
Free planWebAPI
6.4Free plan
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Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service offering PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL engines.
Free planAPI
6.3Free plan
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Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is a cloud database service that lists JSON documents, transactions, configurable consistency controls, multi-region…
Free planAPISelf-hosted
6.3Free plan
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Milvus
Milvus is a free, open-source vector database for GenAI applications, developed by Zilliz.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted
6.3Free plan
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Cloudflare Vectorize
Cloudflare Vectorize is a cloud-hosted vector database for building AI-powered applications with Cloudflare Workers.
Free planWebAPI
6.2Free plan
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KDB.AI
KDB.AI is a vector database and search engine for building AI applications with real-time data.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted
6.2Free plan
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LanceDB
LanceDB is an AI-native multimodal lakehouse for developing training datasets.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted
6.1Free plan
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turbopuffer
turbopuffer is an object-storage-native database for vector and full-text search, available through an API, self-hosted deployment, and web access.
WebAPISelf-hosted
6.1From $16 a month
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TileDB Cloud
WebAPISelf-hosted
6.0From $10 a month
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Vald
Vald is a free, open-source engine for distributed approximate nearest-neighbor search across dense vectors.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted
6.0Free plan
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Marqo
Marqo is a cloud platform for enterprise ecommerce product discovery, combining search, browsing, merchandising, recommendations, category pages, and…
WebAPI
5.9
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AlloyDB AI
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
5.8
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Vertex AI Vector Search
Vertex AI Vector Search is a vector search engine for search, recommendations, and generative AI applications.
WebAPI
5.8
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