Chroma

Lightweight open-source embedding database for prototyping RAG.

Chroma is one of 28 ai developer infrastructure in the Tool Hut catalog. Track it alongside your other AI tools, see what it costs you each month, and resurface it when you forget you're paying for it.

• vector-db
• open-source
• embeddings
• rag

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