---
title: "chroma"
type: "tool"
slug: "chroma-core-chroma"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/chroma-core-chroma"
github_url: "https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma"
homepage_url: "https://www.trychroma.com/"
stars: 28721
forks: 2371
primary_language: "Rust"
license: "Apache-2.0"
categories: ["vector-databases", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"]
tags: ["agents", "ai", "rust", "rust-lang", "database", "ai-agents"]
updated_at: "2026-07-07T17:40:10.641847+00:00"
---

# chroma

> Search infrastructure for AI

Search infrastructure for AI

## Facts

- Repository: https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
- Homepage: https://www.trychroma.com/
- Stars: 28,721 · Forks: 2,371 · Open issues: 738 · Watchers: 136
- Primary language: Rust
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last pushed: 2026-07-07T17:22:36+00:00

## Categories

- [Vector Databases](/categories/vector-databases.md)
- [AI Agents](/categories/ai-agents.md)
- [Developer Tools](/categories/developer-tools.md)

## Tags

agents, ai, rust, rust-lang, database, ai-agents

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## README (excerpt)

```text
<p align="center">
    <b>Chroma - the open-source data infrastructure for AI</b>. <br />
</p>

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://discord.gg/MMeYNTmh3x" target="_blank">
      <img src="https://img.shields.io/discord/1073293645303795742?cacheSeconds=3600" alt="Discord">
  </a> |
  <a href="https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/blob/master/LICENSE" target="_blank">
      <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache_2.0-blue.svg" alt="License">
  </a> |
  <a href="https://docs.trychroma.com/" target="_blank">
      Docs
  </a> |
  <a href="https://www.trychroma.com/" target="_blank">
      Homepage
  </a>
</p>

```bash
pip install chromadb # python client
# for javascript, npm install chromadb!
# for client-server mode, chroma run --path /chroma_db_path
```

## Chroma Cloud

Our hosted service, Chroma Cloud, powers serverless vector, hybrid, and full-text search. It's extremely fast, cost-effective, scalable and painless. Create a DB and try it out in under 30 seconds with $5 of free credits.

[Get started with Chroma Cloud](https://trychroma.com/signup)

## API

The core API is only 4 functions (run our [💡 Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1QEzFyqnoFxq7LUGyP1vzR4iLt9PpCDXv?usp=sharing)):

```python
import chromadb
# setup Chroma in-memory, for easy prototyping. Can add persistence easily!
client = chromadb.Client()

# Create collection. get_collection, get_or_create_collection, delete_collection also available!
collection = client.create_collection("all-my-documents")

# Add docs to the collection. Can also update and delete. Row-based API coming soon!
collection.add(
    documents=["This is document1", "This is document2"], # we handle tokenization, embedding, and indexing automatically. You can skip that and add your own embeddings as well
    metadatas=[{"source": "notion"}, {"source": "google-docs"}], # filter on these!
    ids=["doc1", "doc2"], # unique for each doc
)

# Query/search 2 most similar results. You can also .get by id
results = collection.query(
    query_texts=["This is a query document"],
    n_results=2,
    # where={"metadata_field": "is_equal_to_this"}, # optional filter
    # where_document={"$contains":"search_string"}  # optional filter
)
```

Learn about all features on our [Docs](https://docs.trychroma.com)

## Get involved

Chroma is a rapidly developing project. We welcome PR contributors and ideas for how to improve the project.
- [Join the conversation on Discord](https://discord.com/invite/chromadb) - `#contributing` channel
- [Review the 🛣️ Roadmap and contribute your ideas](https://docs.trychroma.com/docs/overview/oss#roadmap)
- [Grab an issue and open a PR](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/issues) - [`Good first issue tag`](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)
- [Read our contributing guide](https://docs.trychroma.com/docs/overview/oss#contributing)

**Release Cadence**
We currently release new tagged versions of the `pypi` and `npm` packages on Mondays. Hotfixes go out at any time during the week.

## License

[Apache 2.0](./LICENSE)
```

---

**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/chroma-core-chroma`](/api/graphcanon/tools/chroma-core-chroma)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

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