Anyscale
Fully managed Ray platform for building and running AI workloads with pay as you go compute, autoscaling clusters, GPU utilization tools and $100 get started credit.
Pricing Pay as you go
Category data
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Chroma
Open-source vector database with a managed cloud. Offers vector, keyword, and regex search with simple client libraries, usage-based pricing, and team plans for production apps.
Pricing Free / $250 per month
Category data
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Anyscale
raydistributedtraininginferencegpuautoscaling
Shared
None
Only in Chroma
vector-dbragsearchembeddingsmanagedopensource
Key Features
Anyscale
- • Managed Ray clusters with autoscaling and placement policies
- • High GPU utilization via pooling and queue aware scheduling
- • Model serving endpoints with rolling updates and canaries
- • Ray compatible APIs so existing code ports quickly
- • Observability and cost tracking across jobs and users
- • Environment images with Python CUDA and dependency control
Chroma
- • Open-source core with identical APIs on managed Cloud
- • Vector
- • keyword
- • and regex search for hybrid retrieval
- • Usage-based pricing with a $0 starter and team plan
- • Simple client libraries and docs for quick prototyping
Use Cases
Anyscale
- → Scale fine tuning and batch inference on pooled GPUs
- → Port Ray pipelines from on prem to cloud with minimal edits
- → Serve real time models with canary and rollback controls
- → Run retrieval augmented generation jobs cost efficiently
- → Consolidate ad hoc notebooks into governed projects
- → Share clusters across teams with quotas and budgets
Chroma
- → RAG backends for chat and agents with hybrid filters
- → Semantic search for docs
- → notes
- → and support portals
- → Product search blending vector and keywords for relevance
- → Analytics on unstructured text with metadata slicing
Perfect For
Anyscale
ml engineers data scientists and platform teams that want Ray without managing clusters and need efficient GPU utilization with observability and controls
Chroma
developers data engineers and platform teams building RAG search and analytics who need an OSS path and a managed cloud with predictable pricing
Capabilities
Anyscale
Managed Clusters Professional
Model Endpoints Intermediate
Utilization and Cost Intermediate
Enterprise Controls Intermediate
Chroma
Collections and Queries Professional
Managed Cloud Professional
Hybrid Search Intermediate
Observability and Roles Intermediate
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