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
Algolia
Hosted search and discovery with ultra fast indexing, typo tolerance, vector and keyword hybrid search, analytics and Rules for merchandising across web and apps.
Pricing Free / Usage based
Category data
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Chroma
vector-dbragembeddingsmanagedopensource
Shared
search
Only in Algolia
vectorhybridmerchandisinganalyticsapi
Key Features
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
Algolia
- • Keyword and vector hybrid search with filters and facets
- • Typo tolerance synonyms and multilingual analysis
- • Rules based merchandising to boost bury and pin results
- • Recommend and AI add ons for re ranking and content discovery
- • Real time analytics for CTR AOV zero results and trends
- • Secure API keys with scopes and rate limiting
Use Cases
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
Algolia
- → Power e commerce search with dynamic facets and re ranking
- → Enable doc search in SaaS with per user keys and scopes
- → Add autocomplete and query suggestions to landing pages
- → Run A B tests on relevance and measure CTR and conversions
- → Detect zero result patterns and create content or synonyms
- → Expose recommendations and related items to raise AOV
Perfect For
Chroma
developers data engineers and platform teams building RAG search and analytics who need an OSS path and a managed cloud with predictable pricing
Algolia
product engineers search specialists and merchandisers who need fast reliable search ranking control and analytics without running infra
Capabilities
Chroma
Collections and Queries Professional
Managed Cloud Professional
Hybrid Search Intermediate
Observability and Roles Intermediate
Algolia
APIs and SDKs Intermediate
Rules and Synonyms Intermediate
AI and Recommend Professional
Analytics and A B Basic
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